NEW ORDINANCES WOULD BAN DRIVING THROUGH CITIES AND COUNTIES EN ROUTE TO ABORTION CARE

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New ordinances would ban driving through cities and counties en route to abortion care
abc13.com

Yup, boarder towns in red states are going to start stopping women as they travel through their towns to make sure they aren't pregnant.

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They basically want border towns to become civilian ran security checkpoints by the sounds of it.

You stop for gas in Bumfuck, TX and the clerk gets to pressure you about what you're leaving the state for. If they think you're "one of those types", this ordinance gives them the authority to make your life a living hell. Doesn't even matter if you're actually getting an abortion, just that they "think" that you are.

This is basically how the Boarder Patrol and Texas Rangers started as slave hunters trying to stop people from escaping to freedom in Mexico.

I thought that said ordnance for a second, and that fit with Texas, so my brain didn't double check at first.