{"id":207768,"date":"2019-07-31T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207768"},"modified":"2019-07-31T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:02:44","slug":"abortion-activists-post-billboard-claiming-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-activists-post-billboard-claiming-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion org puts ‘Abortion is freedom’ billboards in ‘sanctuary city for unborn’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, the city council of Waskom, Texas, voted unanimously<\/a> to establish Waskom as a \u201csanctuary city for the unborn,\u201d determined to keep abortion facilities from setting up shop in the city, and declaring abortion organizations \u201ccriminal.\u201d Weeks later, outside political groups paid to erect two billboards<\/a>\u00a0in the area, claiming \u201cAbortion is Freedom,\u201d with a web address for information about where to undergo the procedure.<\/p>\n

Delma Catalina Limones with NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, one of the groups that funded the billboards, admitted to the Washington Post<\/a> that the groups did not have any contact with residents of Waskom before posting the offensive billboards.<\/p>\n

Attempting to justify the intrusion, Amanda Beatriz, executive director for one of the other abortion groups that paid for the billboards, told the Houston Chronicle<\/a> that the city council\u2019s vote was nothing more than \u201ca dangerous political stunt.\u201d The city council described<\/a> their actions as preemptive; after Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi passed strong pro-life laws, the city council wanted to ensure that abortion facilities would not move into the East Texas town.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-abortion billboards in Oklahoma: \u2018God loves those who have abortions\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n