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The Seattle City Council has voted in favor<\/a> of a bill making it a “sanctuary city” for abortion. This was passed in spite of the fact that abortion remains legal throughout Washington state.<\/p>\n

The bill was proposed by Councilmember Kshama Sawant at a news conference on June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. “Laws violating basic bodily autonomy and criminalizing reproductive health care are fundamentally unjust and we should not allow Seattle to be complicit,\u201d she said on Tuesday. \u201cLet anyone frightened by draconian anti-abortion laws come to Seattle without fear of prosecution.”<\/p>\n

The bill, which was passed unanimously, bars Seattle police from arresting people on warrants issued in other jurisdictions, as well as from aiding in investigations related to seeking or committing abortions. It’s modeled after Seattle\u2019s Initiative 75, which bans the Seattle Police Department from arresting people on charges relating to cannabis, even though it is still illegal on the federal level.<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0These cities plan to fund abortion in pro-life states<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is the states that have passed draconian anti-abortion laws also make it impossible to be licensed to provide reproductive health care,” Sawant told the Seattle Times. “And as a result, people are forced to find other illegal ways to do the same thing.”<\/p>\n

Councilmember Lisa Herbold also said she wants to expand abortion access for people traveling to Seattle. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to working to find ways to expand abortion access and protect what can only be called medical refugees, people who are coming here and cannot receive basic health care in their home states,\u201d she said. Along with Councilmember Tammy Morales, Herbold introduced a pair of bills<\/a> protecting abortion. The first amends city codes to protect women who undergo abortions, while the second penalizes anyone, including health care providers, from interfering with someone’s decision to undergo an abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to create, as a protected class, people who are seeking abortions, especially because we anticipate that there will be a lot of people coming to Washington seeking care,\u201d Morales said. \u201cWe want to make sure that they aren\u2019t targeted by restaurants or hotels or any other sort of entity that they are visiting while they\u2019re here seeking that care.”<\/p>\n

She added of the second bill, \u201c[It] creates a misdemeanor or a civil infraction for people who encroach on people seeking abortion at a reproductive health care facility, and would also extend to folks who are looking for gender-affirming care.”<\/p>\n

It would also require protesters to remain eight feet away from abortion facilities, although these buffer zones have previously been found unconstitutional<\/a> in the 2014 Supreme Court Case, McCullen v. Coakley<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Both of the bills protecting abortion have been approved in committee and will be voted on by the council on August 9th.<\/p>\n

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