By: Glenn Evans
Those included the Texas Realtors Association, Texas Alliance for Life, Texas Medical Association, Texas Auto Dealers Association, Texans for Right to Life, Texas Farm Bureau and Texas Cattlemen’s Association.
By: Brian M. Rosenthal
Beverly Nuckols, 60, a New Braunfels family doctor who flew in for the arguments, said she was happy that a long and just process finally could be coming to an end. Nuckols said was hopeful about the ruling because she was confident in the law. “I believe we will get a tie,” she said.
By: Brittney Martin
Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, predicts access to abortion services won’t change if the restrictions are upheld. At least one clinic would remain in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and, on a limited basis, McAllen. But two clinics in El Paso would close, leaving no provider in West Texas.
By: Kerri Kupec
For starters, the abortion facilities’ claim that the Texas law resulted in the closure of the majority of Texas abortion facilities is untrue. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the Texas Alliance for Life Trust Fund and University Faculty for Life, which comprises more than 400 faculty members from 80 U.S. colleges and universities, address the map of closed abortion facilities the litigants created and attached to their opening brief filed at the Supreme Court.
By: Alexa Garcia-Ditta
Joe Pojman, director of the anti-abortion lobby group Texas Alliance for Life, told the Senate committee that the law sends the message that a child “would have been better off had he or she been aborted.”
By: David Scott
Julia Burns told the committee, “I have Down Syndrome. I was born with it. I am also, as you can see, a person. Period.” As she spoke those powerful words, the committee appeared surrounded by spectators with disabilities, who believed perhaps, “there but for the grace of God I might have been aborted”.