New Mexico Supreme Court blocks local ordinances banning abortion

[In It to Win It]

If I'm not mistaken, the legislature in New Mexico has already passed legislation that overrides the local ordinances banning abortion.

Alex Ross
@Alexrosstweets

New Mexico Supreme Court announces they granted a state request that temporarily blocks the enforcement of municipal and county laws banning access to abortion services from being enforced in an ongoing case.

Since the Dobbs Decision overturning the federal right to an abortion last year the cities of Hobbs, Clovis and Eunice as well as Roosevelt and Lea counties have passed laws restricting access to abortion services within thier jurisdictions putting it at odds with the state.

Alex Ross
@Alexrosstweets

Order issued by the New Mexico Supreme Court granting state's request for a stay temporarily blocking local and county enforcement of laws that restrict abortion services.

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[Sky Jewels]

1. Ugh -- Hobbs. It figures.

When I was a kid we used to have to go to Hobbs (from the SF Bay Area, no less) to visit relatives. That town is part of the reason I became a liberal early on. I hated everything about fucking Hobbs, NM (including the lack of zoning, making it devoid of any charm whatsoever) and I realized my values were polar opposites to the rightwing idiots who lived in that shithole. (Disclaimer, theoretically, I'm sure there were some Hobbsians in the 1960s-80s who weren't right wing idiots ... maybe ...).