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.
Does this include highways that receive federal funding? That’s a good way to get this repealed. Threaten to pull funding.
I feel like we should be pulling funding anyhow.
“Oh. You want to secede? Well about this. We’ll do a transitional period. We won’t send you money, and you won’t send us taxes. Talk to you in about a decade. Hope a hurricane doesn’t hit, cuz that’d suck… also, your citizens won’t be paying into or benefit from Social Security… and also? We’re setting up a customs control point on your border, and your people need a visa.
“Also you get to deal with Mexico if they choose to take steps because you’re an asshole.”
And… they can begin making payments on their share of the federal debt.
I mean, just cutting federal safety nets off would be sufficient to cause their economic collapse. The burden imposed by that alone would fuck texans over inside of a year or two.
then you have the infrastructure spending- the Port of Houston, for example. needs a massive 75 million dollar upgrade to be competitive. Cut out the federal spending for customs and security and that clown show becomes even worse. Also, removing it as a port of entry into the US proper-like means that people are far more likely to go to other ports. all of which combines to increased spending and decreased economic revenue.
There’s really no reason to need to impose debt payments. their collapse is inevitable and they wouldn’t be able to pay it anyhow. Further… their healthcare and schools are crap so they’d loose a lot of skilled workers as people leave.
one point, though. Remember one of the causes of ww2 was the sanctions imposed after ww1. I doubt it would spark ww3, but, it would cause… resentment.
Texas, as well as plenty other states, aren’t even in full compliance with the ADA which is a law over 30 years old, it’s an ongoing fight that really started with the legal case Olmstead vs LC and moved into the seeking of consent decrees in recent years. To my knowledge none of the states that are infracting the ADA have been threatened with funding revocation or financial penalties of any kind. I doubt money will play any part of this. They’ll just run it through the courts until the people who are doing this dont have jobs anymore I’d wager, if they do anything at all.