Senate approves bill blocking local anti-abortion ordinances after emotional debate (NM radical Dems want to make sure no local restrictions on baby killing)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | March 7, 2023 | Dan Boyd

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE — A bill that would ban New Mexico counties, cities and other local bodies from denying or restricting access to abortion, other reproductive services and gender-affirming care is on the brink of heading to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk for final approval.

The Senate voted 23-15 to approve the measure on Tuesday, after a nearly three-hour debate that featured the reading of Bible verses, a comparison of abortion to the Holocaust and several senators speaking about their own experiences.

Backers said the legislation, House Bill 7, would ensure local governments could not interfere with women’s access to reproductive care, after several counties and cities in eastern New Mexico recently adopted anti-abortion ordinances.

However, Senate Republicans described the bill as immoral and proposed a string of amendments seeking to require a women to get an ultrasound before an abortion, mandate parental consent before a minor could get an abortion and remove a provision allowing for plaintiffs who file successful lawsuits under the proposed law to collect attorney’s fees.

But those proposed amendments were all voted down by majority Senate Democrats ... The final vote to approve the bill largely broke down along party lines, too ...

This year’s debate comes two years after Lujan Grisham signed a bill repealing a long-dormant New Mexico abortion ban. That 1969 law could have been invoked a year later, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

While Texas and some other neighboring states have restricted abortion in the wake of the ruling, top Democratic officials in New Mexico have vowed to ensure the procedure remains legal statewide.

Previously Lujan Grisham issued an executive order shielding abortion providers and those traveling to New Mexico to get an abortion from arrest warrants and other legal repercussions.

[CedarDave]

For emphasis:

top Democratic officials in New Mexico have vowed to ensure the procedure remains legal statewide.
And it includes no-restriction abortion up to birth!!

The legislation already passed the NM House on a 38-31 vote last month.

In January, NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez (a Soros backed/financed AG) asked the NM Supreme Court to intervene after the cities of Hobbs, Clovis and Eunice, along with Lea and Roosevelt counties, enacted local abortion restrictions, saying the ordinances overstepped the local governments’ authority.

[Made In The USA]

Abortion right up to birth... We have some really disturbed people in law making positions. Psychotic, evil people.

[CedarDave]

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[HighSierra5]

All of these abortion rights advocates will be aborted from heaven.

[antidemoncrat]

Satan’s Army can’t stand a day to pass without thousands of babies being slaughtered.

[LegendHasIt]

I just wish the mothers of the 23 Senators voting for this (and The Governor’s mother) had been as militant about abortion as they are.

Just imagine how much better off NM would be without them.

[laplata]

It goes without saying that these creatures are Demonically driven.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am glad to have been born there when it was still safe to be born there. 1946.

Who knows! Maybe they will soon begin a “Fourth Trimester” demand, after birth abortions of the living by feeding the young to the coyotes and by exposure.

[CedarDave]

Here in Oil Patch City, we are only four miles from the Texas state line. Already we have a pot shop on about every corner and are third or fourth in state revenue selling legal marijuana. However, when a Texas abortion company had eyes on a piece of property previously occupied by dentist or MD, the word got out and protests became well attended. That’s when the city crafted an ordinance prohibiting abortion materials and drugs from being imported into the city. Apparently there is a federal ordinance preventing abortion materials from crossing statelines or being delivered via USPS.

[sauropod]

I don’t care if they are emotional. Too bad.

[aimhigh]

How can this do this, yet call their state an illegal sanctuary? Rules for thee, but not for me?

[VinnieCCT]

Queue the drawing of the people sacrificing babies to the sex god.