Texas Baptist convention aligns with groups seeking to limit abortion | Baptist News Global

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By: Bob Allen

The Baptist General Convention of Texas joined the Texans for Life Coalition, Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops in an April 18 press conference voicing support for 15 bills before the state House and Senate seeking to restrict abortion.

“We are honored to be here with these pro-life legislators and these groups to support a culture of life in Texas and to help defend life,” Kathryn Freeman, director of public policy for the BGCT Christian Life Commission, said in the early morning press conference at the state Capitol.

Texas Moving Faster Than Supreme Court on Abortion | NewsMax

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By: Theodore Bunker

Texas’ conservative lawmakers aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court after losing a major abortion case before the highest court last year, the state legislature is looking to unleash four dozen anti-abortion bills.

“We have made tremendous gains,” Joe Pojman, head of the Texas Alliance for Life, told Politico. He added that he sees “huge progress” when looking at abortion trends.

How Texas is beating the Supreme Court on abortion | Politico

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By: Renuka Rayasam

“We have made tremendous gains,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life. He hopes that someday, perhaps under President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court will overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling upholding abortion rights. In the meantime, when he surveys abortion trends in Texas, he sees “huge progress.”

Abortion rights advocates ruefully agree they have lost ground.

“What makes Texas unique is that the clinic system was undercut so quickly,” said Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group. “Texas has taken what might have happened in a decade or more in another state and collapsed it into a year.”

Texas Senate Gives Overwhelming Approval to SB 8 | TexasInsider.org

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Establishing a state ban on the sale of fetal tissue was a key priority of Governor Greg Abbott’s LIFE Initiative, which he announced in August 2015. Senate Bill 8 also carries the support of several prominent pro-life organizations, including Texas Right to Life, the Texas Alliance for Life, the Texans for Life Coalition, and the Texas Catholic Conference.

Senate votes to ban sale of abortion-related tissue | Corpus Christi Caller Times

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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.