Three Texas towns have joined the initiative since August began, all with unanimous votes: Eastland, Leona, and Crawford.
Whole Woman's Health and fellow plaintiffs accused the Texas legislature of “well-documented hostility to the rights of pregnant people.”
The ordinances in participating Texas "sanctuaries" have evolved and possibly culminated in the small town of Sterling City.
The two towns are neighbors in the Panhandle, where "Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn" have quickly multiplied.
Ten days after Lubbock took the same action, its northward neighbor Abernathy passed a local law banning abortions in town limits.
Attorneys, local politicians, Planned Parenthood, and ordinance herald Mark Lee Dickson chime in on the landmark vote.
The measure passed overwhelmingly. It allows the living kin of aborted children to sue their abortionists and those who aided the procedure.
The small town’s all-female city commission voted unanimously to adopt the ordinance, which empowers the living kin of aborted children to sue their abortionists.
The town opted to outlaw abortion within its city limits by a unanimous vote.
The ordinance holds the abortion provider — not the mother — liable to the living relatives of the aborted child.
The Ackerly City Council voted unanimously last night to ban abortion in city limits. Lubbock and Odessa may do the same.
Though the City of Lubbock avoided the proposal, a petition has forced the "Sanctuary City for the Unborn" ordinance onto the agenda.
Morton is the 16th city to pass an ordinance deeming itself a "Sanctuary City for the Unborn." Supporters hope Lubbock is next.
At least two councilmen support the ordinance that would make Cedar Park Texas' fifteenth "Sanctuary City for the Unborn."
State legislators and activists have urged Lubbock to become a "Sanctuary City for the Unborn" before a Planned Parenthood facility is built.
The city council of East Mountain agreed to an ordinance effectively prohibiting abortion within city limits in a 3-0 vote with 2 abstentions.
Pro-life Texans have requested courts to declare use of the term "criminal" in describing abortion advocacy groups as "truthful" and "non-defamatory."
Several pro-choice organizations are filing lawsuits alleging that being called a "criminal organization" is defamatory. The pro-life defendants maintain that the claim is legally accurate.
After filing the lawsuit in February, the ACLU has dropped its litigation against the seven Texas cities that passed ordinances to effectively prohibit abortion.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two pro-choice activist organizations in Texas against seven cities that have declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn."
