Local elected officials are moving to protect preborn children from the violence of abortion as Midlothian, Texas became the 68th city to adopt an enforceable ordinance that protects babies from abortion within its limits. To date, 51 cities in Texas, and 17 in other states – Nebraska, Ohio, Louisiana, Iowa, New Mexico, and Illinois – have become sanctuary cities for the unborn.
The Texas counties of Mitchell, Goliad, Cochran, Lubbock, and Dawson have also passed ordinances protecting the preborn from abortion.
Mark Lee Dickson, founder of the Texas-based Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative and a director with Right To Life of East Texas, told CatholicVote that a key focus for the initiative is also on closing up two significant “loopholes”: abortion trafficking— the taking of pregnant mothers across state lines for the purpose of abortion—and the treatment of the bodies of aborted babies as “waste.”
The “waste” loophole allows waste management companies to collect waste from abortion facilities outside of Texas, and bring the contents back to Texas for disposal since there is nothing in Texas law that addresses the issue. The 2017 Texas fetal burial law states that fetal remains at a medical facility in Texas must be disposed of properly through burial or cremation but does not mention out of state abortion facilities creating a “massive loophole” which his organization is seeking to close.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden has been working to weaken the ability of pregnancy resource centers to help women by denying them access to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding in the states which allow it.
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A proposed rule by the Biden administration ‘Strengthening [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)] as a Safety Net and Work Program’, (88 FR 67697), under Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, would prohibit pregnancy centers and alternative-to-abortion programs from receiving millions of dollars a year in TANF funding while directing that same funding to Planned Parenthoods and other abortion centers.
Republicans in the House passed a bill by Reps Michelle Fischbach and Chris Smith, co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting funding for pregnancy centers.
In stark contrast, Pope Francis addressed the duty of governments and civil society to help ensure that women are able to accept the gift of life saying, “Institutions, social and political, have the fundamental duty to protect and promote the dignity of every human being, offering women, the bearers of life, the necessary conditions to be able to accept the gift of life and ensure a dignified existence for their children.”
LifeNews.com Note: Marie Smith is the director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues.
