When the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, the conservative majority
claimed the decision merely returned the issue for states to decide. But county commissioners in Texas’ Cochran County, which borders New Mexico, have imposed Texas’ near-total abortion ban on anyone using its roads for an abortion anywhere.
The Texas Tribune has the deets:
The new travel ordinance in Cochran imposes penalties on people using the county’s roads to knowingly transport someone seeking an abortion, but specifies that under no circumstances should the mother in the scenario be subject to prosecution or penalty. Similar to the sanctuary city ordinance, the act would be enforced through private civil lawsuits.
Cochran is not the first Texas county to do this but it is the first one that borders New Mexico, where abortion remains legal.
Sadly, The Tribune noted that the vote was unanimous among the county commissioners and that nobody spoke in opposition to the fascism.
