The county of Lubbock, Texas has passed an ordinance banning abortions and becoming a “Sanctuary County for the Unborn.”
The move follows the city of Lubbock doing the same thing to make sure unborn babies are legally protected in this large west Texas city.
The measure also bans the sale of dangerous abortion drugs that kill babies and kill or injure women. The meeting to approve the new pro-life law was well attended, according to local news reports:
More than 100 people were in attendance for the regular commissioners court meeting where the ordinance was discussed Monday morning. The ordinance, which was introduced to the court last Wednesday, was passed by a vote of 3-0 with two members abstaining.
Commissioners Terence Kovar, Jason Corley and Jordan Rackler voted to pass the legislation. County Judge Curtis Parrish and Commissioner Gilbert Flores abstained from the vote.
The new pro-life law takes effect immediately.
Previously, the Planned Parenthood abortion chain dropped its lawsuit against the City of Lubbock and its Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance, which bans abortions within city limits. That made the city of Lubbock abortion-free and now the county is fully pro-life as well.
Lubbock is the largest city in the U.S. – and the first with an abortion facility – to pass an ordinance that protects unborn babies by banning abortions. Planned Parenthood sued the city, but a judge dismissed its lawsuit. Later, the abortion chain appealed, but it never succeeded in convincing a judge to block the ordinance. As a result, Planned Parenthood has not aborted any unborn babies in Lubbock since June 2022.
The Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance is similar to the Texas heartbeat law in that it has a private enforcement mechanism. It makes abortionists and those who help them “liable in tort to a surviving relative of the aborted unborn child, including the unborn child’s mother, father, grandparents, siblings or half-siblings,” meaning the abortionist can be sued for aborting the unborn child.
From LifeNews
I don’t agree with private enforcement mechanisms, and I don’t think they are constitutional, either. Waiting for a lib state to pass a law with a private enforcement mechanism that outlaws gasoline vehicles because of the “harm” they cause to the environment and to the public. Or a law with a private enforcement mechanism that makes misgendering a person subject to a tort lawsuit because of the emotional hurt inflicted upon someone. If you think those are ridiculous examples, then look again an this particular, privately enforced pro-life law.
These are the things that we must suffer through. If we could stop these children from being murdered, then it is all the worth going to jail for.
Good for Lubbock, Texas.
This is super cool. Nothing can be better than to guarantee a colds right to life. GO TEXAS!
“I don’t agree with private enforcement mechanisms…” I have no legal expertise but I say good for Lubbock, city and county, for this vote. If there are unintended consequences as you suggest then these will be dealt with one at a time. Saving the life of unborn babies is of such a great significance that having to use preferred pronouns is a small price to pay, at least that’s how I see it.
That picture looks like a screen shot from my old VIC-20 in the 1980s.
The red circle makes it look like a nuclear bomb was detonated in the city.
What this article fails to mention is this provision of the law: four Texas counties have passed laws allowing citizens to sue anyone who assists pregnant women traveling out of state to get an abortion. Lubbock County in West Texas passed the ordinance this week, specifically designed to prevent women from traveling to New Mexico where abortion is legal in an attempt to create a reproductive healthcare desert.
So it’s not just an abortionist in Lubbock who is liable under the law. Anyone driving a pregnant woman out of state for the purpose of getting an abortion is liable.
I can’t believe these snitch laws are going to prove popular or endure. Nor will they be upheld by the Supreme Court.