Texas Republicans ban women from using highways for abortion appointments
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Lubbock County, Texas, becomes the next county to pass legislation banning women from using their roads to seek abortions.

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.

  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Both the Texas Heartbeat Act and Lubbock County’s ordnance specifically prohibit cause of action and/or prosecution of the woman seeking the abortion.

    Section 171.206 (Page 5): This subchapter may not be construed to authorize the initiation of a cause of action against or the prosecution of a woman on whom an abortion is performed or induced or attempted to be performed or induced.
    https://webservices.sos.state.tx.us/legbills/files/RS87/SB8.pdf

    (d) Under no circumstance may the mother of the unborn child that has been aborted, or the pregnant woman who seeks to abort her unborn child, be subject to prosecution or penalty under this section.
    https://lubbockcounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12383968&GUID=C39FA88F-8B4F-4827-9437-4DCC40375C23

    Why do you think these laws can be weaponized by an abusive spouse in a manner that is different from other laws?

    Abusers will just lie and tell the judge they gave notice

    If you file a civil suit, you have to show the court that you have given the respondent legal notice. If you wanted to give legal notice via mail, you would have to send it registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the respondent must sign the receipt.
    There are a couple of other ways to give legal notice. I don’t understand how you imagine someone could convince the court that they have given legal notice when they have not.
    https://youtu.be/mQYVkhNoOxI?si=p7Pc5XklHb1Tk-ye

    IF you managed to dupe the court about notice, you would then have to go through discovery and send the evidence that supports your case to the respondent without them learning that you are suing them.

    Cackle maniacally as the judge signs a bench warrant for his victim’s arrest she doesn’t know about

    They don’t issue bench warrants for failure to appear in civil lawsuits.