Texas city bans abortion, allows family to sue providers, helpers

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Declaring Lubbock a 'sanctuary city' for the unborn, voters have approved a local ban on almost all abortions, and the Texas legislature is considering a law to bar the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

File photo: A patient from Texas holds a sonogram that she received at the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S., February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Lila Engelbrecht

Drucilla Tigner, a policy and advocacy strategist for ACLU-Texas, noted that most other towns that have passed similar sanctuary city measures have populations of a few hundred or thousand, and often have no medical providers whatsoever, let alone one that provides abortions, as Lubbock does. The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday said it is weighing legal measures, calling the Lubbock vote unconstitutional and detrimental to women's health. The ACLU has sued other such "sanctuary cities" in Texas in a case that awaits a ruling.

Nationwide, women have a constitutional right to abortion under the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v Wade decision.

 

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Alia ji

trump's packed court scares me

In other words, women/girls are forced to be mothers if they get pregnant no matter out of whatever reason, such as even if a 12-13 old gets raped and thus pregnant, she must give birth to a baby!

Anything to keep them Democrats poor because we Republicans Christian's are anti abortion, pro life, pro gun for mass shootings but why are you Democrats always free loading on Medicaid and foods stamps 🙄

What friggin idiots!!! You have no right to force your beliefs on others!! Hypocrites!!! Liars! Racist

Sounds like a COvid wasteland

Ban Pollution and save many more lives. Than your anti abortion stance. Think!

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