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: ERIN DAVIS
“It’s unfortunate that some doctors have not given women the care that they need and that they deserve and is allowable in Texas law, but that’s not a problem with the law. That’s a problem with the doctors,” said Amy O’Donnell with Texas Alliance for Life.
By: Meredith Aldis
“There are clear exceptions for women in Texas,” Texas Alliance for Life Amy O’Donnell said.
By: Cassy Fiano-Chesser
The Texas Alliance for Life celebrated as well. “We are ecstatic that the Texas Supreme Court has allowed legal protections from elective abortions for unborn babies to continue while acknowledging that doctors can perform abortions to save women’s lives,” Amy O’Donnell, Texas Alliance for Life’s Communications Director, said in an e-mailed press release. “The law can continue to save babies’ lives and, in rare and tragic cases, save women’s lives, just as the Legislature intended.”
By: Hannah Norton
“It’s important to note, as you consider this important issue, that Texas abortion laws are currently saving unborn babies and pregnant women’s lives,” said Amy O’Donnell, the communications director for antiabortion organization Texas Alliance for Life.
By: Brooke Kushwaha
Amy O’Donnell, the communications director at the Texas Alliance for Life, asked to broaden the language to permit abortions in case of “medical necessity,” not just “emergency.”