Dr. Joe Pojman - Executive Director, Texas Alliance For Life Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven, twenty two is our time here on Houston's warrant is.
We had a Texas Rally for Life Saturday in Austin.
Doctor Joe Poyman joins us executive director of the Texas
Alliance for Life. Anytime you have a conservative cause going
on in Austin, always kind of wonder how those things
turn out. Doctor Joe how how First of all, how
was the attendance and what was the reaction in the city?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Way, thanks for having me here. It was sensational attendance.
We had thousands of people from Central Texas at Austin,
but so many from around the state, including Southeast Texas
and Houston was well represented. This is a joyful event
and it's to celebrate the tremendous the tremendous resources that
Texas provides for women with unplanned pregnancies. There's some three hot,

(00:43):
three hundred pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and adopted sagencies across
the city of Texas, publicly funded, privately funded. They just
provide tremendous help for women with unplanned pregancies and the
protection that Texas offers for unborn babies. On board babies
are protected from abortion, from con so you know, I'll
have to say, Austin p D and the States Billie

(01:05):
forcedps just did a sensational crowd. Everyone enjoyed it, great
family event, So thanks for asking about that. It was
just a great event for Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well. You know, anytime you have a conservative event in Austin,
you wonder how the whole thing's going to turn out, right,
because they're not I'm sure there were counter protesters.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Actually, you know, they were completely absent, and maybe they're
just a little demoralized with our new president restoring sanity
to the White House in the country, maybe they little
demoralized because the elections went so strongly for conservatives in Texas,
and weever, elections just so much to be to be
grateful for in Texas, and I'm so proud.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Of our state. I want to ask you about Representative
Chip Roy. He's reintroduced ability he did that last Tuesday
that would repeal the law from former President Joe Biden's
Department of Justice used to put pro Live advocates in prison.
The law was first passed in nineteen ninety four, which
prohibits violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure

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intimidate or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or
provide reproductive health services. So that was interpreted by Biden's
Department of Justice as an opportunity to go after pro lifers.
I don't know how you get that interpretation from that law,
but then again, I don't pretend to understand a whole
lot of what Joe Biden's Department of Justice did.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know, we commend Congressman Chip Roy. He's a good,
solid conservative from Texas and we love him a lot.
He's got a great bill. This bill was I think
it was a Clinton era. He signed that into law,
and it was supposed to allow abortion facilities to thrive.
And you know what, when people non violently want to

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protest in front of abortion facilities, they we should not
be putting them in prison for years and years in
federal penitentiaries.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
That was just wrong.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
And that's what Biden has done. He tried to intimidate
our movements. Dozens of many of these people who were
elderly women, grandmothers, and were put in prison for many,
many years. And you know the president, now, our new
president Trump has pardoned them. And that there's several dozens
of these of these individuals completely non violent. So you

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know that that law is being misused, was being misused
by the Biden administration. Needs to go, and let's hope
that law gets gets uh gets passed.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
But for sure, I mean, standing quietly silently outside of
an abortion clinic with a sign does not constitute constitute violent, threatening,
or damaging behavior in any way, shape or form, does it.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
It does not, of course not. And that was not
the intensity these people. Now some of them might may
have been engaging in you know, petty trespassing standing, you know,
where they were told they're not supposed to stand, but
they were standing. They were standing. They were not We're
not doing anything harmful to the individuals threatening in any way.
So you know, it was an abuse of the law.

(04:08):
It was. It was a bad law to begin with,
but Biden his administration just prosecuted with a vengeance and
tried to intimidate all of us in the pro life movement.
And you know that was that's a danger to all
of us. We've got to have some free speech, yep,
We've got to have our first Amendment. And WAKES is
so different from so much of the rest of the world.
So we're so glad that this may may in fact

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be repealed.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
All right, Joe, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Doctor
Joe Poyman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life.
It's seven twenty seven.