{"id":56372,"date":"2023-12-25T03:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56372"},"modified":"2023-12-25T03:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:14:41","slug":"abortion-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56372","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo wants to govern traffic to fight abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amarillo’s five-member — and all-male — city council has me scratching my noggin over a highly dubious law it is considering for approval.<\/p>\n

Let’s see how this works. The city is considering a ban on people using public roadways if they intend to travel through the city to obtain an abortion.<\/p>\n

This prompts what — to me, at least — is an obvious question: How in the name of Big Brother does the city enforce such a law?<\/em><\/p>\n

Amarillo, where I lived for 23 years before my wife and I relocated to the D\/FW Metroplex, is the largest Texas city to ponder such a screwball idea. The city is getting plenty of pushback on it and the council so far is unable to make a decision.<\/p>\n

This week, the council conducted a special meeting at the civic center to accommodate the crowd attending, but it didn’t allow any public comment.<\/p>\n

This notion is being pushed by those on the far right who oppose abortion to the extent that they want to make it illegal for a woman to obtain one. The Amarillo City Council is considering whether to weigh in on it.<\/p>\n

I am shaking my head over this goofy notion. I want to stipulate that the council contains not a single woman. These all are men making a decision that involves whether a woman<\/em> can control her body.<\/p>\n

I’ll get back to my point, which is that such a law is unenforceable! How do police track the traffic? How does anyone determine whether an occupant in the vehicle is heading for an out-of-state medical clinic to obtain an abortion?<\/p>\n

And aren’t the right-wingers of this world opposed to big government, that they oppose the Big Brother imposing his will on the people? Oh, wait. I almost forgot! Their anti-Big Brother posture applies only to those issues that don’t get ’em all riled up.<\/p>\n

This is about the slipperiest slope I have ever seen … ever!<\/p>\n\n

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Amarillo’s five-member — and all-male — city council has me scratching my noggin over a highly dubious law it is considering for approval. Let’s see how this works. The city is considering a ban on people using public roadways if they intend to travel through the city to obtain an abortion. This prompts what — … Continue reading Amarillo wants to govern traffic to fight abortion?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[122,276,7419],"class_list":["post-56372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-medical-news","tag-abortion","tag-amarillo","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56373,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56372\/revisions\/56373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}