Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had some harsher words for the Supreme Court’s ruling, saying the measures were passed to protect women from harm and said the order places “Texas women in harm’s way” and subjects them to “substandard care.”

Meanwhile, two major pro-life agencies in Texas also expressed concern and disappointment.

Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said:

“Unfortunately, for the time being, women who do not have abortions at any of the nine operating ambulatory surgical centers that perform abortions will continue to be subjected to substandard medical care. We remain optimistic that the Supreme Court will uphold the safety standards in House Bill 2 if they even decide to take the appeal.”

And Texas Right to Life issued a press release, saying:

“Although Texas Right to Life is disappointed that for at least three more months the abortion industry will be allowed to dodge higher medical standards in order to save money, a SCOTUS review of House Bill 2 could produce a significant Pro-Life victory.  Such a hearing would undoubtedly result in clarification of the vague notion of “undue burden” established by SCOTUS in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.  Since Casey, abortion proponents aiming at destroying every significant piece of Pro-Life legislation have gratuitously manipulated the elusiveness of the undue burden clause, and HB 2 was not immune to these tactics.

“The outcome of today’s SCOTUS ruling is that dangerous, substandard abortion mills will be allowed to remain open as Texas awaits definitive action from the Supreme Court.  Every day that HB 2 provisions are blocked, Texas women and preborn children are subjected to the abortion industry’s profit-driven tactics, which have failed time and again to acknowledge their value.”

 The law’s goal – to provide women the same care in abortion surgery as they get in tonsil or appendix surgery – is not unreasonable, but it  threatens the abortion industry’s goals to kill as many babies as possible as fast as possible without any thought or special standards. What they fail to realize is that despite turning abortion into an almost standardized assembly-line operation, it’s still medical surgery where things can go wrong–even without fault of the doctor. And it’s the only kind with this level of invasiveness that doesn’t provide any safety for women. In truth, there are more standards in place for wisdom tooth removal than for expunging a baby from the womb.

Meanwhile, two major pro-life agencies in Texas also expressed concern and disappointment.

Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said:

“Unfortunately, for the time being, women who do not have abortions at any of the nine operating ambulatory surgical centers that perform abortions will continue to be subjected to substandard medical care. We remain optimistic that the Supreme Court will uphold the safety standards in House Bill 2 if they even decide to take the appeal.”

And Texas Right to Life issued a press release, saying:

“Although Texas Right to Life is disappointed that for at least three more months the abortion industry will be allowed to dodge higher medical standards in order to save money, a SCOTUS review of House Bill 2 could produce a significant Pro-Life victory.  Such a hearing would undoubtedly result in clarification of the vague notion of “undue burden” established by SCOTUS in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.  Since Casey, abortion proponents aiming at destroying every significant piece of Pro-Life legislation have gratuitously manipulated the elusiveness of the undue burden clause, and HB 2 was not immune to these tactics.

“The outcome of today’s SCOTUS ruling is that dangerous, substandard abortion mills will be allowed to remain open as Texas awaits definitive action from the Supreme Court.  Every day that HB 2 provisions are blocked, Texas women and preborn children are subjected to the abortion industry’s profit-driven tactics, which have failed time and again to acknowledge their value.”

 The law’s goal – to provide women the same care in abortion surgery as they get in tonsil or appendix surgery – is not unreasonable, but it  threatens the abortion industry’s goals to kill as many babies as possible as fast as possible without any thought or special standards. What they fail to realize is that despite turning abortion into an almost standardized assembly-line operation, it’s still medical surgery where things can go wrong–even without fault of the doctor. And it’s the only kind with this level of invasiveness that doesn’t provide any safety for women. In truth, there are more standards in place for wisdom tooth removal than for expunging a baby from the womb.

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