By: Audrey Morton
Texas Alliance for Life Executive Director Joe Pojman said while loved ones might want to interventions to be done to save the patient’s life, the opposite could happen.
“The purpose of this is so that no physician is forced by law to provide interventions that will harm or possibly hasten the death of a patient,” said Pojman.
He said the goal of the law is to get patients, families and doctors talking about end of life decisions.
Pojman said the law is very rarely used, but is to protect the conscious of medical providers.
“The district court in Houston dismissed the case because the mother really didn’t have a case that could be brought,” said Pojman.
He said multiple pro-life groups, religious organizations and disability rights groups support the law.