Posted on 07/12/2021 10:14:21 AM PDT by Marchmain
The City of Centerville, Texas just became the 33rd in the United States to ban abortions by passing a Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance.
On Wednesday, the city council unanimously approved the pro-life ordinance in a 5-0 vote, according to Texas Scorecard.
Mayor Nolan Ray Goolsby said he supported the pro-life ordinance against the recommendations of the city attorney and state municipal leaders.
“I had our secretary check with our attorney in Waco, and he advised us to not take any action. We called [Texas Municipal League], and they told us the same thing,” Goolsby said. “But I want to go from my heart and what I have been praying about this.”
Mark Lee Dickson, director with Right to Life of East Texas and founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn initiative, said they later learned that the city attorney is married to an abortion activist and former Planned Parenthood board member.
Dickson said leaders of Centerville (population 892) received hundreds of petitions from residents urging them to pass the ordinance.
He said one came from Carly Hickman, who shared how her mother, single and caring for two young children, found herself pregnant for a third time despite having had her tubes tied.
“The reality is not lost on me that I was the prime target for an abortion,” Hickman said. “… I could have been aborted, but [I] obviously wasn’t. Thirty years of marriage later, my parents went on to have three more children after me … a total of 17 grandchildren altogether, and one more on the way! So, lest you think that just one life is saved when the unborn are protected from abortion, think again.”
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Nice to see the pushback and using their own language and tactics against them.
Way to go Centerville!
Praise God!
How is it not legal malpractice for the city attorney to give faulty legal advice because of his personal opinion (married to a baby killer activist)?
Maybe we should let this sanctuary city stuff roll. Abortiionist, illegal alien, defund police, gun control cities vs. prolife, 2nd Amendment, free speech, law and order.
I wonder which cities folks would gravitate to or stay away from in time???
What the Left “invented” - “sanctuary cities” (for rejecting federal immigration authority) - others are now adopting. Maybe what the Left didn’t realize, or simply ignored, is that the basic impetus is a rejection of federal authority; which can work both ways.
Is Texas (Except Austin) to be the capitol of the United States 2.0?
Thank you God!!
Meanwhile, more and more left coasters and northeasterners continue to move to Texas. I just hope they leave their politics behind.
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