Voting Resources
Joe Pojman
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...
January 30th, 2017
Late Friday afternoon, federal Judge Sam Sparks issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the State of Texas from enforcing new rules for abortion facilities requiring the humane disposition of the bodies of babies who have...
July 8th, 2016
Last Friday the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) published proposed rules regarding the humane disposition of the bodies of unborn children after elective abortions.
March 31st, 2016
Wednesday the FDA released a new medication guide for Mifiprex (also known as RU-486) along with another drug called misoprostal, to cause a drug-induced abortion. Mifiprex is intended to kill the unborn child, and...
January 24th, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court decided to consider a challenge to HB 2, the pro-life law passed by wide margins in the Texas House and Senate and signed into law by then-Gov. Rick Perry in July 2013. That case is known as Whole...
December 22nd, 2015
Do Texas Cities Unlawfully Restrict Free Speech of Pro-Lifers?The pro-life movement cannot function without free speech. Sidewalk counseling, public rallies and protests, lobbying, public education, and political...
December 1st, 2015
Texas Alliance for Life to Present "Courageous Defense of Life" Award to State Senator Charles Perry
Texas Alliance for Life will present Texas State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) with its "Courageous Defense of Life" award in Lubbock County on Tuesday, December 1, at the Lubbock County Republican Party Executive...
June 10th, 2015
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Today, in a nearly complete pro-life victory, a three-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled to uphold the constitutionality of Texas' pro-life law, House Bill 2, as applied...
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.
March 24th, 2017
In a recent article on their website, Empower Texans claims that Texas Alliance for Life opposed a bill to ban the most common method of second trimester abortion, Senate Bill 415, claiming that we “sided with pro-abortion...
August 22nd, 2016
Just over a year ago the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) began to release a series of undercover videos chronicling Planned Parenthood’s alarming practice of selling body parts of aborted victims– livers, kidneys, eyeballs...
June 27th, 2016
Today on a 5-3 vote, the United States Supreme Court struck down key parts of HB 2, the Texas abortion facility safety law.
February 18th, 2016
Some malcontents never seem to show gratitude for the tremendous pro-life gains achieved by Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Speaker Joe Straus, and the many pro-life members of the Legislature. We see that in...
December 30th, 2015
Tuesday the Texas Supreme Court released rules for how courts handle judicial bypass proceedings regarding secret abortions on minors girls without parental notification or consent. The rules were created in response to HB...
December 3rd, 2015
Please immediately urge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to vote for H.R. 3762, the pro-life reconciliation bill to defund Planned Parenthood.Your two-minute call or email is critical to the passage of this bill. This is expected to be a...
September 28th, 2015
Texas Alliance for Life applauds the strong efforts of Republican leadership in Congress to move forward with a strategy of shifting funds from Planned Parenthood to better providers of women's health services -- providers...
June 4th, 2015
The Texas Legislature has concluded the 84th regular session at the Capitol in Austin, but not before it passed five substantial pro-life bills as well as multiple pro-life provisions in the budget.
