Cedar Park Council Member Tim Kelly has asked for a proposed ordinance that bans abortions in the city to be placed on the council’s next agenda.
Mayor Corbin Van Arsdale did not immediately responf to a request for comment on Tuesday about whether he would place the request on the agenda for the next meeting on Sept. 24.
The proposed ordinance, outlawing abortion and making Cedar Park a “sanctuary city” for the unborn, has been passed by several other cities in Texas.
“The mayor is all for protecting the life of the terrestrials with his mask mandate,” Kelly said in a text message on Tuesday. “I am sure he will protect the lives of those in the aquatic womb.”
At a City Council meeting in August, Kelly argued with Van Arsdale about whether people should be required to wear masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Cedar Park, along with several other Williamson County cities, issued an order in late June for residents and employees to wear masks in businesses.
Kelly said at the August meeting that he was opposed to any mask mandates.
“I haven’t gotten sick and it’s all about washing your hands. … I request we have an agenda item that removes the disaster declaration,” he said.
He has posted a picture on Facebook of himself in a car wearing a mask that said, “This mask is as useless as our mayor.”
The proposed ordinance against abortions says the Supreme Court erred in Roe v. Wade “when it said that pregnant women have a constitutional right to abort their unborn children as there is no language anywhere in the constitution that even remotely suggests that abortion is a constitutional right.”
The proposed ordinance also says that agencies that perform abortions or assist others in obtaining abortions are declared to be a “criminal organization.”
The American Civil Liberties Union sued seven Texas cities in February that passed ordinances banning abortions but later dropped the suit. The East Texas cities were Rusk, Gary, Waskom, Naples, Wells, Joaquin and Tenaha.
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