Chris Lange, FISM News
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Voters in San Antonio, Texas overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to codify abortion rights in the city on Saturday. Proposition A would have barred police from investigating or making arrests for illegal abortions.
The ballot measure, which was defeated by a whopping 72% of voters, was packed with a progressive wish list that also included the decriminalization of low-level marijuana possession and a ban on arrests for thefts under $750 and vandalism with damages of less than $2,500. San Antonio police officers would also have been required to issue citations for several nonviolent offenses in lieu of arrests, according to the Texas Tribune.
Amy O’Donnell, communications director at Texas Alliance for Life, applauded San Antonians for voting to protect life while criticizing progressives’ failed attempt to subvert Texas law.
“We hope this defeat sends a strong message to those activists seeking to circumvent statewide laws that protect unborn babies from abortion,” O’Donnell said in a statement. “Gimmicks, like the bundling of the decriminalization of abortion with other measures, did not work in San Antonio. Texans won’t stand for it, and our cities deserve better.”
Abortion activists had gathered enough signatures in February to add Proposition A to the San Antonio ballot for the May 6 election, according to a LifeNews report. O’Donnell said that, had the measure passed, it “would have been tragic for unborn children and victims of trafficking who would have been left without the protection from abortion they deserve by San Antonio police.”
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BABIES’ LIVES SPARED
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the heartbeat bill into law in May 2021, two months prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health that overturned federal abortion rights. The law prohibits elective abortions after six weeks and penalizes abortionists who violate the law. Exceptions are allowed in cases involving forced or coerced abortions or in rare instances when a mother’s life is endangered by her pregnancy. The law does not criminalize mothers seeking abortions.
LifeNews reported separately that pro-life leaders have estimated that the lives of tens of thousands of babies have been spared since the Texas law went into effect. The report cites Texas Health and Human Services data showing that in August 2021, before the law took effect, 5,706 babies were aborted in the state. Data from August 2022 showed no elective abortions in the state while three legal abortions were performed as emergency interventions to save the mothers’ lives.
Texans defied Democrats’ predictions of a blue wave in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, voting to add even more pro-life Republicans to their state legislature in the November 2022 general election.
Lawmakers in the Lone Star State recently approved $225 million in funding to the state Alternatives to Abortion program to assist pregnant women and parenting families in need.
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