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The ordinance allows citizens to sue anyone who assists a person in traveling to get an abortion in Lubbock County, Texas, or even traveling through the area to seek care elsewhere.

A Texas county near New Mexico has banned helping people traveling to get an abortion. Lubbock County is now the largest of four Texas counties that have adopted a version of the measure. It's part of new efforts by conservatives to further restrict abortion access since the fall of Roe v. Wade. The ordinances are enforced through lawsuits filed by private citizens but so far no cases have been brought under ordinances passed elsewhere. Texas is one of 13 states that bans abortion at all st...

A Texas county near New Mexico has banned helping people traveling to get an abortion

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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Commissioners in a west Texas county have banned drivers from transporting a person seeking an abortion, making it the largest of five counties, three in Texas, that have approved the measure.

The 3-0-2 vote makes Lubbock County the most populous county in the Texas to adopt an abortion-related travel ban.

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Some rural Texas counties are banning people from traveling on their roads to get out-of-state abortions. The idea didn't spring up organically.

Before aldermen unanimously voted in favor of the resolution, Greg Fletcher (R-1) asked, “This removes Jim Baxter from anything to do with our insurance next year. Correct?”