By Dominic Taylor-
Democratic cities are joining forces to mitigate the effects of the Republican-run state’s near-total abortion ban after the U.S supreme court voted in June to overturn Roe v Wade- the landmark case law that gave Americans a constitutional right to terminate their pregnancies.
Texas’s capital, Austin, last week passed the Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for Everyone (Grace) Act. The passing of the Grace Act redirect the city’s budget to focus on going after more important crimes such as sexual assault, theft and burglary.
The move by Austin is gradually spreading to other defiant cities which are finding their own strategy to weaken the effect of the new law on vulnerable women.
San Antonio is also planning to establish laws that protect vulnerable women affected by the new laws on abortion.
On Wednesday, the mayor, Ron Nirenberg, and the city council gathered on the steps of city hall to announce the consideration of a similar resolution in support of reproductive rights.
However, there are concerns that the Republican party will identify ways to close potential loopholes or protections for those who wish or need to seek access to an abortion.
Clinics offering abortion care in 11 U.S states that have implemented total or six-week bans in the month since the supreme court overturned abortion rights has dropped from 71 to 43, a study shows.
Americans are very angry and horrified with current Supreme Court made laws which seem to deny basic rights to fit the individual agendas of judges themselves.
Only recently , The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to strike down a New York gun law that required people to demonstrate a clear need before they could obtain a concealed carry license. The court held that this was a violation of Second Amendment rights
On Wednesday, a plea from a 12-year-old girl has gone viral after she spoke to West Virginia Republican lawmakers during a public hearing for an abortion bill that would prohibit the procedure in nearly all cases.
Addison Gardner of Buffalo middle school in Kenova, West Virginia, was among several people who spoke out against a bill that would not only ban abortions in most cases but also allow for physicians who perform abortions to be prosecuted.
Addressing the West Virginia house of delegates, Gardner, among about 90 other speakers, was given 45 seconds to plead her case.
“My education is very important to me and I plan on doing great things in life. If a man decides that I’m an object and does unspeakable and tragic things to me, am I, a child, supposed to carry and birth another child?” Gardner said.
The new law established by the Supreme Court is believed to have been engineered and influenced by former president Donald Trump, who himself failed to get any of his appointed judges to overturn the U.S 2020 election results.
However, he manged to achieve influencing the already conservative evangelical christian judges to go against abortion rights in a show of vengeance against decade old laws that in their view have not respected the right to life.