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By: Lisa Bast

“I wasn’t going to give up”

When Cooper told the doctor she and her husband were pro-life and wouldn’t consider an abortion, the doctor was taken aback at her response.

“To us, it was such a kick in the gut,” Cooper said. “She saw no value in our son’s life. She saw only his problems.”

One woman’s opinion didn’t stop Cooper from seeking medical care for her son. She arranged to have an echocardiogram and blood work to uncover more information about his condition. The echocardiogram showed a small hole in her son’s heart.

Cooper said, “I wasn’t going to give up. I found a high-risk physician who was pro-life. I also saw my regular obstetrician as well. He was more willing to allowing my husband to accompany me to appointments, which was a relief.”

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Executive Director of Texas Alliance for Life, Dr. Joe Pojman, also testified in favor of the legislation prior to its revisions, and cited data reported by the Department of Health and Human Services of the 151 abortions labeled under the “medically necessary” exception from the overturning of Roe through November 2024. Dr. Pojman stated, “No doctor has been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for any of those 151 abortions. No woman has lost her life for lack of an exception.”

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The Texas Alliance for Life celebrated as well. “We are ecstatic that the Texas Supreme Court has allowed legal protections from elective abortions for unborn babies to continue while acknowledging that doctors can perform abortions to save women’s lives,” Amy O’Donnell, Texas Alliance for Life’s Communications Director, said in an e-mailed press release. “The law can continue to save babies’ lives and, in rare and tragic cases, save women’s lives, just as the Legislature intended.”

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The other two laws set to go into effect are designed to support students who may be pregnant or have children.

Senate Bill 412 enshrines federal protections for pregnant and parenting students, while Senate Bill 459 gives parenting college students priority class registration. The bills allow students to take the time off needed for pregnancy or childbirth without discrimination.

“What we like about these bills is that it sets the table for an understanding that students who are parents face different responsibilities,” said Amy O’Donnell of Texas Alliance for Life to the Texas Tribune in May. “They have different weights on them, they have different pressures on them. They have to navigate different things than a student who is not a parent and there needs to be accommodations for them. There needs to be resources.”