Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments
Lubbock County, Texas, joins a group of other rural Texas counties that have voted to ban women from using their roads to seek abortions.
At the helm of legislation and the campaign to ban abortion-related transit in Texas is Mark Lee Dickson, a Christian pastor who began pushing communities to outlaw abortion by declaring themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn" in 2019.
In a statement emailed to Newsweek, Dickson stressed the importance of the ordinance while stating that the travel-related restrictions on abortion, which he refers to as "abortion trafficking," is worthy of being placed in every state in America.
Lubbock's ordinance also comes as Amarillo City Council is expected to weigh its own abortion-related bans on Tuesday, according to Amarillo Globe-News.
This is particularly significant as Lubbock and Amarillo are both traversed by major highways that connect Texas to New Mexico, where abortion is legal.
Voters in the city of Lubbock previously approved of a "sanctuary city" proposition in May of 2021.
https://www.newsweek.com/lubbock-texas-b...el-1837113
Lubbock County, Texas, joins a group of other rural Texas counties that have voted to ban women from using their roads to seek abortions.
At the helm of legislation and the campaign to ban abortion-related transit in Texas is Mark Lee Dickson, a Christian pastor who began pushing communities to outlaw abortion by declaring themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn" in 2019.
In a statement emailed to Newsweek, Dickson stressed the importance of the ordinance while stating that the travel-related restrictions on abortion, which he refers to as "abortion trafficking," is worthy of being placed in every state in America.
Lubbock's ordinance also comes as Amarillo City Council is expected to weigh its own abortion-related bans on Tuesday, according to Amarillo Globe-News.
This is particularly significant as Lubbock and Amarillo are both traversed by major highways that connect Texas to New Mexico, where abortion is legal.
Voters in the city of Lubbock previously approved of a "sanctuary city" proposition in May of 2021.
https://www.newsweek.com/lubbock-texas-b...el-1837113
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
