Tue Jan 25, 2022 – 2:18 pm EST
LUBBOCK, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – Planned Parenthood has dropped a lawsuit against an abortion ban in Lubbock, Texas, allowing the city to remain an abortion-free “sanctuary for the unborn” in what pro-lifers are hailing as a “historic victory” for the right to life.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas filed a motion Thursday to withdraw its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that dismissed the lawsuit in June.
Lubbock’s pro-life “sanctuary” ordinance, approved by voters in May 2021, outlaws abortion “at all times and at all stages of pregnancy” within city limits and empowers relatives of an aborted baby, including a child’s mother, father or grandparents, to sue abortion providers for damages.
The measure, which passed 63 percent to 37 percent, also makes it illegal to “knowingly aid or abet an abortion,” such as by providing a mother with transportation or money to abort her baby. It includes exemptions when “necessary to save the mother’s life,” though not in cases of rape or incest.
Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Lubbock to block the policy days after voters endorsed it in May. But Judge James Wesley
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