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Following the judge’s decision on Thursday regarding baby Tinslee, Texas Alliance for Life, which continues to work with the Texas Catholic Conference, said that “we don’t see how she could have ruled any other way.”

“This case centers around the dispute resolution process within the Texas Advanced Directives Act (TADA). We don’t see how she could have ruled any other way,” said executive director Joe Pojman.

“As we have stated previously, Texas Alliance for Life supports TADA. It is good public policy, it is constitutional, and it provides a balance between the patient’s autonomy and the physician’s conscience protection rights to do no harm,” Pojman continued.

“We are praying for the family and all involved in Tinslee’s care,” he concluded.

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Among anti-abortion conservatives, who frequently oppose any kind of “right-to-die” legislation, the 10-day rule is deeply controversial. Texas Alliance for Life, an influential anit-abortion group in the state, said in a statement that the group supports the rule as a way to find a path forward when families and doctors disagree.

But Texas Right to Life supports Trinity Lewis and called the decision to end Tinslee Lewis’ care a “death sentence.” “The 10-day rule has robbed countless patients of their right to life and right to due process,” the group added.

Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have pledged to support Trinity Lewis and an appeal to the 2nd Court of Appeals — and to argue in her favor at the Supreme Court, if necessary.

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Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, an antiabortion group that helped craft Texas’ law, said he believes Texas balances patients rights with doctors’ vows not to cause harm. He said he listened to the full court hearing in Tinslee’s case and believes the judge had no choice in her decision.

“Tinslee Lewis is terminally ill and tragically there is no chance she will recover,” he said. “The pro-life position does not mean the law must require physicians to use medical interventions that are only prolonging suffering.”

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But the pro-life group Texas Alliance for Life said that though they strongly sympathize with the baby and her family, they support doctors having the ability to decide to end treatment no longer beneficial to the patient – per the 1999 Texas Advance Directives Act, signed into law by former Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
“This law balances the family’s autonomy regarding end-of-life medical decisions with a doctor’s conscience rights to not order medically inappropriate interventions that would cause unnecessary suffering without the hope of improving their patient’s condition,” the organization said in a statement, the Star-Telegram reports.

Texas Alliance for Life’s Dr. Joe Pojman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that TAL’s stances on the issue are “not about us disagreeing with another pro-life organization.”

“This is about our support for the ethical principle behind the dispute resolution process in the Texas Advanced Directives Act,” Pojman said. “In those rare cases, when a patient is terminally ill and the medical interventions used to prolong their death are causing great pain and suffering and when no other health care provider is willing to accept a transfer, physicians should not be required to harm the patient by providing those interventions indefinitely.”

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But the doctors and nurses at Cooks Children’s who have been caring for Tinslee told the judge she is suffering and in pain. Texas Alliance for Life director Joe Pojman supports the state’s 10-day rule” and joined other pro-life groups in filing a friend-of-the-court brief last week supporting the hospital’s decision to remove Tinslee’s life support.

Pojman said his group attended Tinslee’s court hearing and listened to eight hours of testimony, including medical staff who described her condition as worsening and terminal. “We go to the mat for life every day,” he said. “But that does not mean that we want patients to suffer with medical torture merely to prolong their death.”