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.
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Since this ridiculous ordinance is to only be enforced by private lawsuits, I suggest that pro-choice activists keep watch on the legal filings around this and publish the name of anyone who files one of these suits. Make a website, keep a list of names and addresses of every person who files one of these suits against another American.
Name and shame these fascists in front of the world. Court filings are public records generally so this would not be private information to “doxx” anyone with.
Imagine how they’d tear their hair out if there was a law to confiscate guns from people who didn’t pass a background check for it, and it was enforced only by private citizens.
They’re fucking craven hypocrites, but what else is new?
When Kavanaugh of all people isn’t defending your law, you done fell off the Right Edge.
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Yep. This means that even THEY can’t find a way to force it through. They obviously hate abortion and want it to go away. If they thought they could make it disappear entirely, they would.
Kavanaugh was never that extreme. He’s the squishiest of the 3 Trump nominees by far. Gorsuch is way more consistent, actually in a good way much of the time, like when he wrote the majority opinion prohibiting certain discrimination against gay and trans people using a originalist textualist approach.