By: Jessica Priest
“We are saddened to learn of the passing of former State Representative Jodie Laubenberg” said Amy O’Donnell, spokesperson for Texas Alliance for Life. “As the author of HB 2 in 2013, she worked tirelessly to protect mothers and unborn children. Texas Alliance for Life was honored to work alongside her in crafting, advancing, and defending this historic legislation.”
By: Scott Simon, Olivia Aldridge
I talked to Amy O’Donnell, who represents the anti-abortion group called Texas Alliance for Life.
AMY O’DONNELL: House Bill 7 adds another level of protection, another layer of protection on, just to help ensure that we’re doing everything we can to stop chemical abortion drugs from harming women and children in Texas.
By: Alejandra O'Connell- Domenech
“It is already illegal to traffic abortion drugs in Texas under the Human Life Protection Act, and our priority remains enforcement of that and other laws,” said Amy O’Donnell, communications director for Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group.
“The revised version of HB 7 provides another tool against illegal abortion-by-mail while including vital protections for women.”
O’Donnell added that the organization supports the revised version of the bill since it now protects women’s privacy by barring the disclosure of personal or medical information in court filings and prohibits some abusers from being able to sue, including people accused of domestic violence or of impregnating a person through sexual assault.
By: Geoff Mulvihill
“We believe that women need to be protected from the harms of chemical abortion drugs,” said Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for Texas Alliance for Life, which supports the bill. “They harm women, and their intent is to harm unborn babies.”
By: Maria Mendez, Colleen Deguzman, Terri Langford
The Texas Alliance for Life earlier this week expressed support for revisions to HB 7, including those meant to protect women’s privacy and cap financial rewards for people who are not related to the person who had or sought an abortion.
“It is already illegal to traffic abortion drugs in Texas under the Human Life Protection Act, and our priority remains enforcement of that and other laws,” said Amy O’Donnell, communications director for Texas Alliance for Life. “The revised version of HB 7 provides another tool against illegal abortion-by-mail while including vital protections for women.”
By: J. David Goodman
The bill initially divided anti-abortion activists. Some were concerned that it would invite “bounty hunters” to file suits aimed at “profiting from the death of an unborn child to whom they are entirely unconnected,” said Joe Pojman, the executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, in testimony at a House hearing on Friday.
But Mr. Pojman’s group backed the final House version of the legislation after new language was inserted saying that unrelated plaintiffs would only be able to keep $10,000 — with the remaining $90,000 going to a charity of the plaintiff’s choice, as long as the person filing the lawsuit did not have a direct connection or a financial stake in it. The revised bill also does not allow suits to be brought by domestic abusers or by men who committed sexual assault resulting in a pregnancy.
“We are united,” Amy O’Donnell, a spokeswoman for Texas Alliance for Life, said of the anti-abortion advocacy groups.