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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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.