Thu Jun 2, 2022 – 5:24 pm EDT
AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — A group of Austin council members want to try to circumvent prohibitions on abortion in the pro-life Lone Star State. The state has a trigger law that will ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is reversed.
José “Chito” Vela has prepared resolution for the liberal city to consider that “restricts city funds from being used to essentially investigate any kind of alleged abortion crimes,” according to comments the councilman made. The resolution would “make the investigation of any abortion-related crime the lowest priority for our police department,” Vela said, according to The Guardian.
“We need them focusing on historically classic criminal activity – not politically disfavored groups that factions in the government want to harass and punish,” Vela said. “That’s the real core of what we’re trying to do.”
Vela will hold the legislation until the expected reversal of Roe v. Wade in June. The Supreme Court is expected to reversed the 1973 decision when it releases its official ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson case that concerns Mississippi’s ban on abortions at 15 weeks.
Vela has titled his proposed law the “Guarding the Right to
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