The Dallas City Council has passed a resolution to limit the use of city resources to investigate potential abortion-related offenses.
Activists protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade in downtown Dallas on June 24, 2022.On Wednesday, council members voted 13-1 in favor of the resolution.
The vote makes Dallas the latest city to pass such a resolution. City councils in Austin and Denton recently passed similar measures. The measure says that “access to safe and legal abortion is a major factor in the long-term health, safety, and quality of life of pregnant people.”, the measure will restrict city resources from being used to conduct surveillance or otherwise investigate abortions or other pregnancy outcomes that violate Texas’ ban on the procedure.
The resolution includes a handful of exceptions. For instance, a city employee can pass on information related to the outcome of a pregnancy or an abortion in order to comply with state or federal law. City employees can also relay such information if it’s done to protect a patient’s reproductive rights.
Speaking by phone the day before the vote, City Council member Adam Bazaldua said:"It's important to emphasize the fact that we have much more important things to spend our resources on within the Dallas Police Department."After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, effectively allowing states to decide on the legality of abortion, several district attorney offices around Texas, including in Dallas County, said they would not prosecute abortion-related charges.
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