Texas Town 1st in Nation to Ban Abortion, Declares Itself ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’ by Dr Susan Berry for Breitbart
The city of Waskom, Texas, has become the first in the nation to ban abortion, declaring itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”
The Waskom city council unanimously voted Tuesday to adopt a resolution and an ordinance to make abortions in the city a criminal offense.
Jesse Moore, the mayor of Waskom, a city located 18 miles west of Shreveport, Louisiana, and called “The Gateway to Texas,” said the city council was approached by Right to Life East Texas with concerns that, with Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi having passed laws restricting abortions, abortion providers may consider Waskom to be an ideal location for a clinic.
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“The citizens in Waskom, they don’t want to have an abortion clinic in Waskom, so they presented the board last night with an ordinance and resolution that will make abortions in the city of Waskom a criminal offense,” Moore said, according to the Marshall News Messenger.
Though the ordinance will not bar an abortion clinic from moving into Waskom, “if they do they’ll be breaking the law,” the mayor said.
The unanimous approval of the ordinance comes days after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill into law that bans local governments from funding abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.
The law, which takes effect September 1, bars local governments from contracting in any way with abortion providers, and blocks cities from advocating for them.
The resolution declaring Waskom a “sanctuary city for the unborn” was modeled after one passed in Roswell, New Mexico, though Waskom’s ordinance makes it the first city in the nation to actually ban abortions.
Mark Lee Dickson, Right to Life East Texas director, told Fox News he became frustrated when lawmakers in Austin failed to pass “meaningful legislation that protects human life.”
“This is why we had to take things into our own hands and take it to the grassroots level,” he said. “Due to the recent pro-life legislation in Louisiana being so strong and due to the risk of an abortion clinic one day moving to Waskom, Texas, we decided to do something to protect the city, which was passing an ordinance outlawing abortion in Waskom, Texas.”
