Voting Resources
Joe Pojman
October 27th, 2020
Yesterday, by a vote of 52-48, the United States Senate voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Both Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz voted to confirm....
September 26th, 2020
Today President Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. By any description, Barrett is highly qualified for the position. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. She was...
June 30th, 2020
The Supreme Court’s ruling is disappointing; however, it is not a setback. We have lost no ground. The rule requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital privileges in Louisiana, Texas, and other states,...
April 8th, 2020
Clearly the crisis in Texas and across the nation calls for measures to conserve the personal protective equipment needed by doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus on the front lines. We believe that merely delaying...
February 6th, 2020
The Texas law is among the best in the nation. It balances patients’ rights to make end of life decisions with the rights of physicians to not indefinitely order painful, medically inappropriate interventions to terminally...
January 3rd, 2020
I released the following statement on Tinslee Lewis in Cook Children’s Hospital and the Texas Advance Directives Act.
November 19th, 2019
A great deal of controversy has arisen regarding the appropriateness of specific medical interventions of an infant named Tinslee Lewis, who is at Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth.
September 12th, 2019
Austin City Council members voted Tuesday to allocate $150,000, within their total $4.2 billion budget for 2019-2020, toward funding support services for low-income women seeking an abortion.
April 12th, 2019
Texas Alliance for Life is not recommending the Legislature pass HB 896. Our goal is to completely protect unborn babies from abortion beginning at fertilization. However, HB 896 will not do that, because it has little...
October 25th, 2017
Today, Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) announced that he would not seek re-election for his Texas House of Representatives seat in House District 121.
October 16th, 2020
We are disappointed but not surprised. This demonstrates once again that the terrible Roe v. Wade precedent is cruel and out of step with science that tells us unborn children are babies deserving of protection.
August 18th, 2020
Recently the Austin City Council voted to appropriate $100,000 to fund abortion access, according to the “Immediate Community Investments and Re-imagining Plan.” This $100,000 is in addition to the $150,000 allotted in last...
April 14th, 2020
Yesterday evening the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order allowing the performance of drug-induced abortions in the 15 abortion facilities that sued Governor Greg Abbott over his Executive Order GA 09 calling for...
March 27th, 2020
With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases projected to rise, healthcare providers’ highest priority must be treating patients who test positive and others whose lives are at risk.
January 23rd, 2020
The event commemorates the 47th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that has claimed the lives of more than 60 million unborn children and harmed countless men and women since 1973.
December 2nd, 2019
Texas Alliance for Life, Inc., is proud to release our first list of endorsed candidates for federal office for the Primary and General Elections.
October 9th, 2019
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, Texas Alliance for Life will present our “Courageous Defense of Life” awards to three elected officials at our Annual Benefit Dinner. The dinner location is the Hilton Austin. More than 1,400...
June 19th, 2019
We are very pleased with the gains made. This was another successful session for mothers, unborn children, and vulnerable patients.
February 1st, 2018
Texas Alliance for Life has released our 2017 Legislative Scorecard for both the Regular and First Called Special Sessions of the 85th Texas Legislature, which were both held in 2017.
August 30th, 2017
The Texas Legislature concluded its 140-day regular session at the end of May with sensational pro-life successes. The Legislature passed six pro-life bills, continued to fund alternatives to abortion and continued to defund...
