VERIFY: 73 million abortions take place around the world each year. 800,000 of them are in the US | KVUE

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By: Erica Proffer

“I was at the event where the governor made that statement and I knew he had to be talking about the entire world, where there are many millions of unintended pregnancies and many millions of abortions that occur,” Pojman said.

The Guttmacher Institute estimates 73 million abortions take place each year.

Northern Africa and Western Asia have the highest abortion rate, the data shows.

“Much of the U.S. follows what Texas does in terms of our lawmaking … We believe that many nations follow what the U.S. does. So, really, it is very relevant to talk about worldwide statistics,” Pojman said.

Texas’s new proposal shows why abortion law is a mess in America | The Economist

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The result of all this is a broken system. America has one of the most permissive national abortion laws in the world: of 59 countries that allow abortion on demand, it is one of only seven that allow it after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Yet six states have only one clinic left and in a handful more women must travel hundreds of miles to find a clinic. This seems to intensify polarisation on the issue. Pro-life activists, who believe abortion is murder, focus on the regulations that the courts did not uphold. “People are frustrated…they’re trying to show the courts they’ve had enough,” says Joe Pojman, founder of Texas Alliance for Life. Abortion-rights activists and progressive lawmakers, meanwhile, are pushing hard in the opposite direction. At least seven states now have no laws governing when or for what reason a woman may have an abortion.

More Abortion Restrictions Have Been Enacted In The U.S. This Year Than In Any Other | NPR

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By: Emma Bowman

Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, said the Supreme Court’s apparent readiness to take a new look at abortion rights gives opponents such as himself some hope that Texas and other states will see an outcome that gives them the latitude for such restrictions.

Although he expects the so-called Texas Heartbeat Act to face a series of court challenges, he wants to see such bills go even further, he said, “even up to the moment of conception — fertilization.”

“We think the state has a right and a responsibility to protect all citizens, including the most vulnerable citizens — unborn children — from harm, and we believe that the state has a responsibility to protect those children from abortion,” he said.

Gov. Abbott signs momentous trigger bill | One News Now

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By: Charlie Butts

The Human Life Protection Act (House Bill 1280), the latest piece of legislation Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) has signed into law, is a trigger bill that would ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the precedent that established a so-called right to abortion in 1973.

Joe Pojman of the Texas Alliance for Life tells One News Now the statute is one of the most momentous pro-life laws The Lone Star State has ever passed.

“That law fully recognizes the personhood of the unborn child and protects that unborn child from abortion beginning at the conception just as soon as the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade and allows states to do so,” Pojman details.

But because the nation’s high court is considering overturning that outdated decision, regressives in Congress are pushing a bill that would again force abortion on all 50 states, regardless of state laws.

“Pro-lifers across the country must pressure Congress to prevent them from passing any law that would overturn state laws protecting unborn babies,” Pojman insists. “Congress should not be putting into law Roe vs Wade or any other right to abortion. That would be a terrible use of federal law.”

Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel has previously warned One News Now that if the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act is passed and signed into law, then the states would be completely powerless to regulate abortion.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Bill to Ban Abortions, Legally Protecting Every Unborn Baby | LifeNews

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The Texas legislature passed the Human Life Protection Act (House Bill 1280) and the governor today put his signature on it.

Sometimes referred to as a “trigger bill,” the legislation would protect unborn babies by banning abortions completely or as much as the U.S. Supreme Court allows when it overturns Roe v. Wade. The ban would go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court rules. Exceptions would be allowed for risks to the mother’s life or a “substantial impairment of major bodily function.” Abortionists who violate the measure could face fines or prison time.

“A favorable ruling would make Texas one of the first states to end abortions,” the bill’s author, state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, said on Twitter.

“We are extremely pleased at the passage of HB 1280,” said Dr. Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, after the legislature approved the measure. “To whatever extent the Supreme Court allows states to protect unborn babies from abortion — whether at 15 weeks, six weeks, or at conception — the Human Life Protection Act will go into effect to the same extent.”