![Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, told the Register the judge’s decision “was a really good sign that Planned Parenthood will not have an easy way to dismiss the law in the federal courts.” Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, told the Register the judge’s decision “was a really good sign that Planned Parenthood will not have an easy way to dismiss the law in the federal courts.”](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20210617220628_b61465c9a9491a3c040324133dc7d380f38570b0b419c7f1ef541f22d98a63c7.jpg)
Texas Unborn Sanctuary Bill Passes Key Court Hurdle
A unique arrangement in a Lubbock municipal ordinance, making abortion illegal within city limits, helped lead to the dismissal of a federal court case against it.
A unique arrangement in a Lubbock municipal ordinance, making abortion illegal within city limits, helped lead to the dismissal of a federal court case against it.
With a population of more than 250,000, Lubbock is the largest city to adopt the sanctuary city policy, as well as the first to declare the ban while having an abortion provider within its boundaries.
The decisions come one week after Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, New Mexico, became the first bishop in the United States to lift the ban on public celebration of Mass in his diocese.
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