Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments
Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments
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.
Everything else aside, that's about as clear a violation of the Commerce Clause as you can get.
The inability of states to regulate interstate commerce was settled by the courts in 1824.
The same laws that allows firearms to be shipped through states where they're illegal protects abortion-seekers on Texas roads
We should probably also have them start wearing masks and robes over their faces/bodies too, to prevent them from having unwanted pregnancies. Actually, just don't even give driver's licenses to women in the first place, since they should always be getting escorted by their fathers or husbands in the first place, they really shouldn't even be allowed to drive. And if we wanted to reduce unemployment, we could just require all these women in the workplace to go back to being stay-at-home moms, like God intended, freeing up all those jobs for hard-working American men to work at. Send me money if you agree.
This shouldn't be a problem based on how they think abortions work...the woman didn't go out FOR an abortion, she was out shopping and decided to get one, like picking up a snack on your way out of the market!
Seriously it's deranged. If they behaved generally like they care about the 'children' and the women, I could accept they're at least acting in good faith according to their dumbass beliefs, but they don't seem to care except for outlawing and restricting women's activities, so it's clear that those who say the point is just to subjugate women are right.
Conservatives are garbage.
I didn't think Texans would be so easily convinced to give up their civil liberties, this doesn't sound like the "stand your ground" state. If this isn't reason enough for the people of Texas to make use of the second amendment's right to bare arms, intended exactly for situations like this - for citizens to protect themselves when their government oversteps, I don't know what is.
If you think laws cannot get more ridiculous, Texas proves you wrong.
How are they going to enforce this? Police patrols on highways stopping each and every car with a female in it that is of "eglible age" and submit her to a mandatory pregnancy test before she is allowed to leave the state - only if test is negative? And put those who happen to be positive into a "pregnancy protection ward" or something?
Sure. Its all about controllino women. This is some Taliban shit. Fuck these guys.
Wait... I thought it was us socialists that were all about the thoughtcrimes?
For the first time, I find myself compelled to find out what those stupid sovereign cit fucks are referencing with all their talk about "right to travel."
Sanctuary for the Unborn and Cemetery for the Born. #Freedom.
The commerce clause would like a word.
And I'm sure it was penned by some 105 year old dinosaur
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.
Hol’ up….
As dumb as both this and the “I can sue you because abortion!” thing are, this one cannot “bolster” the other because it specifically targets women.
In the original one, the woman obtaining the abortion cannot be targeted. It has to be a doctor, friend, clinic escort, Uber driver (yes, it’s fucking dumb ok), etc. but not the woman.
So this one kinda violates the other LOL
What a middle aged country is in some ways
What the fuck?
Lubbock County, Texas, joins a group of other rural Texas counties that have voted to ban women from using their roads to seek abortions.
We're about at the point where people are going to have to start setting up a modern underground railroad to help women and their families escape that oppressive shithole and set up lives where they're free.
Wonder if this is just a preemptive measure to prevent someone from suing the city, claiming they were "aiding and abetting" women seeking abortions? After all, the law is so vague that a Republican extremist (or a Democratic rabble-rouser) could probably argue allowing women to use those roads runs afoul of the law.
Give it 6 more months and it will just be "Texas Republicans ban women."
How would they enforce this?
People there apparently do not know what jurisdiction is.
Benjamin...get the Musket.
Next they'll ban anyone from using their roads to get to Commiefornia /s
Y'all-qaeda strikes again!
what. the. fuck.
I don't mind working to old age, as long as I can have 6 hour workdays. But let's be reasonable, no 80 year old grandpa is going to be productive at work.
I’ll never understand why people think Texas is freedom. Texas is draconian shit hole
Yeah, well Leon Phelps called it his Spankuary.
And...if that is a place for the unborn to see refuge..does that mean migrants that are expecting mothers or maybe just are THINKING of getting pregnant, can go there and skip the lines? Desantis needs to know where he can bus his pawns.
Good, someone's gotta put these broads in their place