By: Bettina di Fiore
Rather, we should adopt the bold attitude of Amy O’Donnell, spokesperson for Texas Alliance for Life, who told USA Today: “We don’t apologize for the fact that we don’t support discrimination against children facing disabilities or fatal diagnoses in or out of the womb. And that’s the line that we just believe should not be crossed.”
By: Abigail Velez
O’Donnell said everyone deserves a chance at life, even if the diagnosis says otherwise, “we know that sometimes those diagnoses are wrong.”
She added, “It is heartbreaking to think that there are any families out there who abort babies based on a diagnosis that is not even accurate.”
By: Julia James
Amy O’Donnell, communications director for the Texas Alliance for Life, said the results of the study are not surprising, as birth rates in Texas have increased after the passage of abortion bans and infant deaths would therefore increase as well.
“Losing a child is difficult, but aborting that child doesn’t take away the loss, and it robs the unborn child and family of time together, however short that may be,” she said in a statement. “The lives of babies diagnosed with fatal or life-limiting disabilities have value and worth and are worthy of being treated with dignity.”
By: Eleanor Klibanoff
“We can see that there are doctors in Texas who clearly understand that the law allows them to intervene [perform an abortion] to save a woman’s life,” said Amy O’Donnell with Texas Alliance for Life. “Not a single woman has lost their life, and no doctor has faced any kind of prosecution, lost their medical license or faced any penalties.”
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: B.D. Hobbs
“Information that is incorrect” O’Donnell told KTRH, ” Information that is being perpetuated is that our laws do not take care of women, and that is simply not true. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t see fact checking. It’s just another tactic of theirs, and another area of misinformation being put forward.”