Texas CLC backs package of pro-life legislation | The Baptist Standard

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By: Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission joined the Texas Alliance for Life, the Texans for Life Coalition and the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops in supporting what proponents call “a thoughtful package of pro-life legislation” in the Texas House of Representatives.

The bills would ban partial-birth abortions and wrongful birth lawsuits, stop state and local governments from contracting with abortion providers, regulate how the remains of an aborted fetus may be treated, increase criminal penalties for forced abortions on human trafficking victims, improve reporting of abortion complications and reclassify ectopic pregnancies to ensure their treatment is not reported as abortion.

Planned Parenthood sees brief reprieve after healthcare bill yanked | Reuters

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By: Jonathan Allen and Jilian Mincer

Abortion opponents said Republican leaders had promised for years to end federal reimbursement for Planned Parenthood, and that voters would continue to hold them to this. Before winning the presidential election in November, Trump had also promised to defund Planned Parenthood, and fought to get the healthcare bill passed.
“I’m confident the Republicans in Congress and the president will move ahead and defund Planned Parenthood,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life.
The issue “is so dear to the electorate who put the Republicans and president in office,” he said after the bill was pulled.

Planned Parenthood targets eight states’ abortion restrictions: Los Angeles Times

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By: Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Pojman doesn’t expect Planned Parenthood to make headway in the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature, whose members have already vowed to propose new abortion restrictions next year.

“If they’re looking to gut any of our substantive informed-consent laws, including the sonogram laws, or prohibitions for funding for elective abortions or other protective measures that have been passed over the last 20 years, I would call this a publicity stunt,” he said of Planned Parenthood. “None of those attempts to repeal any of those laws would have any chance whatsoever.”

New Abortion Law Forces Women In Texas To Carry Out Procedure On Their Own

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By: Michael Finn

Executive Director Joe Pojman of the Texas Alliance for Life, who is an avid supporter of the anti-abortion law in the state said that they have an objective of protecting the young human life from conception until the natural death through legal and peaceful means and by advocating compassionate alternatives to abortion.

Women Face Long Drives, Tough Choices in Post HB 2 Texas, New Study Says: Dallas Observer

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By: STEPHEN YOUNG

Women in El Paso can just go to New Mexico for an abortion, Joe Pojman, the executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, said earlier this month. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out that New Mexico does not have restrictions like Texas’. Anti-choicers, who claim that HB 2 is about protecting women from unsafe abortion practices, seem willing to send women to a state that engages in those very practices, as long as they get their way in Texas, Ginsburg said.