By: Reena Diamante
“Our laws allow physicians to perform life saving abortions as necessary to save a woman’s life. There’s no conflict there,” Amy O’Donnell, communications director for Texas Alliance for Life, told Spectrum News.
By: Ryan Chandler, Josh Hinkle, Kelly Wiley, Matt Grant, John Thomas
The Texas Alliance for Life, after submitting a brief to the court in support of the abortion ban, praised the ruling Friday.
“The Texas Supreme Court justices understand that their role is to look at the law and interpret it – not make the law,” Alliance for Life’s Amy O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell also said the doctors who believed they could not provide medical abortions misinterpreted the law and put their patients at risk, pointing to 81 cases in which doctors performed medical abortions through Dec. 2023 without consequences.
“Clearly, we see doctors in Texas know that they can intervene, while at the same time we hear cases where some doctors are confused about the clarity and the language of her law,” O’Donnell said. “For that reason, we are in support of the Texas Medical Board providing guidelines for doctors.”
By: Ryan Chandler, Josh Hinkle, Kelly Wiley, Matt Grant, John Thomas
The Texas Alliance for Life, after submitting a brief to the court in support of the abortion ban, praised the ruling Friday.
“The Texas Supreme Court justices understand that their role is to look at the law and interpret it – not make the law,” Alliance for Life’s Amy O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell also said the doctors who believed they could not provide medical abortions misinterpreted the law and put their patients at risk, pointing to 81 cases in which doctors performed medical abortions through Dec. 2023 without consequences.
“Clearly, we see doctors in Texas know that they can intervene, while at the same time we hear cases where some doctors are confused about the clarity and the language of her law,” O’Donnell said. “For that reason, we are in support of the Texas Medical Board providing guidelines for doctors.”
By: Jack Fink
Groups like Texas Alliance for Life though say they want to protect unborn children regardless of diagnosis and want to prevent any weakening of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban
By: Marin Wolf
“We are thrilled to see the Supreme Court of Texas allow legal protections from elective abortions for unborn babies to continue while acknowledging that doctors can perform abortions to save women’s lives,” O’Donnell said. “This is just what our Texas Legislature intended.”
By: ELEANOR KLIBANOFF
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Cox did not qualify for an abortion, even as it clarified in that ruling that a medical emergency need not be imminent to justify performing the procedure. Several groups, including the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, called on the board to add this language to the guidance, which Zaafran said they would consider.