Residents of Abilene, Athens, San Angelo, and Plainview adopted ordinances further protecting the rights of unborn children in those cities.
Abilene, Athens, San Angelo, and Plainview will decide whether to join the over 40 municipalities that have become “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn."
A jury convicted the 52-year-old former police chief on charges of bribery and honest services mail fraud.
"It's wonderful," Socha said of the Texas abortion ban, "But it doesn't do away with people who have crisis pregnancies and need help.”
Many of the children, whose ages ranged from 10 to 17, were victims of sex trafficking and suffered both physical and sexual abuse.
The proposed ordinance is no longer in the council’s hands at this point. The citizens of San Angelo will pass or reject it at the ballot box.
Citizens supporting a local abortion ban say San Angelo leaders decided the proposal's fate before the outward political process began.
Over the protests of residents that led the petition effort, the San Angelo City Council effectively set the vote for November, not May.
The activist behind the initiative says it's common for city leaders in Republican areas to avoid the proposal.
A new rail port in San Angelo aims to help alleviate highway traffic and provide more efficient transportation for industries in the Concho Valley.
