An update on the anti-abortion ordinance being considered in Bakersfield, California. It's not just Texas which is fighting this battle, there are dozens of local efforts to restrict the right to reproductive health care.
Last month's action:
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The ordinance, if passed, would clumsily define human life as starting at fertilizaton and allow any "aggrieved" person to sue anyone performing an abortion (or following do-not-resuscitate instructions in a hospital, or utilizing in-vitro fertilization) for specified damages. It could also be twisted so as to justify restricting certain forms of birth control.
A quiet Bakersfield City Council meeting for August was convened last night after a long, long, long invocation citing several verses of the Bible and justifying the "In God We Trust" inscription on the chamber wall (another fight for another day.)
The crowd was comparatively sparse given that it was an interim meeting at which nothing substantial was to be decided. Follow me below the orange zygote...
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