By: ANTON CARILLO

Texas Alliance for Life Executive Editor Joe Pojman similarly commended the bill and expressed strong support for its “chemical abortion safety protocols.” Pojman highlighted the state’s need for the bill since it assures “that chemical abortions are performed under the supervision of a physician and with adequate safety protocols.”

Meanwhile, NARAL Pro-Choice America Acting President Adrienne Kimmell called the attention of SB4’s authors for allegedly “launching their attacks on abortion access from every angle imaginable.” Kimmell tagged the law an obstruction to the “fundamental freedom.”

By: Steven Ertelt

A state pro-life group also applauded the legislature for advancing the pro-life measure.

“We strongly support the chemical abortion safety protocols in SB 4,” said Texas Alliance for Life’s executive director Joe Pojman, Ph.D. “Texas needs this bill to assure that chemical abortions are performed under the supervision of a physician and with adequate safety protocols.”

Pojman told LifeNews.com that not only do abortion pills end the lives of unborn babies but they also hurt women, as dozens of women have died and thousands have been injured.

He said the need for this bill is demonstrated by the fact that chemical abortions result in a 20% complication rate for women, four-time higher than surgical abortions, according to a highly credible study published by the ACOG. Complications include incomplete abortion resulting in baby body parts or placenta remaining in the uterus, future miscarriage and stillbirth from unmanaged Rh factor, and hemorrhaging and death from undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy.

Pojman added that the number of babies losing their lives to the abortion drug is on the rise.

Ever since the Obama-Biden administration relaxed the RU-486 safety protocols in 2016, the numbers of chemical abortion abortions have rapidly increased in Texas — from 5,000 in 2014 to 28,000 in 2020, nearly a six-fold increase. Chemical abortions now account for 53% of all abortions in Texas, according to data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

“Now the Biden-Harris Administration is threatening to remove the FDA’s current in-person dispensing requirement. The physician visit is critically important for protecting the health and safety of women at abortion facilities,” said Pojman. “Even worse, activist organizations and academic institutions are promoting mail-order abortions, without any direct supervision of a physician, putting women’s very lives at risk. For example, Project SANA at the University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs brazenly advocates for ‘self-managed abortions’ while several online organizations will mail abortion pills on demand.”

By: Chloe Atkins

Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, defended the bill, saying it was necessary because the Food and Drug Administration could permanently lift the in-person dispensing requirements.

The FDA requires mifepristone, one of the two pills, to be distributed in clinics or doctors’ offices rather than prescribed and picked up at pharmacies or delivered by mail. In May, the Biden administration announced that it would review the requirements.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a group of doctors and advocates challenged the rule so patients could order it by mail. The agency temporarily eliminated the requirements on mifepristone first in July 2020, in response to a court order that was later reversed by the Supreme Court, and again in April.

“We’re strongly in support of the bill” and “we’re very happy it has passed, and we expect the governor to sign it into law very quickly,” Pojman said.

By: Micaiah Bilger

Previously, Texas Alliance for Life executive director Joe Pojman, Ph.D, said pro-abortion groups are putting women’s lives at risk by promoting mail-order abortion drugs.

He pointed to a study showing that the complication rate for abortion drugs, or chemical abortions, is four times higher than surgical abortions. Complications include incomplete abortion resulting in baby body parts or placenta remaining in the uterus, future miscarriage and stillbirth from unmanaged Rh factor, and hemorrhaging and death from undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy.

The number of babies losing their lives to the abortion drug is on the rise. Ever since the Obama-Biden administration relaxed the safety protocols for the RU-486 abortion drug in 2016, the numbers have rapidly increased in Texas — from 5,000 in 2014 to 28,000 in 2020. Chemical abortions now account for 53 percent of all abortions in Texas, according to data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.