{"id":56374,"date":"2023-12-25T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56374"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:56:14","slug":"amarillo-test-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56374","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo = test case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amarillo, Texas — a city once known as a cradle of the modern conservative movement that reportedly detested government overreach — could find itself becoming a test case for that very premise.<\/p>\n

Its city council is considering whether to invoke a rule barring people seeking abortion from using the city’s public streets to travel to a clinic where a woman can terminate her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

I see this as a Big Brother run amok notion that smacks the idea of limited government squarely in the puss.<\/p>\n

I already have questioned its enforceability. The Big Brother element, though, is a different animal altogether.<\/p>\n

If the city goes through with this numbskull idea, it well could empower police to pull motorists over on a suspicion<\/em> that someone<\/em> in the vehicle is seeking abortion. Why, they cannot use public rights-of-way to do such a terrible thing. What next? Does an arrest follow? Do the cops impound the vehicle and toss its occupants into the slammer?<\/p>\n

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that someone would concoct this intrusive policy proposal. Modern “conservatism” is staring back at the idea that traditional conservatives have had for decades, that government mustn’t be used in this heavy-handed manner.<\/p>\n

It is the MAGA cult movement’s idea of “conservatism.” It’s pure crap!<\/p>\n\n

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Amarillo, Texas — a city once known as a cradle of the modern conservative movement that reportedly detested government overreach — could find itself becoming a test case for that very premise. Its city council is considering whether to invoke a rule barring people seeking abortion from using the city’s public streets to travel to … Continue reading Amarillo = test case<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374","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=56374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56375,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374\/revisions\/56375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}