By: Charlie Butts, Billy Davis
A pro-life activist is defending a state-issued booklet in Texas that abortion clinics are required to hand out to women seeking abortions. “It does include information about the risks of abortion. Women need to know that,” insists Joe Pojman of Texas Alliance for Life.
By: Charlie Butts
“Our attorneys and our physicians are going to pour over this 100-plus-page decision, and we’ll see if it’s possible to do anything to raise the standard of care at these substandard abortion facilities,” he vows. “Their operating rooms are not even sterile – [so] we’ll see what’s possible and make recommendations when the Texas legislature meets in January.”
By: Charlie Butts
“Last spring the Texas legislature passed a bill to reform the judicial bypass process, whereby a judge can allow a secret abortion on a minor girl – 17, 16, 15 or even younger – without parental consent or notification,” the pro-life leader explains.
By: Charlie Butts
According to Pojman, there’s really no justification for giving money to Planned Parenthood because the services it offers – with the exception of abortions – are already available elsewhere. “There are thousands of other providers … of women’s health services and they’re located all across the state,” he says, “and [they] do a far better job than Planned Parenthood does.”
By: Charlie Butts
“Planned Parenthood has been cut $1.4 million per year from a program that does screening for breast and cervical cancer,” he says. “They have continued to be cut out of other funding for family planning funds, women’s health services funds.”