By: John Austin

Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, acknowledged that the pro-life movement’s ultimate goal is to roll back Rowe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.

“The question,” Pojman said, “is what’s the best way to do it.”

In Texas, a 2013 state law mandated heightened standards on clinics and imposed restrictions on where doctors could perform abortions.

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 overturned the law, which shuttered about half of the state’s abortion facilities.

“We’ve made huge gains” in Texas, where 21 abortion centers now remain open, Pojman said. “But abortion does remain legal.”

By: John Austin

AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers earlier this year outlawed what some term “dismemberment abortions,” but a recent legal ruling held the statute unconstitutional, saying it unduly burdens pregnant women.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is appealing the federal district court’s decision, saying in a statement that “abortion by dismemberment kills fetuses by tearing them limb from limb while they are still alive, causing the unborn victim to bleed to death.”

There’s no arguing that states have an interest in protecting human life, but opponents of banning the second-trimester abortion procedure, commonly called dilation and evacuation, say the mother’s right to safely end a pregnancy trumps the government’s interest when the fetus is not yet viable.

Although federal courts in other states have halted enforcement of similar statutes, pro-life advocates continue pressing to limit or end legal abortions altogether.

“It is part of a bigger nationwide strategy to limit access to abortion,” said Blake Rocap, legislative counsel for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas. “This is a bill that’s been passed in other states and in every state it’s been struck down.”

Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, acknowledged that the pro-life movement’s ultimate goal is to roll back Rowe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.

“The question,” Pojman said, “is what’s the best way to do it.”

By: Texas Insider Report

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — This past year, during the 2017 Session of the Texas Legislature, Texas saw yet another in a continuing string of sensational sessions on the life issue, passing six pro-life bills. This, says Texas Alliance for Life Executive Director Dr. Joe Pojman (right, with Gov. Greg Abbott,) followed a very successful pro-life session in 2015 under the leadership of Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker of the House Joe Straus.