Chairman Hughes, Members of the Committee, thank you for providing me with an opportunity to testify today in support of Senate Bill 9 authored by Senator Paxton. By way of background, I have been a practicing attorney for almost…
My name is Dr. Joe Pojman. I am the Executive Director of Texas Alliance for Life, and I and speaking for that organization in support of Senate Bill 9, the Human Life Protection Act. SB 9 is a complete ban…
This past Friday, January 22, marked 48 years since the Supreme Court’ tragic Roe v. Wade decision. That decision forbids states from doing anything meaningful to protect unborn babies before viability. Yet even under the Supreme Court’s severe limits, the…
The Texas Legislature has convened today and will meet for 20 weeks. What should the pro-life goals be? We believe that given the tremendous progress the Legislature has already made, the precedent the Supreme Court has set down, and what…
As published in Society of St. Sebastian, Bioethics in Law & Culture Fall 2020, vol. 3 issue 4 If one reads the district court decisions and the dissents in the case of In re Abbott, one might conclude that Texas…
Less than two weeks have passed since the General Election. The results have still not been finalized on the national level. We continue to wait to see how the vote counts, recounts, and legal challenges proceed in other states. We…