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.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      161·
      8 months ago

      Overturning Gibbons would do more harm to the conservative cause than good.

      The entire West Coast is liberal-controlled states. They could legally tax or simply cut off any goods or services bound for conservative states originating from or passing through their states.

      All to defend a law that’s essentially unenforceable from a practical standpoint.

      • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
        111·
        8 months ago

        Again, you’re assuming conservatives have any sort of consistency or logic. They’ll just make up some BS that keeps things moving the way they want.

            • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
              44·
              8 months ago

              I remember when people had nice conversations on the internet that didn’t involve unnecessary one-line insults.

              • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
                23·
                8 months ago

                Maybe instead of being insulted by being aware of your incorrect beliefs you could educate yourself? Just a thought.

                • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
                  42·
                  8 months ago

                  LOL as if there is something objectively true here. You cannot use the word “incorrect” in this conversation, but you know that and spread misinformation anyway. Everything we’re talking about is fully subjective, conjecture, and whataboutism. Time to get off your “look at me I’m so cool” soapbox.