The Amarillo Area Young Republicans announced their support for the city’s pro-life proposition on the General Election ballot. Proposition A would make Amarillo a sanctuary city for unborn children.
In 2022, Texas’ abortion trigger law banning abortion within the state took effect after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v Wade. Nevertheless, several cities and counties across the state have passed Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinances, further protecting the lives of unborn children by declaring abortion to be murder, prohibiting abortion facilities from operating in city limits, and prohibiting abortion trafficking and abortion-inducing drugs within the city limits.
This past June, the Amarillo mayor and city council rejected a proposed SCFTU ordinance. The SCFTU Citizen Initiative Petition Initiative Committee met soon after the rejection and voted to submit the ordinance to be put on the November ballot.
Within the Prop A ballot initiative, these provisions would prohibit the following within the city of Amarillo:
- the performing of elective abortions and aiding elective abortions from the time of conception
- elective abortions, abortion trafficking of residents, and abortion trafficking of an unborn child
- abortion-inducing drugs
- organizations violating federal abortion laws from doing business or receiving grants from the city
- the transportation and disposal of the remains of unborn children killed by elective abortions
The proposed ordinance is enforced the same way as the Texas Heartbeat Act, by giving standing to private citizens to sue those who break the ordinance. Law enforcement is prohibited from enforcing this ordinance in any way.
Attorney Jonathan F. Mitchell, who represented Lubbock when Planned Parenthood sued to try and stop their SCTFU ordinance from going into effect, has offered to represent Amarillo if the need arises at no cost to the taxpayers or the city of Amarillo.
Prop A directly aligns with the Republican Party of Texas platform, as the Amarillo Young Republicans stated in their press release. “At the end of the day, we are a Republican youth organization who seek to educate people on the Republican Party platform and promote measures that will fulfill it. Since the proposed Amarillo Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance directly fulfills multiple Party Platform Planks of the latest edition of the Party Platform of the Republican Party of Texas, we offer our unwavering support for Prop A.”
The Amarillo YR’s full list of recommendations for their local ballot can be viewed here.
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