Most are small municipalities with only a few hundred or thousand residents, but with more than 260,000, and the only one of these cities with an abortion facility within its limits, Lubbock, Texas, became the largest of the 28 when it passed its ordinance outlawing abortions at the start of May.
Towns are passing measures to outlaw abortions within its city limits. Here s why.
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The Biden Administration is working to expand abortion access nationwide, as the president has said he does not want someoneâs zip code to keep them from care. However, opponents have started a new approach to stop this.
Dozens of towns and cities have recently declared themselves âsanctuary cities for the unborn.â
They say they are not waiting for states to act, and instead, they are passing ordinances at the municipal level, outlawing abortions in city limits, and they want it to spread to other parts of the country.
“Would we ever see an abortion clinic in Hayes Center? Maybe not,” said Kim Primavera, a Hayes Center trustee. Four of the village’s five trustees are women, and most are young. They represent about 280 people here. “But it’s always better to be proactive than reactive in life in general,” she said.
The Hayes Center Times-Republican, the local newspaper which Primavera partially owns, reported that not a single person in town spoke against the measure.
The towns and their leaders differ, but there is one constant: traveling preacher Mark Lee Dickson, a director of the tiny non-profit East Texas Right to Life.
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