Texas law currently requires a minor seeking an abortion to secure the consent of at least one parent. However, the pregnant minor can circumvent parental authority by gaining permission from a judge to undergo a secret abortion. The judicial bypass...
Gallup Poll: Majority of Americans Want Abortions Illegal
Last month, the Gallup polling organization released a national survey of 1,018 adults that reveals a majority of Americans want abortion to be illegal in all or most cases. Although there is a clear majority of Americans that want abortions illegal, almost half...
Undercover at a Planned Parenthood Rally
On Wednesday, May 11, my Texas Right to Life colleagues and I were at the state capitol in Austin where Planned Parenthood hosted a state-wide Action Day to protest potential funding reallocations discussed in the state legislature. Earlier that day, Planned...
Exciting Pro-Life Movie for Children
Exciting and poignant pro-life movies are rare. Rarer still are Pro-Life movies for children. However, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (released to the box office on September 24, 2010, and now available on DVD and Bluray), fits...
Planned Parenthood vows to stop Women´s Health Program
The Women’s Health Program (WHP), a Medicaid reimbursement program for family planning services, was established by the Texas Legislature as a five-year demonstration project in 2005. The program is set to expire this August unless authorized by new...
Texas Right to Life removes $61M tax funds from abortion industry!
Texas Right to Life spearheaded the effort to reallocate $61 million of family planning, a revenue stream for the abortion industry, to other more worthy programs when the State House of Representatives debated the state’s budget on Friday, April 1st. All...
Texas Right to Life Fights to End Coerced Abortion
April 3rd through 10th was designated National Coerced Abortion Awareness Week to raise awareness about how many women are forced, coerced, and pressured into aborting their babies. While coercion is assumed to be illegal, no law in Texas explicitly prohibits...
Exposing ´Family Planning´ funds in Texas
Public revenues profit Planned Parenthood by freeing up funds that they can invest in their promotion of abortion, their biggest money-maker.
Hearing today on protecting the right to life-sustaining medical treatment
Texas Right to Life is in the Texas Capitol everyday during the Legislative Session to advance the Pro-Life cause. However, our aim is not solely to protect women and save the unborn. Increasingly, one of the main attacks on the sanctity of life in Texas...
Texas-Based Pro-Life Organization Gains National Recognition
Recent media outlets have reported on billboards that have been erected on Chicago’s south side that display a picture of President Barack Obama. The billboards read, “Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted.” The purpose of...