Amy O’Donnell, Director of Communications with Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group, supports the decision.
“Texas law allows doctors to exercise their reasonable medical judgment when they are treating a pregnant patient who has a condition that presents a threat to her life, or a threat of substantial risk of impairment of a major bodily function,” she said.
Donnell acknowledged that some of the plaintiffs named in the lawsuit should have received better care.
“We do believe that when a doctor needs to intervene [perform an abortion] to save a woman’s life, that protection does need to be in place,” she said.
But O’Donnell defends the law as it stands.
“Despite what they’re saying, that the laws are confusing or that women are being harmed, the law is very clear,” O’Donnell said.