Activities
Pending – Austin Ordinance Case:
Currently representing a pregnancy resource center (PRC) in Austin regarding their efforts to oppose an unconstitutional NARAL-sponsored ordinance adopted by the City of Austin in 2010, requiring all local PRCs to post certain signs at their facilities. Here is a local news article about the ordinance.
Pending – General Legal Counsel:
Currently providing general and regular legal counsel to pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) located in the following Texas cities: Austin, Conroe, Georgetown, Leander, and The Woodlands.
Pending – Judicial Bypass Case:
Currently providing legal counsel to the parents of a 17-year-old girl who
obtained a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion without parental consent. The
girl has a traumatic physical and psychological history involving assault,
self-mutilation, cutting, suicide attempts, and commitment to a mental
hospital. The girl recently decided to keep her child after the relationship
with her parents improved, but the case is still pending.
Mar. 2011 – Testified in Support of Texas House Bills 1078 and 1602:
Stephen Casey testified in favor of HB 1078, which strengthens current State law
regarding parental notification and consent. Greg Terra testified in support of
HB 1602, which creates a new criminal penalty for any physician who performs an
abortion on a girl or woman who, he or she reasonably should know, is being
coerced and not consent. The bill makes the crime a Class-A misdemeanor, which
is can be punished by up to a year in county jail and/or a fine not to exceed
$4,000 also may be imposed.
Mar. 2011 – Obtained Temporary Restraining Order in Forced-Abortion Case:
The following was published by the Alliance Defense Fund as an “Allied Attorney Success” on 3/15/11: “Richard A. Macias, Steve Sanders, Stephen Casey and Gregory R. Terra obtained a temporary restraining order against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, restraining a clinic from performing an abortion on a pregnant 15 year old whose mother was trying to force the teen to abort her pre-born child. Richard, who was lead counsel, also obtained a court order placing the pregnant teen in protective custody. He was assisted by Steve Sanders of Kansas City and Texas Allied Attorneys Stephen Casey and Gregory R. Terra, founders of the Texas Center for Defense of Life.” Greg & Stephen provided advice and documents in support of this case.
Oct. 2010 – Obtained Permanent Injunction in Forced Abortion Case
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/?CID=20143 – “The parents of a 16-year-old girl represented by Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys [Greg Terra and Stephen Casey] signed a court order Wednesday agreeing to not force their daughter to have an abortion against her will. This came about slightly more than a week after the ADF-allied attorneys secured a temporary restraining order (TRO) from a Texas court to block the parents from making their daughter go to an abortion facility to terminate the life of their pre-born grandchild. The teenager’s mother forcefully brought her on two occasions to local abortion facilities, demanding that her daughter terminate the life of her child. Though she refused, and the child’s father also does not want an abortion, her parents insisted that she have the abortion. The TRO granted last week prevented the parents from such coercion before they agreed to sign a long-term court order prohibiting them from forcing their daughter to have an abortion for the duration of her pregnancy.”
Oct. 2010 – Obtained Temporary Restraining Order in Forced Abortion Case
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/?CID=20042 – “Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys [Greg Terra and Stephen Casey] representing a 16-year-old girl secured a temporary restraining order Monday from a Texas court that blocks her parents from forcing her to have an abortion against her will. On two occasions, the teenager’s mother forcefully brought her to local abortion facilities, including International Healthcare Solutions and Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, demanding that her daughter terminate the life of her child. Though she refused and the child’s father also does not want the baby killed, her parents continued to insist that they will force her to have the abortion. The court’s order prevents that from happening.”
