By: BRITTNEY MARTIN
Joe Pojman, the executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said he champions the bill as a whole but fears the default denial provision will invite a legal challenge.
“It really is a question of whether this has any benefit that outweighs the risk of a constitutional challenge in federal court,” Pojman said. “And we just do not think it does.”
By: Madlin Mekelburg and Brian M. Rosenthal
However, Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, said the drama may have been counterproductive. “We fear that because of that unnecessary controversy, it sets the movement back,” he said. Pojman and others said the measures most likely to be passed this session are ones that already
By: BRITTNEY MARTIN
Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, worked with Morrison on her bill, which would allow a minor to apply for a bypass in the county where she lives, an adjacent county if her home county’s population is fewer than 10,000, or the county where the abortion clinic is.