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Episode 111: The Battle Over Abortion

Featuring a short documentary focused on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Waco, Texas, we'll look at both the providers and patients inside and the opponents outside, to frame the issue the Legislature faces.

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Panelists:

Christy Hoppe
Christy Hoppe is the Austin Bureau Chief of The Dallas Morning News. She has covered politics and policies in the state Capitol through the terms of four governors. Prior to Austin, Christy worked as a reporter and editor in Dallas. A graduate of the University of Texas, she began her newspaper career with The Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

Peggy Romberg
Ms. Romberg is the executive director of the Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of Texas (WHFPT) (formerly the Texas Family Planning Association), a position she has held since September 1980. Prior to joining WHFPT, she was the first executive director of the Texas Abortion Rights Action League.

She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Romberg has been an advocate for women’s health, family planning and reproductive freedom since 1968, both as a professional and a volunteer. In 2002, when she received the Irvin M. Cushner Award from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in Washington, D.C. This is the association’s highest award presented to someone whose dedication and efforts to family planning and NFPRHA have been exemplary.

Joe Pojman, Ph.D.

Joe Pojman, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, an independent, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, pro-life organization whose goals are to protect innocent human life from conception through natural death through peaceful, legal means. He has served as the executive director for 10 years. He is frequently asked to write and speak on right-to-life issues and has done numerous interviews for print, radio, and TV media, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, New Republic, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express News, and most Austin broadcast news outlets.

Dr. Pojman holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The
University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace
Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, both from the University of Notre Dame.

He has been a speaker at the Democrats for Life of Texas
State convention as well as a delegate to four Texas State Republican
Conventions.

Dr. Pojman lives in Austin with wife Beatriz. They have
four children.

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