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: Michael Kunzelman
“The Supreme Court allows states to regulate abortion to ensure women have all the information they need to make an informed decision and to make sure it’s done in a safe manner,” Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said outside the courtroom after the hearing. “That’s all this law does.”
By: Erika L. Sanchez
Anti-abortion groups such as the Texas Alliance for Life dispute the report’s findings. Joe Pojman told Bloomberg News that abortion rights supporters “are milking this issue and they’ve painted a very distorted picture of the situation facing low-income women.” He added that “there are more family-planning dollars available than in any time in the recent past.”
By: David Mildenberg
Abortion-rights supporters “are milking this issue and they’ve painted a very distorted picture of the situation facing low-income women,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, which opposes abortion. “There are more family-planning dollars available than in any time in the recent past.”
By: David Mildenberg, Andrew Harris and Laurel Brubaker Calkins
Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, which opposes abortion, praised the ruling because he said it will lead to safer clinics.
Texas Governor Perry said the decision affirms the state’s right to protect fetuses and the health of the women.
“We will continue doing everything we can to protect a culture of life in our state,” he said in a statement.
By: Niraj Chokshi
Shortly before the ruling, the Texas Alliance for Life sent out a news release saying the new provisions were needed to improve safety standards for women. They highlighted a state inspection report for the Whole Woman’s Health facility in Beaumont, which indicated that the facility had numerous violations as of Oct. 3, including rusty equipment and a six-inch hole in the flooring of a cabinet used to store sterilization materials.
“Whole Woman’s Health and Planned Parenthood want the public to believe that abortion facilities are safe for women,” Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said in a statement. “No woman should be exposed to such horrendous conditions. Women deserve better.”