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Lubbock, Texas mdash; Lubbock voters have approved a measure aimed at outlawing abortion in the West Texas city, a move likely to prompt legal a
stanley website ction from opponents who call it an unconstitutional ban on the procedure.Residents voted Saturday to declare Lubbock a sanctuary city for the unborn, bypassing the City Council s rejection of the proposal last year over concerns that it would be unen
stanley cup quencher forceable and tie the city up in costly litigation. The proposition was approved with 62% of the vote, according to the unofficial tally from Lubbock County. It was unclear when it would go into effect. Jim Baxa of West Texas for Life celebrated the results.
stanley mugs The Church of Jesus Christ banded together, stepped up to their role, their God-given role, and said we re not going to let babies be killed in our city, he told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. The vote came amid a flurry of measures to restrict abortion that Republican-controlled cities and states have passed with the hope of leading the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Abortion services are available in Lubbock at a Planned Parenthood clinic that opened last year. Sarah Wheat, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, said we are committed to expanding access to abortion and will provide abortion services when possible in Lubbock. The ordinance makes Lubbock the largest U.S. city to outlaw abortion, says CBS Lubbock affiliat Kfem Where Clinton and Sanders stand in the delegate count
Facing skepticism over his call to create private Social Security accounts, President Bush is beginning to emphasiz
stanley mug e the less contentious need to solve the retirement system s long-term fiscal problems. Let s fix this permanently. Let s don t slap a Band-Aid on the problem, Mr. Bush said Friday in Memphis, Tenn. My call to people from both political parties is: now is the time to put aside our political differences and focus on solving this problem for generations of Americans to come. By the end of the day, Mr. Bush s Social Security travels will have taken him to 14 states since his Feb. 2 State of the Union address. Visits to Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona are to come later this month. However, a new poll Associated Press poll released Friday shows Mr. Bush is losing ground in the Social Security debate, with only 37 percent of Americans supporting his approach.The president s drive for private accounts has run up against opposition from cong
stanley website ressional Democrats, who are nearly unanimously against the idea, as well as Republicans nervous about potentially negative political fallout. So, in hopes of making it easier for more Republicans to go along with him, Mr. Bush has been spending more time discussing Social Security s future solvency. He also has focused much of hi
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