By: Brooke Kushwaha
Amy O’Donnell from the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life said the public will have to wait and see before speculating.
By: Elizabeth Findell
Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, a group that is supportive of the Texas law, said the state has increased funding by $20 million to assist women who carry pregnancies to term. “Texas has vast resources to help a woman so that no woman seeks an abortion in Texas or out of state because she has no alternatives,” he said.
Mr. Pojman said at least 20 of the state’s 23 licensed abortion providers are operating, but his organization doesn’t know how many abortions are being performed.
By: Elizabeth Findell
Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, an antiabortion group that helped craft Texas’ law, said he believes Texas balances patients rights with doctors’ vows not to cause harm. He said he listened to the full court hearing in Tinslee’s case and believes the judge had no choice in her decision.
“Tinslee Lewis is terminally ill and tragically there is no chance she will recover,” he said. “The pro-life position does not mean the law must require physicians to use medical interventions that are only prolonging suffering.”
By: NATHAN KOPPEL
But Joe Pojman, the executive director of Texas Alliance for Life who was also involved in the drafting of the law, said the hospital is correctly abiding by the law’s goal of protecting the rights of an unborn child.
“I applaud what the hospital has done so far, and I would urge them to keep the mother on life-support equipment, even if she is determined to be brain dead, and to treat the unborn baby as the patient” he said.