On Tuesday, the city of Pueblo, Colorado, narrowly passed the first reading of a proposed ordinance that would ban abortions within city limits.
Before the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe last June, Colorado lawmakers passed the so-called Reproductive Health Equity Act that declares every individual has a “fundamental right” to abortion or contraception.
As The Pueblo Chieftain reported, the proposed sanctuary city ordinance is the first “municipal anti-abortion regulation” brought forward in Colorado.
Mark Lee Dickson, a pastor and director of Right to Life East Texas, was involved with the sanctuary city ordinance in Pueblo, Colorado. The pro-life activist has spearheaded dozens of efforts in cities across the U.S. to outlaw abortion by getting ordinances passed designating areas as sanctuary cities for the unborn.
Pro-life activists like Dickson run a site called Sanctuary Cities For The Unborn, which invites like-minded residents to sign a petition indicating they want to see abortion outlawed in their city.
In a statement to The Christian Post ahead of a Sanctuary Cities For The Unborn interest meeting on Nov. 21 in Pueblo, Dickson said that he and others who are part of the initiative “hope to see cities vote on ordinances in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Minnesota before the year is over.”
Dickson helped city councilor Regina Maestri draft the Pueblo ordinance, and he also spoke during the public comment section of the council meeting.
“If an abortion facility moves to Pueblo, Colorado, it’s not the state capitol’s problem,” the pro-life activist told radio station KRDO. “It’s not the nation’s capital’s problem. It’s a problem of this local municipality because they’re the ones they’re going to have to deal with it from it.”
The above comes from a Dec. 5 story in the Christian Post.
Click here to see the 61 cities that have outlawed abortion so far (11.10.22).
Wonderful! There is hope for liberal Colorado. Hope Rev. Mark Lee Dickson will he blessed by God to help create Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn, in pro-abortion states like New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, all New England states– and much more. I pray for a miracle, that San Francisco become a Sanctuary City for the Unborn.
Lila Rose’s excellent LiveAction pro life organization is banned on Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, and most social media. Makes me sick! Hope that this situation can eventually be changed!
All someone in Pueblo has to do is drive thirty minutes north to Colorado Springs to get an abortion. If you don’t sell Pepsi because you don’t want to sell Pepsi, someone who wants Pepsi is going to go to another merchant that sells it. Simple as that.
Pepsi is a soft drink. Abortion is MURDER. Selling MURDER of “unwanted,” helpless, unborn children, is Satanic!
“pepsi” merely pointed out the negligible effectiveness of pro-life sanctuary cities. People can and will go outside the city to get abortions. Might make some in Pueblo feel good, but it’s not going to have much effect when abortion services are provided near the city.