CITIZENS NEWS

The Lubbock County Commissioners Court has approved a new law that effectively bans transporting women along their roads for an abortion. Anti-abortion activists Mark Lee Dickson and lawyer Jonathan Mitchell designed this newly adopted ordinance as a broader initiative to prevent "abortion trafficking." Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Dickson led a campaign to convince cities in Texas and across the country to declare themselves as "sanctuary cities for the unborn." Mitchell, on the other hand, crafted the 2021 six-week abortion ban in Texas. This anti-abortion transport ban, which is in effect immediately, allows citizens to sue anyone who aids a woman in getting an abortion in Lubbock County or if they pass through Lubbock County for the same purpose. However, the ordinance does not apply to pregnant women seeking abortions themselves but rather to anyone providing assistance. (Related: Susan Swift condemns woke narrative that abortion is "healthcare" and "necessary to save women.") The measure passed by a 3-0 vote, with two commissioners abstaining from voting. Commissioner Terence Kovar, Jason Corley and Jordan Rackler voted in favor, while County Judge Curtis Parrish and Commissioner Gilbert Flores abstained. Neal Burt, chief of the civil division of the Lubbock County District Attorney's Office, requested more time to review and amend the ordinance. But the motion to postpone the vote until March failed by a 3-2 vote. "I long for the day, coast to coast, that abortion is considered a great moral, social and political wrong and that it is outlawed in every single state. This ordinance fully supports the belief that unborn children are human beings and that they deserve the right to life," Dickson said.