By: Texas Alliance for Life
Texas Alliance for Life (TAL) will present Texas Governor Greg Abbott with their prestigious award for his “Courageous Defense of Life” at their 2016 Annual Benefit Dinner. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at the Hilton Austin. As many as 1,500 people are expected to attend.
By: State Rep. Brooks Landgraf
Earlier this month, I was humbled to receive the Courageous Defense of Life award for my work on the Down Syndrome Information Act from the pro-life advocacy group Texas Alliance for Life. While it was a distinct honor to receive the award, I accepted it knowing that it takes all of us who are part of this movement to courageously defend every human life.
The Texas Alliance for Life noted in announcing the award “It is uncommon for a freshman member of the Legislature to take a leadership role in such controversial legislation, but that is exactly what Landgraf did.
By: Joe Pojman
Just over a year ago the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) began to release a series of undercover videos chronicling Planned Parenthood’s alarming practice of selling body parts of aborted victims– livers, kidneys, eyeballs, brains, and more – for research. Not only are members of the public shocked by what we saw, so are pro-life state political leaders. They have begun to respond, and this article gives a summary of what has been done and what we can expect.
By: Alex Zielinski
The numbers “are much smaller than what one would expect,” said Joe Pojman, the executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, in an interview with Politico, adding that the data “defies common sense.”
TAL has indicated its intention to push clinics to release more data on abortion patients, in hopes of finding something to back their currently empty arguments.
By: Andrea Zelinski
The state clearly favors childbirth over abortion and should be able to promote that view point in its policies and brochure, said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, a leading anti-abortion group. “It’s not supposed to be a peer-reviewed paper in a medical journal,” he said. “It’s for people that are under great stress and need to know their options.”