Senate panel OKs revised version of abortion ban clarification bill. Here’s what changed. | Austin American Statesman

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By: Bayliss Wagner

SB 31’s GOP sponsors and major anti-abortion groups, such as Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Right to Life, supported the introduced versions of the bill, which said patients must face risk of death or “substantial loss of a major bodily function” but did not require that a “life-threatening condition” cause these risks, unlike current law. However, some Republicans in the Texas House objected.
“I think a lot of the pro-life community are worried that when you start making exceptions, they’ll become checkboxes to get around and get right back to elective abortion on demand,” state Rep. Mike Schofield, R-Katy, said during a House Public Health Committee hearing on HB 44 on April 7.

How the Find Out PAC, Democrats seek to break GOP’s lock on Texas Supreme Court | Austin American Statesman

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By: Bayliss Wagner

For Joe Pojman, director of anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, the Find Out PAC is barking up the wrong tree.

“They lost in the Legislature, so now they’re trying to get the court to legislate from the bench, and I think they’re misrepresenting that issue to voters,” Pojman said in an interview with the Statesman. “This PAC is lobbying the wrong body.”

Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Right to Life have both endorsed the Republican slate of state Supreme Court justices, with the latter group donating thousands per candidate, according to campaign finance reports. Pojman asserted that Texas Alliance for Life endorses based on judicial philosophy, not on the likelihood a justice will share its political beliefs.

How the Find Out PAC, Democrats seek to break GOP’s lock on Texas Supreme Court | Austin American-Statesman

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By: Bayliss Wagner

For Joe Pojman, director of anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, the Find Out PAC is barking up the wrong tree.

“They lost in the Legislature, so now they’re trying to get the court to legislate from the bench, and I think they’re misrepresenting that issue to voters,” Pojman said in an interview with the Statesman. “This PAC is lobbying the wrong body.”

Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Right to Life have both endorsed the Republican slate of state Supreme Court justices, with the latter group donating thousands per candidate, according to campaign finance reports. Pojman asserted that Texas Alliance for Life endorses based on judicial philosophy, not on the likelihood a justice will share its political beliefs.

Abortion pills by mail surge despite Texas’ bans. How long can it last? | Opinion | Austin American-Statesman

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By: Bridget Grumet

Joe Pojman, the founder and executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, is also astonished by the rise of telehealth abortion – for entirely different reasons.

“It makes no sense that any responsible doctor would send pills to a woman out of state without ever examining that person personally, and without having a license to practice medicine in Texas,” said Pojman, who also asserted that medication abortion is dangerous, despite more than 100 studies finding it to be safe and effective. “If it were happening in any other specialty of medicine, I think people would be outraged.”

Will Kate Cox’s case reframe the political debate surrounding abortion in Texas? | Austin American-Statesman

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By: John C. Moritz

Amy O’Donnell, a policy analyst and communications director for the Texas Alliance for Life, acknowledged that abortion rights activists have skillfully used the Cox case to bring the national spotlight to their cause.

Kate Cox, who sued for the right to have an abortion after learning that her fetus had a condition that is nearly always fatal, left the state to get an abortion. The state Supreme Court ruled against her.
While saying “our hearts go out to the Cox family,” O’Donnell said abortion rights organizations are using “a lot of misinformation” about whether a baby can survive trisomy 18.

“It’s incredibly important that we educate Texans and people in general, not just on the issue around trisomy 18, and the fact that that’s not always fatal, and that every life is valuable and worthy of protection,” O’Donnell said. “But also that our laws clearly allow doctors to intervene to save a woman’s life or to save her from the risk of impairment, substantial impairment of a major bodily function such as fertility.”