Planned Parenthood Loses More Ground In Texas With More to Follow
By Brandon Morse | Jun 09, 2021 4:30 PM ET
The city of Lubbock, Texas, took steps to ensure the unborn were safe in their city after its city council passed a unanimous 7-0 decision to ban abortions within its city limits. This would make Lubbock, with a population of nearly 260,000, the largest city to pass such a “sanctuary city for the unborn” law, and joins 22 other Texas cities in doing so.
This threw Planned Parenthood into a fit and challenged Lubbock’s ruling in a federal court. According to the Daily Wire, that challenge has now been dismissed.
Plaintiffs allege the ordinance is invalid because it violates federal constitutional rights, could not validly create civil liability between private parties, and is preempted by state law. But plaintiffs admit that even if the Court gave them everything they wanted, the Court’s ruling would not bar private citizens from bringing suit in state court, bind the state judiciary by its ruling, or force the ordinance’s repeal. Because the ability to remedy a plaintiff’s injury through a favorable decision is a prerequisite to a plaintiff’s standing to sue—an ability absent here—the Court dismisses the case for lack of jurisdiction.
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