Another County in Texas Has Banned Abortion-Related Travel

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Lubbock County near New Mexico, with a population of 300,000, is the latest county to pass a law banning anyone from traveling on county roads for an abortion.

Shortly after Roe v. Wade fell, abortion funds across Texas paused their operations out of fear of facing criminal charges or costly lawsuits for helping people get care. For a stretch of time, the Texas-based Buckle Bunnies Fund became the only fund to financially support abortion seekers in the state. Executive director Makayla Montoya Frazier told the Texas Standard earlier this year that during this period, the fund received nearly 70 assistance requests per day.

“We’re just looking at every way to close off any loophole imaginable,” Mark Lee Dickson, a pastor and director of Texas Right to Life, told Rolling Stone in September of the Mitchell County measure he helped create. Wendy Davis, a former state senator and current senior adviser at Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, told the Tribune, “This is an effort, one by one by one, to create a statewide ban against travel to other states, literally creating a reproductive prison in the state of Texas.

 

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