What will happen to IVF in Texas after historic Alabama ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’? | KUT NEWS

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By: Olivia Aldridge

Amy O’Donnell, communications director for the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, said the group supports continued access to IVF. However, she said, the organization believes embryos created through IVF should not be discarded; it supports options like embryo adoption, wherein individuals donate embryos they don’t plan to use.

“We do believe that there is a way to protect life from the moment of an embryo’s fertilization while still allowing families the opportunity to bring forth life through the IVF process,” O’Donnell said. “It is something that we trust the Legislature is going to be looking into.”

In leaked audio, Supreme Court Justice John Devine railed against “brainwashed” GOP colleagues | Texas Tribune

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By: ROBERT DOWNEN

“It was very small and fragmented — nothing compared to what it is now,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance For Life. “We were very hopeful. But there hadn’t been much accomplished tangibly at that point.”

With relatively few powerful allies or ways to spread their message, some in the movement turned their attention toward protests outside clinics. Among them was Devine, who later said that he served 34 days in jail for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic during one protest.

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Abortion pills by mail surge despite Texas’ bans. How long can it last? | Opinion | Austin American-Statesman

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By: Bridget Grumet

Joe Pojman, the founder and executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, is also astonished by the rise of telehealth abortion – for entirely different reasons.

“It makes no sense that any responsible doctor would send pills to a woman out of state without ever examining that person personally, and without having a license to practice medicine in Texas,” said Pojman, who also asserted that medication abortion is dangerous, despite more than 100 studies finding it to be safe and effective. “If it were happening in any other specialty of medicine, I think people would be outraged.”

Rape-related pregnancies and U.S. abortion ban | CGTN AMERICA

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By: Nick Harper

A U.S. study released last month estimates that 64,000 women and girls became pregnant from rape in states that have implemented abortion bans. The research has reignited the debate about a women’s right to choose. But anti-abortion groups in one of the most restrictive states say the data presented in the study is flawed.