By: Lisa Maria Garza
Admitting privileges allow a doctor, who is typically recognized as a staff member of a hospital, to admit a patient to that facility. It is common sense to make that a requirement for abortion providers, according to Joe Pojman, director of the anti-abortion group, Texas Alliance for Life.
By: COURTNEY CRANDELL
Abortion advocates claim the closures hurt communities, but Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said the facilities did not adequately protect patients. “Requiring a doctor at an abortion facility to have admitting privileges at a local hospital is common sense,” he said. “In the event of a serious complication from an abortion, the physician should be able to follow the patient to the emergency room to continue caring for his or her patient.”
By: CHRIS TOMLINSON
Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, welcomed the clinic closures because, he said, those facilities did not adequately protect patients.
By: MANNY FERNANDEZ
“We are pleased that women will never again receive substandard care from either of these abortion facilities,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life.
By: NATHAN KOPPEL
But Joe Pojman, the executive director of Texas Alliance for Life who was also involved in the drafting of the law, said the hospital is correctly abiding by the law’s goal of protecting the rights of an unborn child.
“I applaud what the hospital has done so far, and I would urge them to keep the mother on life-support equipment, even if she is determined to be brain dead, and to treat the unborn baby as the patient” he said.
By: MANNY FERNANDEZ and ERIK ECKHOLM
In Texas, the law and the hospital’s efforts to abide by it have drawn support among opponents of abortion. “The unborn child should be recognized as a separate person,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. He added, “I would say that, even if she were brain-dead, I would favor keeping treatments going to allow the child to continue to survive, with the hope the child could be delivered alive.”