By: Casey Claiborne
Joe Pojman with Texas Alliance for Life helped fight for the changes. “The legislature cannot protect that baby and the mother from abortion but at least the legislature can require that the remains can be treated in a humane and dignified manner,” Pojman said.
By: Rachel Glaser
The executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life says he’d prefer to see people donate to organizations that provide what he called “compassionate alternatives to abortion.” But the pro-life group has not seen an increase in donors; however, they are looking forward to the upcoming legislative session.
By: Mary Tuma
At the hearing, a stream of anti-choice speakers with Texas Alliance for Life, the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, and Texas Right to Life applauded the measure as a move toward “dignity” and “respect,” and used graphic language to describe fetal disposal. “It is unconscionable to grind and flush an unborn child … like they’re mere medical waste,” said TAL’s Joe Pojman.
By: Julie Chang
“It is unconscionable that anyone would defend the grinding and flushing of bodies of unborn babies who are victims of abortions down the drain into a city sewer system as if they were mere medical waste,” Joe Pojman with the Texas Alliance for Life testified Wednesday.
By: Marissa Evans
Joe Pojman, executive director for the Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group, said reproductive rights groups were “crying wolf” about the potential impacts on women. He said the costs would likely be minimal and partly why his group was suggesting abortion providers absorb the cost out of compassion for patients. He said the proposed rule was not about families being forced to have funerals.
“We’re talking about the difference between a landfill or cemetery for the final disposition of ashes,” Pojman said.
By: Kelsey Jukam
“It is unconscionable that anyone would defend the grinding and flushing of the bodies of unborn babies who are victims of abortion down the drain and into a city sewer system as if they were mere medical waste,” said John Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “That method of the disposition of the remains should be banned, as the proposed rules do.”