By: Scott Braddock
By: Steven Ertelt
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced today he is seeking a second chance at capturing the Republican nomination for president. The pro-life advocate brings a long pro-life record to the table as the top elected official from the second largest state.
By: ALANA ROCHA
“We could not decide on one or the other,” Mr. Pojman said. “I think it’s safe to say that we all thought that each are quality candidates.”
By: Fox News Latino
But his first public appearance as land commissioner the previous weekend came at an anti-abortion rally where 1,500 people thronged the same Capitol grounds. Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, which organized the event, said Bush’s team approached his group “and asked if there was some way he could help.”
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: 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.