By: Eleanor Klibanoff
“We can see that there are doctors in Texas who clearly understand that the law allows them to intervene [perform an abortion] to save a woman’s life,” said Amy O’Donnell with Texas Alliance for Life. “Not a single woman has lost their life, and no doctor has faced any kind of prosecution, lost their medical license or faced any penalties.”
By: Jack Fink
Groups like Texas Alliance for Life though say they want to protect unborn children regardless of diagnosis and want to prevent any weakening of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban
By: Adela Uchida
But the spokeswoman for the Texas Alliance for Life maintains that is already covered in Texas’ near-total abortion ban.
“The biggest reason that we’re challenging it is because of the false assertion that our laws don’t protect women’s lives and that we need the federal government to step in,” said communications director Amy O’Donnell.
By: Isabella Bass
“We bring in host committee organizations from all over the state who partner with us,” said communications director for Texas Alliance for Life Amy O’Donnell. “This year, we had over 60 organizations from across the state of Texas who joined us in putting this event on today.”
Speakers included 40 Days for Life Director of Medical Affairs and Education and Former Abortionist Dr. Haywood Robinson, M.D., Students for Life Texas Regional Coordinator Faith Elwonger, and Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend Executive Director Jana Pinson.
O’Donnell described one of the goals of the event as being to keep pro-life legislators in office, especially during upcoming election seasons.
“One of the things that we work hard to do is to educate Texans, and that includes doctors,” O’Donnell said. “We put out a lot of information in that regard.”
By: Adela Uchida
“That’s a tall order. If we could only truly eliminate rape, we definitely have penalties in the state of Texas or for people to be brought to trial who do rape people,” said Amy O’Donnell, spokeswoman for the Texas Alliance For Life. She says they support the lack of a rape exception in the Texas ban. “We stand in support of protecting all babies, even those conceived through the act of rape, and every child no matter the circumstance of their conception is worthy of life,” she said.
By: Jessica Taylor
Amy O’Donnell with the Texas Alliance for Life says their attorneys do not believe they can ban interstate travel. She also says there’s a lot of misinformation about medical exceptions they’re working to combat.