From Life News: The city of Jewett, Texas just became the 44^th in America to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance that bans all abortions within city limits.

Mark Lee Dickson, director of Right to Life of East Texas and founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn initiative, said the city council approved the pro-life ordinance in a unanimous vote Tuesday.

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“Tonight the City of Jewett, Texas (population 1,250) became the FORTY-FOURTH CITY in the nation, and the fortieth city in Texas, to pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits,” Dickson wrote on Facebook. “The vote by the City Council was unanimous! 5-0! Way to go Jewett, Texas!

To date, 44 cities in Texas, Nebraska and Ohio have passed Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinances that outlaw abortions within city limits.

Pro-life residents of Abilene and San Angelo, Texas, also are working to pass ordinances in their cities this year, potentially by ballot measure if their city councils do not act.

Each ordinance differs slightly in every city, but generally, the Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance makes it “unlawful for any person to procure or perform an abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy” in the city. It also prohibits “any person to knowingly aid or abet an abortion” and treats abortion-inducing drugs as contraband within the city limits.

In most cities, the ordinance has both public and private enforcement mechanisms. The public enforcement mechanism establishes fines against the abortionist and anyone who helps with an abortion within city limits. However, it cannot be enforced until Roe v. Wade is overturned. However, the private enforcement mechanism is immediate. It makes abortionists and those who help them “liable in tort to a surviving relative of the aborted unborn child, including the unborn child’s mother, father, grandparents, siblings or half-siblings,” meaning the abortionist can be sued for aborting an unborn child in violation of the ordinance…

Though abortion activists have threatened legal action, other cities also have been successful in court thus far. In 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union dropped its lawsuit challenging several Texas cities’ pro-life ordinances.

Local efforts to protect unborn babies from abortion are growing. Cities in Ohio and Nebraska also have passed pro-life ordinances that ban abortions. However, two cities did repeal their ordinances: Mason, Ohio and Omaha, Texas.

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