The city of San Francisco is forbidding city employees from making work-related trips to 22 states that have passed measures protecting the unborn — or as the city refers to them, “restrictive abortion laws.”
In a joint statement, Mayor London Breed and Vallie Brown, a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, announced that the city would no longer conduct business with the states because of their “severe anti-choice” policies.
“Every day in this country, women’s reproductive rights are threatened, and we have to fight back,” declared Breed. “Just as we restricted spending with states that have laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people, we are standing up against states that put women’s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms.”
Brown claimed that “by restricting travel to states with restrictive abortion laws and that limit access to reproductive health, we are showing our commitment to women, trans men, and nonbinary people in San Francisco and across the country.”
The states on the city’s latest ban, which will go into effect January 1, 2020, are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Nine of those states had already been blacklisted by San Francisco for their policies and laws that supposedly discriminate against LGBTQ individuals. Those states are Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas.
Each of the states on the latest ban list has outlawed abortion at between between 13 and 24 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy, while five have attempted to block abortions at six weeks.
Fox News noted that the city’s latest move “comes a little more than a month after its city council passed a resolution calling the National Rifle Association a ‘domestic terrorist organization.’ The NRA quickly filed a lawsuit against the city and Breed eventually said in late September that the resolution would have no effect on city policies.”
In response to the ban, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts tweeted that “Nebraska is a proudly #prolife state, and this demonstrates shocking intolerance by coastal elites that is divisive to our nation.”
Also sounding off was Terrisa Bukovinac of the group Pro-Life San Francisco, who called the ban a “PR tactic” that exposes a growing desperation among the nation’s pro-abortion elites. “This resolution is an attempt to fire up their base,” Bukovinac said, “but I don’t think that even they expect this to stand up to actual scrutiny in a courtroom.”
Evangelist Franklin Graham took to Facebook to note that “progressive socialist leaders like Mayor Breed want everyone to swallow the lie that abortion is a woman’s right — even something to celebrate. But it’s not. Abortion is murdering a child in its mother’s womb.”
Graham added that “I’m thankful to God for the many states and individuals across this great land that are standing for life.”
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