The abortion war goes local as ACLU lawsuit seeks to thwart town’s abortion ban (Tennessee)

WaPo ^ | Dec, 18, 2019, | Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Ariana Eunjung Cha

[Morgana]

The ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against a Nashville suburb Wednesday to stop a zoning ordinance that effectively bans surgical abortions in the city borders, an antiabortion tactic that is putting town councils on the front lines of one of the most polarizing issues in American life.

The suit, filed on behalf of the nonprofit national women’s clinic carafem, calls the Mt. Juliet city commission’s zoning ordinance “unconstitutional.” The ordinance is part of “the state’s relentless attack on abortion rights, enacting a multitude of restrictions designed to shutter clinics that have provided safe and affordable abortion care and impose unconscionable obstacles,” the lawsuit states.

Two days after the carafem women’s clinic opened, the city commission called a meeting in March with just one item on the agenda: to restrict surgical abortion clinics to industrial zones. Carfem, which provides a range of women’s health-care services, had opened its clinic in a commercial-zone complex with other medical offices.

The meeting lasted four minutes and the ordinance passed unanimously. It also bans surgical abortions from being performed within 1,000 feet of churches, school grounds, public libraries or child care facilities, said Andrew Beck, senior staff attorney for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.

“This means there’s actually no plot of land in the entire city where they could perform an abortion in the office,” said Beck said. “This is about Mt. Juliet’s politicians feeling emboldened and trying to obstruct their citizens access to abortion.”

Several cities have used zoning restrictions to create prohibitive hurdles for abortion clinics in recent years, said Andrea Miller, president of The National Institute for Reproductive Health, a group that advocates for abortion and contraception access.

[cloudmountain]

Abortion IS a life and death issue, not an "antiabortion tactic."
What is more important than the God-given GIFT of a child?

[I-ambush]

Well, God bless them.

[shanover]

Civil liberties for the baby killers: what a great country America turned into.

[Torahman]

Protest Protest Protest these ACLU terrorists whenever and wherever they come out of their holes to knaw on the heels of Lady Liberty. Confront them and make life miserable for them; they have no trouble tearing healthy babies to pieces in the womb. Challenge them to pick on somebody their own size. They are evil.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

The pro life people need to find out where the ACLU lawyers live and make it a point to throw buckets of red paint on their doorsteps, office doors, and wherever these enemies of good show their faces in public.