By: Charlie Butts
“Planned Parenthood has been cut $1.4 million per year from a program that does screening for breast and cervical cancer,” he says. “They have continued to be cut out of other funding for family planning funds, women’s health services funds.”
By: Rick Jervis
“Our goal is that no woman will choose to seek abortions,” says Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, who helped draft the current law. “We realize that vision is not going to be reality in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, we want to ensure women have all the information they have to make an informed decision.”
By: Brian M. Rosenthal
Together, the restrictions passed by the 2013 omnibus law known as House Bill 2 may have reduced abortions in the state by about 10,000 annually, according to a study released last summer by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project.
By: BRITTNEY MARTIN
Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, said his organization doesn’t want to discontinue the screenings but does want to cut funding to abortion providers and affiliates.
By: Brian M. Rosenthal and Mark Collette
Ken Lambrecht expected a spike in calls to his Dallas abortion clinic the day after a dozen other facilities closed across the state, but he wasn’t prepared for the surge the week after – a flood of calls, many from women desperate for help and suddenly hundreds of miles from the nearest open clinic.
By: Lisa Maria Garza
Admitting privileges allow a doctor, who is typically recognized as a staff member of a hospital, to admit a patient to that facility. It is common sense to make that a requirement for abortion providers, according to Joe Pojman, director of the anti-abortion group, Texas Alliance for Life.