Family Law Prof Blog

Editor: Margaret Ryznar
Indiana University
Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Friday, June 14, 2019

All Male Council in Texas Vote to Ban Abortion

From The Guardian:

The entirely white male council of Waskom in Texas has voted to make the small town a “sanctuary city for the unborn”.

The five men on the town’s council voted this week to pass legislation known as an ordinance, which declared Roe v Wade, the landmark supreme court decision which legalized abortion, “unconstitutional”.

The move, which is itself unconstitutional, comes after a raft of abortion bans have passed in states from Missouri to Ohio.

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