Texas lawmakers ditch discussion on controversial bill that would make abortion murder | KUT NEWS

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By: Blaise Gainey

But HB 2197 saw recent pushback from even the state’s strongest supporters of abortion restrictions. Texas Alliance for Life — which describes itself as a “pro-life organization whose goals are to protect innocent human life from conception through natural death” — is one of them.

On Monday, the group’s X account posted a “legislative alert” advising followers to “oppose HB 2197, a bill to criminalize abortion for women— including the death penalty.”

Ahead of Tuesday’s scheduled committee hearing on the bill, Texas Alliance for Life called on individuals to submit written testimony urging lawmakers to reject the bill, which it said would “deter women from seeking help & make it harder to stop illegal abortion providers.”

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Joe Pojman, founder and executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, said his focus is on shoring up alternatives to abortion, potentially with more state funding.

Neither Seago or Pojman expect to see efforts to restrict Texans from traveling out-of-state for abortions. Pojman in particular said a travel ban would be unconstitutional.

According to Seago, while there are policies on the table to prevent minors from being taken for out-of-state abortion care without parental approval, he and other abortion opponents are not seeking to restrict adults’ travel.

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“Deaths are tragic and preventable deaths even more so,” said Texas Alliance For Life communications director Amy O’Donnell.

O’Donnell said doctors shouldn’t be confused about the law, and that even in 2021 it was clear. She said Barnica deserved a doctor who understood the law.

“They want to place blame where blame does not fall,” said O’Donnell. “Physicians have to provide the standard of care exercising their reasonable medical judgment to perform life-saving abortions before the threat to a mother’s life is imminent, and Texas law allows that.”

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Joe Pojman, director of the pro-life Texas Alliance for Life, criticized the Find Out PAC for attempting to “legislate from the bench” to push its abortion agenda after defeats in the legislature.

Referring to the abortion lobby group, Pojman told the American-Statesman in a recent interview, “They lost in the Legislature, so now they’re trying to get the court to legislate from the bench, and I think they’re misrepresenting that issue to voters. This PAC is lobbying the wrong body.”

Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Right to Life have both endorsed the Republican slate of state Supreme Court justices.

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Amy O’Donnell, Director of Communications with Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group, supports the decision.

“Texas law allows doctors to exercise their reasonable medical judgment when they are treating a pregnant patient who has a condition that presents a threat to her life, or a threat of substantial risk of impairment of a major bodily function,” she said.

Donnell acknowledged that some of the plaintiffs named in the lawsuit should have received better care.

“We do believe that when a doctor needs to intervene [perform an abortion] to save a woman’s life, that protection does need to be in place,” she said.

But O’Donnell defends the law as it stands.

“Despite what they’re saying, that the laws are confusing or that women are being harmed, the law is very clear,” O’Donnell said.