Texas Republicans ban women from using highways for abortion appointments
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Lubbock County, Texas, becomes the next county to pass legislation banning women from using their roads to seek abortions.

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.

  • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
    72·
    8 months ago

    So in principle, if you get sued over this by an abusive spouse, he could:

    • Never tell you

    • Hide the mail

    • Show up to court that day and you don’t

    • Cackle maniacally as the judge signs a bench warrant for his victim’s arrest she doesn’t know about

    • He now can get her thrown in jail whenever she acts up, e.g. runs away or fights back

    • The legal system is now his personal army

    And we pretend that democracy, rule of law and the legal system is supposed to be capable of protecting innocent people from abusers and preventing tyranny. We pretend it was ever even able to, let alone willing.

    We obviously need something better.

      • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        As if abusers don’t commit felonies on the regular, especially when they beat the shit out of their wives and kids.

      • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
        42·
        8 months ago

        No means yes and yes means harder.

        Abusers will just lie and tell the judge they gave notice and the courts never listen when defendants claim they never got any. It’s always assumed to be a lie, hence bench warrants.

        Or just threaten her or otherwise stop her from showing up. Bonus points if he slips opiates into her drink, she passes out and misses the court date, and he then accuses her of being a drug addict.

        You really don’t know anything about how abuse works if you’re seriously questioning this.

          • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Why do you think these laws can be weaponized by an abusive spouse in a manner that is different from other laws?

            Because incrementalism is a thing.

            You don’t think those policies will stay in place for long, do you? Or that other, harsher laws won’t get passed over time, slowly boiling the frog in the pot?

            IF you managed to dupe the court about notice, you would then have to go through discovery and send the evidence that supports your case to the respondent without them learning that you are suing them.

            Which an abuser can do by simply destroying the mail and subjugating/hiding the victim so they can’t comply with court proceedings. And it’s very easy for them.

            Y’all really, really don’t know how life as an abuse victim works, do you?

              • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                Because the point is to have power over them, you dumb fuck. 🤦

                I literally had friends who were abused in such a manner and having the legal system turned against them only made them submit to their abuser’s whims, and they lived like that until they could sneak away and start over.

                They don’t just do it with civil infractions. They’ll do it criminally too, and need I remind you that abortion is a crime in those states, to which you can get prison time if convicted?

                And that the legal system will side with the abusers over it because that is the whole point of abortion bans?

                You just don’t get it and you don’t get it because you don’t want to get it. You really are just some bootlicker concern trolling because you support those measures, in which case I am ignoring you now. You don’t want to accept abuse victims’ life experiences or to even Google it, I don’t have to be bothered with you, goodbye.