Two Texas jurisdictions will consider measures this week to outlaw the act of transporting another person along their roads for an abortion, part of a strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Commissioners in Lubbock County are slated to vote on the proposal on Monday. A few hours north, the Amarillo City Council on Tuesday will weigh its own such law, which could lead to a future council or city-wide vote.
Lubbock and Amarillo are the biggest jurisdictions of the 10 places in Texas that have considered restrictions on abortion-related transportation since the June 2022 end of Roe, which had granted a nationwide right to abortion. Five cities and counties in the state have passed bans.
I feel that building walls and fences to keep undesireables out becomes an entirely different deal when the bigots realize they were actually built to keep the residents in. I wouldnt buy into their argument that this razor wire is only to keep undocumented folks out while they are currently passing laws and having citizen/police slave patrols on the new mexico border dealing with what theyre calling “abortion trafficking”. Which just happens to be the most dystopian new word ive seen coined in quite some time.
The problem is that they’re ok with it. The walls are to keep people where they belong, some out, others in.