By: Chuck Lindell
Another proposal, backed by Texas Alliance for Life, would ban abortion beginning at fertilization.
Abortion bills have produced some of the Legislature’s most hard-fought, intense confrontations for more than a decade. This year promises to be no exception.
By: Chuck Lindell
Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, testified that his organization will be pushing the Human Life Protection Act, which would set “a complete ban on abortion beginning at fertilization” if allowed by the Supreme Court.
If the high court chisels away at abortion rights, perhaps by approving Mississippi’s currently challenged law ending abortion at 15 weeks, the act would implement the 15-week ban in Texas, Pojman said.
“Texas needs a law to ban abortions to the extent allowable,” he told the committee.
Until the Supreme Court acts, heartbeat bills and other legislation to severely limit when abortions are allowed will continue to be overturned by lower courts, “saving no lives,” Pojman said.
By: James Barragán
Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life which opposes abortion, said his group was not among those criticizing Phelan, a Catholic, as too soft on conservative issues.
“We’re not part of that conversation,” Pojman said. “We think he’ll be very pro-life.”
By: Steve Warren
“I’m not surprised The City of Austin would manipulate a recently passed law (SB 22) to use taxpayer dollars to pay for transportation and lodging to those seeking an abortion,” Campbell said in an email to the Texas Tribune.
Likewise, the Texas Alliance for Life is also opposed to the budget amendment.
“There are more than 20 wonderful agencies in the greater Austin area that help a woman who has a crisis pregnancy with alternatives to abortion, including adoption,” said Executive Director Joe Pojman, Ph.D. in a press release. “We would have preferred the council spend the money to help low-income women utilize these life-affirming agencies.”
A link to those resources is available at PregnancyCentralTexas.com.
By: Laura Nicole
We believe the money should be spent differently. “There are some 23 wonderful agencies in the greater Austin area that help a woman who has a crisis pregnancy with alternatives to abortion, including adoption,” said Joe Pojman, ED for @TexasAlliance4Life.
— TexasAllianceforLife (@TXAlliance4Life) August 20, 2019
By: REENA DIAMANTE
“These organizations will provide what they need and it is far beyond birth. We have never met a woman that sought abortion as her first choice. Typically, women seek abortion because they feel they have no way out. The City of Austin is not helping them in those circumstances. What we should be doing is using taxpayer dollars to promote compassionate alternatives to an abortion,” said Pojman.