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Source: Texas Tribune
Why a Texas Panhandle city hit pause on a proposed abortion travel ban for now
Jayme Lozano Carver
Wed, October 25, 2023 at 5:13 PM EDT·6 min read
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The fault line was exposed this week. On Monday, Lubbock County officials rushed to approve the ordinance, being pushed by the same organizers behind the sanctuary city movement that predated the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. But on Tuesday, the Amarillo City Council took a deep breath and said they would not follow other local governing bodies in approving the ban.
We know what Lubbock County did, we know what Odessa did, said Amarillo Mayor Cole Stanley. Im not satisfied to come in and vote on something just because Ive seen somebody else do it.
The so-called travel ban takes the sanctuary ordinances a step further by outlawing the act of transporting a pregnant person on county roads for an abortion outside the state. It would be enforced through private lawsuits filed against the people who aid and abet abortions, not the pregnant woman. Experts say its an effort to further restrict abortion access in Texas.
This is an effort, one by one by one, to create a statewide ban against travel to other states, literally creating a reproductive prison in the state of Texas, Wendy Davis, a former state senator who is now a senior adviser at Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, previously told The Texas Tribune.
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/why-texas-panhandle-city-rejected-211356564.html
Girard442
(6,452 posts)Sheriff pulls up behind the car and puts the blinkers on. Walks up to the car.
Q. Howdy. Where you folks headed.
A. To visit some friends.
Q. Whereabouts might those friends be?
A. Is there a problem officer?
Q. Well, there might be. You were driving erratically back there. Would you step out of the car, please?
And so on, and so on. Pretty soon the word gets out that travel through Lubbock County by any woman not known to local LEOs is nigh unto impossible.
They read "The Handmaid's Tale" too.