Posted on 12/03/2025 11:20:11 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A contentious budget resolution the Austin City Council passed last month has changed how city veterinarians spay pregnant cats and dogs, allowing the city to perform abortions without a waiting period.
The resolution from Council Member Krista Laine replaced a 2019 rule that required the Austin Animal Center to hold visibly pregnant animals for two business days before conducting surgery to ensure rescue groups had time to pick them up. That hold-and-notify requirement no longer applies after the passage of Laine’s resolution on Aug. 13, meaning the decision of when to operate is left up to animal center veterinarians.
“We should rely on our highly qualified veterinary staff to make medical decisions, because Austin is a city that believes in science and trusting the experts.”
Laine also cited a cost-savings benefit, noting that 690 animals were born at the animal center in recent years because of delayed transfers, costing the city nearly $279,000 in 2023 alone. While the old rule never banned spay-abortions outright — if no rescue stepped up, veterinarians could proceed — the animal center reported that no visibly pregnant animals had been spayed there since tracking began in 2022.
That’s largely because they are transferred to the city’s largest rescue partner, Austin Pets Alive!, before operations occur.
APA! leaders have opposed the rule change.
President and CEO Dr. Ellen Jefferson told the American-Statesman that removing the rescue-notification step will exacerbate the center’s persistent overcrowding problem because it means more animals will be kept at the facility while recovering from surgery instead of being moved quickly into other shelters.
“It will, without a doubt, make it worse,” she said, noting that APA! absorbs mothers and litters at no taxpayer cost.
APA! currently receives one to two visibly pregnant animals each week from the animal center, she said.
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And why is even a problem.
There was a simple solution on the farm when we had to many animals.
It resulted in fewer animals.
Do a few abortions on these animals and watch the libs heads explode!
Forced abortions? How very CCP. Then again, it’s Austin.
“We should rely on our highly qualified veterinary staff to make medical decisions, because Austin is a city that believes in science and trusting the experts.”
Something tells me this is a democrat that just loves abortion and getting however she can.
Its the libs pushing the abortions on the animals. They got to get their abortion fix however they can.
staying weird
No comment about extending the program to inner-cities
I wonder if this is a sin.
What is needed are no-delay lobotomies for the People’s Socialist Kakistocracy of Austin council members, as well as the Travis County DA.
Whether its human babies or animal babies, some people just love the sport of killing.
Those were your animals though. Should vets and clinics get to bypass waiting periods and other rescue channels when it comes to the fate of stray or lost pets? Should they get to dictate what pets live/die/give birth — and will there be any regulation? Or is it abortion on demand at every stage of a pet’s pregnancy? Do they make a profit by doing these operations? What’s in it for them… 🫤
And of course this culture bridging into the human world is the looming [godless] backdrop…
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