By: Bobby Cervantes and Andrea Zelinski
Joe Pojman, the Texas Alliance for Life executive director, said Monday’s ruling proved the current court is hostile to the medical regulation of abortion. The silver lining, he said, is the court fight has driven out doctors who otherwise would have performed the procedure for the last three years.
By: STEVEN ERTELT
By: Charlie Butts
“Our attorneys and our physicians are going to pour over this 100-plus-page decision, and we’ll see if it’s possible to do anything to raise the standard of care at these substandard abortion facilities,” he vows. “Their operating rooms are not even sterile – [so] we’ll see what’s possible and make recommendations when the Texas legislature meets in January.”
By: Edgar Walters
“We do not know exactly what’s possible under this decision,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of the advocacy group Texas Alliance for Life. “We’re going to be poring through it with our attorneys and our physicians to figure out if the Supreme Court will allow the state to do anything meaningful to raise the safety standards at those freestanding abortion facilities.”
By: Phil Prazan
“We want to protect every unborn child from abortion but the Supreme Court obviously, severely ties the hands of the legislature so we can only do what’s possible,” said Pojman.
By: Molly Hennessy-Fiske
“Long term, this is going to help our movement continue to grow,” Pojman said.