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BY EDGAR WALTERS Texas Tribune JOAQUIN — Blount down a state highway to Pharmacy, the lone drug the CVS in Center. The store in this small town nearest abortion clinnestled deep in the for- ic is 50 miles away and ested Bible Belt of East across the state line in Texas, doesn’t sell emer- Shreveport, La. gency contraception But that didn’t discoursuch as Plan B — that age the city council of requires a 15-mile trip Joaquin, population 900,
from passing a sweeping ordinance in September to declare itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” The local order — of contested legality and enforceability — aims to outlaw abortion and Plan B if one day the U.S. Supreme Court makes it possible to do so. It declares certain abortion
providers and their supporters “criminal organizations.” And it grants the family members of women who have abortions or use emergency contraception the ability to sue the provider for emotional distress. “We want to send the statement: We don’t want you here,” Joaquin
Mayor Bill Baker said equate abortion with of abortion “murder providers. with mal“Our counice aforecil voted thought.” the way Activists that they hope to thought persuade our citi- Lucy Cummings, 67, a 50-year resi- o f f i c i a l s zens felt. dent of Joaquin and a supporter of in dozthe recent anti-abortion ordinance, T h e r e ’ s stands on her front porch with her ens more Brystal. | by Ben been no granddaughter, cities, in Fenton for The Texas Tribune backlash.” Texas and Local conbeyond, to servatives, frustrated by adopt similar rules — poa perceived unwilling- tentially provoking a leness of the Texas Leg- gal challenge that could islature to sufficiently add to a raft of national curtail abortion rights courtroom showdowns — and with encourage- over abortion rights. ment from a traveling Joaquin Mayor Bill activist who compares Baker explains the reaabortion to the Holocaust son behind the anti-abor— joined an emerg- tion ordinance that the ing movement of small town recently passed. towns near the Louisiana Baker is serving his secborder. ond non-consecutive Four other towns have term as mayor. passed similar ordinancBen Fenton for The es; some, like Joaquin’s, Texas Tribune
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