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.
Conservatives know that the enforcement will be selective, and that's exactly what they want.
They will only change their minds when it directly affects them.
"there must be outgroups the law binds but does not protect, and in groups the law protects but does not bind"
How the fuck could it ever be enforced? You'd have to have a printed copy of your abortion invoice on the passenger seat face up.
Fucking absolutely backwards.
it's more about sending a message to their base than actually passing effective laws.
it allows them to pull over and selectively harass people they don't like (minorities) on suspicion that they might be getting an abortion.
What do the cops care if the city has to pay them money? The cop still got their little power trip, ruined this person's day, and faces no consequences for doing so.