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.
How do they plan to enforce this! Write a ticket to every pregnant woman that drives.
Nope, no tickets or cops involved. Article says that it would be enforced by private lawsuits, not law enforcement.
In other words they can’t stop anybody from traveling for that reason, they just want to be able to punish them with lawsuits out of pettiness.
Hmmm i wonder if people could clog the courts with frivolous suits. “I am sueing them on the grounds that a woman was in the car”
I don’t know if I would want my name attached to an official court filling that I know is frivolous. That seems like at best a waste of time and money at worst something that angers a judge.
It is cost of malisous campliance
What me going to jail for knowingly submitting false documents to the court? I am not Trump alright? People like me go to jail for doing illegal stuff.
But I didn’t say file a false lawsuit a frivolous one
It’s the same private citizen enforcement that was done for the Texas abortion ban in the first place. It does an end run around the Constitution and case law where it’s not technically the state doing any of the enforcement.
Or more accurately pull over and rape/murder any woman who drives