By: Sophie Novack
“It’s very clear now that [Justice Kennedy] will not uphold any state or federal provision that makes abortion less accessible, that’s the unfortunate reality,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group aligned with House leadership.
By: Newshub staff
Texas Alliance for Life spesperson Joe Pojman said the bill is about “ensuring babies are treated in a humane manner – that their bodies are not desecrated, their organs are not harvested and sold”.
By: Brianna Sacks
Texas Alliance, a group who helped draft the bill, said in a statement to BuzzFeed News that the motivation for the legislation was “to respond to the videos from the Center for Medical Progress that exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale and donation of tissues and organs harvested from the bodies of babies who died from elective abortion.”