California town strikes resolution to be 'sanctuary for life' just after community outrage

Heather Hamilton

August 07, 12:24 PM August 07, 12:33 PM

After garnering nationwide focus around a proposed resolution that would ban abortion and make the town a “sanctuary for life,” a Southern California metropolis has ditched it.

On Saturday, the San Clemente Town Council held a distinctive meeting and voted 3-1 in favor of hanging discussion of the resolution from its forthcoming Aug. 16 meeting agenda, in accordance to a report.

The only vote to preserve the resolution on the agenda arrived from Councilman Steve Knoblock, who drafted the resolution to say the city “stands firmly against” abortion, acknowledges that lifetime begins at conception, and expresses opposition to Prepared Parenthood clinics in the coastal local community of practically 65,000 people today.

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“We think that everyday living is God-ordained and God is the writer and finisher of each and every lifestyle,” the resolution draft read through. “No make a difference if at the commencing or at the conclude. As a city council, we will protect and sustain daily life at every phase. As we talk to God to bless The us, we 1st have to honor and regard God.”

The resolution, which was predicted to be regarded as at the subsequent town council meeting on Aug. 16, had garnered important opposition.

San Clemente Mayor Gene James, who at first seconded the motion to draft the resolution, claimed he was “embarrassed” by what it turned.

“It appears to me to be a doc that could have been prepared by a Taliban tribunal, and I’ll say that as a conservative, professional-life Republican,” James told the Los Angeles Instances.

The resolution did not specify how the metropolis would implement starting to be an abortion-free zone.

“The simple fact is, California is a point out wherever abortion is legal,” James extra. “There’s absolutely nothing the San Clemente Metropolis Council can do about that irrespective of whether or not we are professional-everyday living or pro-option.”

Knoblock reportedly remains fully commited to the resolution’s requirement following the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the struggle above abortion rights to the states.

“The towns and counties in the state are portion of that course of action,” Knoblock reported. “I just needed our voice to be heard from San Clemente.”

Andrea Schmidt, the community affairs task manager for Planned Parenthood in Orange and San Bernardino counties, said the resolution would “send a information to San Clemente people that their area federal government does not assist their fundamental correct to control their personal physique and access top quality, very affordable health care.”

At the special conference on Saturday, just about 50 folks spoke in opposition to the resolution, in accordance to the San Clemente Situations.

The resolution supplied exceptions for abortions in situations in which the mother’s lifestyle is at chance and in situations of rape or incest, noting that the council would keep on being neutral about this sort of circumstances.