By: Emily Brindley
Prominent anti-abortion rights advocates — including president of Texas Right to Life John Seago and founder of the Texas Alliance for Life Joe Pojman — also testified in favor of the bill.
By: By Emily Brindley and Nolan D. McCaskill
“It’s highly illegal in Texas,” said Joe Pojman, founder and executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “It is the same offense as performing an illegal abortion in Texas.”
Legal experts have said the law isn’t so black-and-white, particularly because a number of other states have enacted shield laws that protect health care providers from other states’ abortion bans.
By: Julia James
Amy O’Donnell, communications director for the Texas Alliance for Life, said the results of the study are not surprising, as birth rates in Texas have increased after the passage of abortion bans and infant deaths would therefore increase as well.
“Losing a child is difficult, but aborting that child doesn’t take away the loss, and it robs the unborn child and family of time together, however short that may be,” she said in a statement. “The lives of babies diagnosed with fatal or life-limiting disabilities have value and worth and are worthy of being treated with dignity.”
By: Marin Wolf
“We are thrilled to see the Supreme Court of Texas allow legal protections from elective abortions for unborn babies to continue while acknowledging that doctors can perform abortions to save women’s lives,” O’Donnell said. “This is just what our Texas Legislature intended.”
By: Marin Wolf
Funding abortion alternatives
Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, is unimpressed by the fundraising totals touted by abortion funds, both in and out of Texas, when compared to the amount spent on programs that advocate against abortion, he said.
By: Marin Wolf
Amy O’Donnell, communications director for Texas Alliance for Life, said the nonprofit dedicated to protecting the “right to life” beginning at conception is acutely aware of groups that provide abortion pills to Texans.
“This is something that we proactively work to bring legislation for that would provide a deterrent for any who would wish to illegally traffic those mail-order drugs to Texas women from within our state or from another state,” O’Donnell said.