By: Emily Brindley
Prominent anti-abortion rights advocates — including president of Texas Right to Life John Seago and founder of the Texas Alliance for Life Joe Pojman — also testified in favor of the bill.
By: Texas Alliance for Life
“Governor Abbott is absolutely right — no changes to the medical necessity exception language in the law are needed,” said Amy O’Donnell, Communications Director for Texas Alliance for Life. “These numbers continue to prove that Texas’ pro-life laws are working as Governor Abbott and the Legislature intended, saving unborn lives while allowing doctors to provide medically necessary abortions when a woman’s life or health is at risk.”
By: Jef Rouner
O’Donnell is wrong about no lives being lost. At least three women have died since the abortion ban was put in place. The latest bled to death in a Houston hospital because her doctor would not risk an abortion procedure that the hospital feared ran afoul of Texas law. Doctors who break abortion laws in Texas face 99 years in prison.
By: Jordan Boyd
“These numbers make it absolutely clear that Texas’ pro-life laws are protecting women and unborn babies in our state,” Communications Director for Texas Alliance for Life Amy O’Donnell said in a statement. “No doctor has been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for providing an abortion to save a woman’s life. No woman has lost her life for lack of an exception in the law. Misinformation suggesting otherwise spreads unnecessary fear among pregnant women and misleads the public about what our laws actually say.”
Despite its effective elimination of elective abortions, Texas still recorded 54 total abortions in 2024, which were all completed under the exceptions outlined in state statutes. That number is down from the 62 exception abortions recorded in 2023.
By: By Emily Brindley and Nolan D. McCaskill
“It’s highly illegal in Texas,” said Joe Pojman, founder and executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “It is the same offense as performing an illegal abortion in Texas.”
Legal experts have said the law isn’t so black-and-white, particularly because a number of other states have enacted shield laws that protect health care providers from other states’ abortion bans.
By: B.D. Hobbs
“To unfairly target pro-life advocates, while ignoring vandalism and violent acts against pregnancy centers in churches, and that’s not justice” said Amy O’Donnell, communications director at Texas Alliance for Life, “We’re very grateful to representative Chip Roy for seeking to protect peaceful pro-lifer’s from the weaponization of the FACE act so that they continue.”
It would be a long overdue, and welcomed change as 97% of FACE act prosecutions have been against pro-life advocates.