By: Jef Rouner
O’Donnell is wrong about no lives being lost. At least three women have died since the abortion ban was put in place. The latest bled to death in a Houston hospital because her doctor would not risk an abortion procedure that the hospital feared ran afoul of Texas law. Doctors who break abortion laws in Texas face 99 years in prison.
By: By Emily Brindley and Nolan D. McCaskill
“It’s highly illegal in Texas,” said Joe Pojman, founder and executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “It is the same offense as performing an illegal abortion in Texas.”
Legal experts have said the law isn’t so black-and-white, particularly because a number of other states have enacted shield laws that protect health care providers from other states’ abortion bans.
By: B.D. Hobbs
“To unfairly target pro-life advocates, while ignoring vandalism and violent acts against pregnancy centers in churches, and that’s not justice” said Amy O’Donnell, communications director at Texas Alliance for Life, “We’re very grateful to representative Chip Roy for seeking to protect peaceful pro-lifer’s from the weaponization of the FACE act so that they continue.”
It would be a long overdue, and welcomed change as 97% of FACE act prosecutions have been against pro-life advocates.
By: Daniel Perreault
“Just because you’re given a difficult diagnosis doesn’t mean that abortion is the only answer,” Cooper said.
Texas has some of the strictest abortion restrictions in the nation. Cooper, who works as a public policy analyst for Texas Alliance for Life, said she doesn’t want to see any expansion of the very narrow exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.
“We don’t want our laws weakened to allow those children to be aborted,” Cooper said. “They deserve to be protected by law, and those mothers deserve to be supported.”
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who represents Texas, was slated to be the featured speaker with top billing at the rally, but couldn’t make it in person as the Senate has been working through the weekend to vote on President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. Cornyn sent an audio message that organizers played at the rally. In it, he praised the abortion laws that are on the books in Texas.
“I can say without a doubt that Texas is the most pro-life state in the entire nation,” Cornyn said. “We have set an undeniable example of how to protect those who cannot protect themselves.”
In the early days of the 89th legislative session, there’s been a push among top Republican leaders to clarify when Texas doctors can perform abortions.
By: Ben Johnson
Pro-life advocates greeted the taxpayer-funded website’s closure with enthusiasm. “Could this be the start of Making America Pro-Life Again?!” asked Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America. “Let’s go!” enthused the Texas Alliance for Life.
The website went offline the same day news broke that Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 to 2018, died at the age of 67 from a glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. During her 12 years leading the nation’s largest abortion business, “Richards increased the number of abortions Planned Parenthood carried out each year by almost 70,000,” wrote Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council.
By: Steven Ertelt
The Texas Human Life Protection Act protects unborn children from abortion, by surgical and chemical methods, except when medically necessary to prevent the loss of the mother’s life or health. That law empowers the Texas Attorney General to bring a lawsuit against violators for at least $100,000 per violation. Texas law further prohibits the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs through courier, delivery, or mail services and telemedicine prescriptions from out-of-state doctors who do not possess a full Texas medical license.
“This case underscores the importance of protecting the health and safety of women and unborn babies in Texas,” said Amy O’Donnell, Communications Director for Texas Alliance for Life. “When an out-of-state doctor flagrantly violates our laws and endangers women’s lives, accountability is critical. Texas’ pro-life laws exist to protect women and babies, and this lawsuit is a necessary step in defending those protections.”