Lubbock County, Texas, joins a group of other rural Texas counties that have voted to ban women from using their roads to seek abortions.

This comes after six cities and counties in Texas have passed abortion-related bans, out of nine that have considered them. However, this ordinance makes Lubbock the biggest jurisdiction yet to pass restrictions on abortion-related transportation.

During Monday’s meeting, the Lubbock County Commissioners Court passed an ordinance banning abortion, abortion-inducing drugs and travel for abortion in the unincorporated areas of Lubbock County, declaring Lubbock County a “Sanctuary County for the Unborn.”

The ordinance is part of a continued strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade as the ordinances are meant to bolster Texas’ existing abortion ban, which allows private citizens to sue anyone who provides or “aids or abets” an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

The ordinance, which was introduced to the court last Wednesday, was passed by a vote of 3-0 with commissioners Terence Kovar, Jason Corley and Jordan Rackler, all Republicans, voting to pass the legislation while County Judge Curtis Parrish, Republican, and Commissioner Gilbert Flores, Democrat, abstained from the vote.

  • @Bdtrngl
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    508 months ago

    If Lubbock county is a “sanctuary for the unborn” then they’ll be glad to help pregnant women and then adopt any unwanted children, right? Right?

    • @quantumriff
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      198 months ago

      Surely they have a model foster care system!

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      It’s a sanctuary for the unborn, not the already born. The already born can (and will) get fucked.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      People always say this, but it’s not as strong of an argument as they think it is. Religious conservative people, especially Christians, give to charity quite a lot, actually. They just hear that argument and think, “this person doesn’t know what they’re talking about, we obvious do care about the already born, I can comfortably dismiss everything they say now.”

      • @Bdtrngl
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        18 months ago

        Does that include donating to churches that condone child molestation?

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s also not the strong argument some people might think it is, in the eyes of these Christians.