MAGA Texans Working To Sabotage Abortion In NM And Everywhere Else

The rabid anti-abortionists in Texas aren’t satisfied with threatening the health and bodily autonomy of women in their own state. They are now pressuring and literally dictating anti-abortion laws in the neighboring state of New Mexico. And their designs don’t stop there.

Source NM has been reporting on this encroachment:

Abortion rights opponents in Texas dictated terms and pressured officials in New Mexico municipalities to pass ordinances restricting clinics, according to public records — potentially as part of a bigger legal strategy.

Emails show former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell and Mark Lee Dickson, founder of the “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn” initiative, succeeded in influencing local governments in rural parts of the state — despite warnings and hesitation from local officials.

In late 2022 and early 2023, the New Mexico cities of Clovis and Hobbs passed ordinances saying people have no right to violate the Comstock Act of 1873, a previously obscure federal statute that bans the mailing of abortion pills or abortion-related materials. They were later joined by Eunice and Edgewood, and Roosevelt and Lea Counties.

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