By: Brian M. Rosenthal and Mark Collette
Ken Lambrecht expected a spike in calls to his Dallas abortion clinic the day after a dozen other facilities closed across the state, but he wasn’t prepared for the surge the week after – a flood of calls, many from women desperate for help and suddenly hundreds of miles from the nearest open clinic.
By: Laura Bassett
Joe Pojman, an anti-abortion activist with Texas Alliance for Life, also sympathized with Davis in a statement to the San Antonio Express-News, but said he still disagrees with her choice to have an abortion.
“She definitely experienced a loss of two children, and we are sympathetic to her for that,” Pojman said. “The position of our organization is that we do not favor, and we don’t recommend, aborting a child who has a severe disability, the same as we can’t recommend destroying a newborn child who has a severe disability. Both of them are children.”
By: Gilad Edelman
Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, an antiabortion group, had not yet read the report, but he argued that any decline in abortions resulted from several factors. Some clinics, he said, chose to close even though they were able to comply with HB 2 regulations. And laws approved in previous legislative sessions that require women to receive ultrasounds and counseling before an abortion procedure also contributed to the decline, he said.
By: Brian M. Rosenthal
The state’s two largest anti-abortion groups are backing different candidates in several of next week’s GOP primary runoff elections, signaling a new schism and potential dilution of power for a longtime lobby.
By: Rick Jervis
Supporters of the law say the measures are long-overdue to ensure the health and safety of women seeking abortions. The clinics that have closed have done so voluntarily and the new rules will safeguard against health violations at abortion clinics, said Joe Pojman, executive director of the non-profit, pro-life group Texas Alliance for Life.