---
title: "Texas Alliance for Life position on HB 896 (Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act)"
description: "Single-organization statement from Texas Alliance for Life, 2019, to Texas Legislature. Composite 10/12 — explicit opposition to a tenet. “HB 896 criminalizes women... we are not recommending that the Legislature pass it because it will not survive a federal court challenge”"
type: "letter"
letter_id: "PL-2019-001"
date: "2019"
letter_type: "Single-organization statement"
lead_org: "Texas Alliance for Life"
recipient: "Texas Legislature"
topic: "State abolition bill"
shortfall_type: "explicit_opposition_to_tenet"
composite: 10
verification: "primary"
signature_rows: 1
primary_url: "https://www.texasallianceforlife.org/2019-texas-legislature/"
source_url: "https://www.abhortion.org/letters/pl-2019-001.html"
---

# Texas Alliance for Life position on HB 896 (Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act)

**Single-organization statement** · 2019 · Explicit opposition to a tenet · composite 10 / 12 · Primary source

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Letter ID | PL-2019-001 (formerly L07) |
| Date | 2019 |
| Lead organization | [Texas Alliance for Life](../letters/orgs/o155.md) |
| Recipient | Texas Legislature |
| Topic | State abolition bill |
| Type | Single-organization statement |
| Verification | Primary source |
| Signature rows | 1 |
| Completeness | Single organization |

## Key language

> “HB 896 criminalizes women... we are not recommending that the Legislature pass it because it will not survive a federal court challenge” — Texas Alliance for Life, 2019

## Scorecard

Composite **10 of 12** — explicit opposition to a tenet. Each dimension is scored 0 (none), 1 (implied) or 2 (explicit); the rationale is the editor's one-line reason for every non-zero score. D2 and D4 are the fault line the abolitionist critique cares most about.

| Dimension | Score | Meaning at this score | Rationale |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| D1 Exceptions | 1 | Implied — backs a bill known to contain them | Sponsors bills with exceptions. |
| D2 Immunity for the mother (fault line) | 2 | Explicitly opposes prosecuting or criminalizing women | Opposes criminal liability for women. |
| D3 Incrementalism | 1 | By implication — a funding, drug, research, Hyde or Title X letter that takes no abolition position | Incremental strategy. |
| D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills (fault line) | 2 | Explicitly opposes or lobbies against one | Opposes abolition bill. |
| D5 Framing | 2 | Explicit leave-it-to-the-states, court-viability or electoral-pragmatism framing | Court-viability framing. |
| D6 Secular framing | 2 | Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument | Legal framing. |

## Spokesperson

1 signature row · **Single organization.** A single-organization record; the spokesperson row is illustrative, not a signature block.

| # | Name as printed | Title as printed | Organization as printed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Joe Pojman, Ph.D.](../letters/people/i0251.md) | Executive Director | [Texas Alliance for Life](../letters/orgs/o155.md) |

## Organizations on this letter

1 distinct organization and 1 named individual, after normalizing renamed and affiliated entities.

- [Texas Alliance for Life](../letters/orgs/o155.md) — Right-to-life group, TX

## Sources

- [texasallianceforlife.org/2019-texas-legislature](https://www.texasallianceforlife.org/2019-texas-legislature/) — Primary source (https://www.texasallianceforlife.org/2019-texas-legislature/)
- [texasobserver.org/meet-texas-abortion…](https://www.texasobserver.org/meet-texas-abortion-abolitionists-group-pro-life/) — secondary (https://www.texasobserver.org/meet-texas-abortion-abolitionists-group-pro-life/)

## Editorial note

The rubric records distance from the standard published by Abolitionists Rising, not a moral verdict; every organization scored here regards itself as pro-life. Scores are judgment calls applied consistently by the published rubric.