As Governor she has limited ability to do much about abortion, especially with the Texas Senate still majority Republican.

The AG on the other hand, can make some significant strides in how abortion laws are prosecuted. Example: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/11/04/texas-abortion-ban-democrats-nathan-johnson-gina-hinojosa/

Texas is coming out of 3 decades of Republican control; not everything can change immediately. Let's wait to see what happens as well, because "not my priority" doesn't mean "no progress".

Still leaps and bounds better than re-electing Abbott!

Edit with some details form the linked article:

Anti-abortion advocates like John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, aren’t worried about a new “standalone abortion bill” being passed this upcoming session, but he is concerned incoming Democratic leadership will turn back decades of Republican-led inroads in restricting the procedure.

He could see Hinojosa and other Dems making it tougher for programs like the former Alternatives to Abortion program, now renamed Thriving Texas Families, which sends over $200 million to private contractors to, in part, counsel pregnant women out of abortions, among other services. He said Hinojosa has consistently voted against the program and that he could see her defunding it or transferring the funding to another program.

The agency overseeing the program, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, has an agency commissioner, Stephanie Muth, whose appointment expires Feb. 1. Seago said he also fears that Hinojosa could also use her own appointment power to put someone else in charge of the agency and begin to change how those private contractors are scrutinized.