By: Bayliss Wagner Minnah Arshad
The groups that advocated for the bans, however, maintain that medical exceptions to the ban protect women’s lives and health while preserving the fetuses they carry. Texas Alliance for Life in monthly news releases has highlighted that between 1 in 10 “medical-necessity” abortions have been recorded in Texas each month since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
By: Eduardo Cuevas
Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for Texas Alliance for Life, said the study’s findings didn’t come as a surprise. She said babies born with disabilities and even fatal anomalies deserve a chance at life, even if that means a newborn dies after birth from a condition doctors anticipated would be lethal. The death of a child is not easy, she acknowledged. She noted that her nonprofit offers resources for families grieving from such losses.
Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for Texas Alliance for Life, said the study’s findings didn’t come as a surprise. She said babies born with disabilities and even fatal anomalies deserve a chance at life, even if that means a newborn dies after birth from a condition doctors anticipated would be lethal. The death of a child is not easy, she acknowledged. She noted that her nonprofit offers resources for families grieving from such losses.
“In Texas, we celebrate every unborn child’s life saved. We treasure the fact that our laws are protecting women’s lives,” she said. “We don’t apologize for the fact that we don’t support discrimination against children facing disabilities or fatal diagnoses in or out of the womb. And that’s the line that we just believe should not be crossed.”
By: Camille Fine
Amy O’Donnell, spokesperson for the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, said that while the Texas penal does recognize an unborn child as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not.
“A child residing in a mother’s womb is not taking up an extra seat. And with only one occupant taking up a seat, the car did not meet the criteria needed to drive in that lane,” O’Donnell told the Dallas Morning News.
By: Madlin Mackelburg
AUSTIN – Anti-abortion advocates in Texas got nearly everything on their wish list this year as Republican leaders feuded over bathroom use and other issues geared at shoring up conservative bonafides.
Three of the twelve bills that passed during the special legislative session enacted regulations targeting abortion — amplifying the success anti-abortion advocates saw in the regular session when lawmakers adopted a sweeping proposal banning multiple procedures and further regulating providers.
By: Rick Jervis
“We’re very pleased,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life. “These were bills that were considered during the regular session but didn’t get done. We’re very grateful that the legislature may pass these bills during the special session.”
By: John C. Moritz, USA Today Network Austin Bureau
Legislation to prohibit the sale or donation of abortion-related fetal tissue won approval Wednesday in the Texas Senate with four Democrats joining the solid block of Republicans. The measure, Senate Bill 8, was offered in response to secretly recorded videos that surfaced in 2015 that purported to show a representative from Planned Parenthood in Houston trying to set up the sale of tissue resulting from abortion.