By: Paul Cobler
Texas Alliance for Life Executive Director Joe Pojman said his organization does not support Texans gaining the ability to initiate constitutional referendums. He argued the legislature, where the anti-abortion movement has had success in gaining political clout, is the best avenue for debating sensitive issues.
By: Olivia Aldridge
Amy O’Donnell, communications director for the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, said the group supports continued access to IVF. However, she said, the organization believes embryos created through IVF should not be discarded; it supports options like embryo adoption, wherein individuals donate embryos they don’t plan to use.
“We do believe that there is a way to protect life from the moment of an embryo’s fertilization while still allowing families the opportunity to bring forth life through the IVF process,” O’Donnell said. “It is something that we trust the Legislature is going to be looking into.”
By: Bridget Grumet
Joe Pojman, the founder and executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, is also astonished by the rise of telehealth abortion – for entirely different reasons.
“It makes no sense that any responsible doctor would send pills to a woman out of state without ever examining that person personally, and without having a license to practice medicine in Texas,” said Pojman, who also asserted that medication abortion is dangerous, despite more than 100 studies finding it to be safe and effective. “If it were happening in any other specialty of medicine, I think people would be outraged.”
By: Nick Harper
A U.S. study released last month estimates that 64,000 women and girls became pregnant from rape in states that have implemented abortion bans. The research has reignited the debate about a women’s right to choose. But anti-abortion groups in one of the most restrictive states say the data presented in the study is flawed.
By: Olivia Goldhill
“We think that timing is overdue for the Texas Medical Board to act,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group.
By: Jessica Taylor
Amy O’Donnell with the Texas Alliance for Life says their attorneys do not believe they can ban interstate travel. She also says there’s a lot of misinformation about medical exceptions they’re working to combat.