CV NEWS FEED// Pro-abortion Democrats in Texas are trying to unseat pro-life Republican justices in the State Supreme Court this November, according to MSN.
Republicans have held all seats on the Lone Star State’s high court for 30 years. This year, with incumbents facing reelection, Democrats are seeking to flip seats over recent pro-life court rulings that have upheld the state’s pro-life laws.
The three justices up for reelection — John Devine, Jimmie Blacklock, and Jane Bland — are being targeted by a new pro-abortion political action committee, called the Find Out PAC, that is exclusively focused on promoting abortion. Gina Ortiz Jones, who lost a 2018 bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, founded the PAC.
Pro-abortion Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a vocal supporter of late-term abortion and critic of Texas’ pro-life laws, has joined the attempt to rally pro-abortion advocates dissatisfied with the high court’s Cox decision and its ruling in May to uphold the state’s abortion bans against a lawsuit brought by abortion activists.
In another victory for pro-lifers, in February, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity v. Dickson that it is not defamation for pro-life advocates and groups to call abortionists murderers.
In a bid to discredit Justice Devine, in December 2023, O’Rourke posted a video from 2012 in which Devine, before being elected to the Texas Supreme Court, affirmed his strong pro-life stance to supporters at a rally, recounting that, prior to his involvement in politics, he was arrested 37 times for “rescuing at abortion clinics.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I want to submit to you that before I ever got into politics, my convictions were forged in the crucible of the pro-life movement,” Devine declared in the video. “Now, isn’t it an irony that today I stand before you as one who could very well win the Texas Supreme Court?”
Devine won his first term on the high court in November 2012 and now seeks reelection to a third term this November.
O’Rourke has failed three times in significant political campaigns: a 2018 bid for the U.S. Senate against Republican Senator Ted Cruz, a 2020 bid for president, and a 2022 gubernatorial race against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Joe Pojman, director of the pro-life Texas Alliance for Life, criticized the Find Out PAC for attempting to “legislate from the bench” to push its abortion agenda after defeats in the legislature.
Referring to the abortion lobby group, Pojman told the American-Statesman in a recent interview, “They lost in the Legislature, so now they’re trying to get the court to legislate from the bench, and I think they’re misrepresenting that issue to voters. This PAC is lobbying the wrong body.”
Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Right to Life have both endorsed the Republican slate of state Supreme Court justices.