{"id":1591841,"date":"2022-08-06T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591841"},"modified":"2022-08-06T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:03:29","slug":"california-city-to-consider-banning-abortions-declare-sanctuary-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-city-to-consider-banning-abortions-declare-sanctuary-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"California City to Consider Banning Abortions, Declare &#8220;Sanctuary for Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-city-to-consider-banning-abortions-declare-sanctuary-for-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Officials in the City of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-san-clemente\">San Clemente<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-california\">California<\/a>, will consider a resolution Aug. 16 that would ban abortion and declare the city a \u201csanctuary for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution defines the beginning of human life to be the moment of conception and would make it the city\u2019s declared duty to protect that life until natural death.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, it would declare the city\u2019s support for the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade and ban the act of abortion, abortion clinics, and abortion pills in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution allows exceptions for women at risk of losing their lives in the process of birth and for victims of rape or incest.<\/p>\n<p>It also suggests that human beings do not have the authority to decide to end the life of the unborn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that life is God-ordained and God is the author and finisher of every life,\u201d the resolution states. \u201c[A]s a city council, we will protect and sustain life at every stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution cites Poelker v. Doe of 1977\u2014a legal precedent that allowed a city in Missouri to refuse to provide publicly funded hospitals for nontherapeutic abortions even though it provided facilities for childbirth\u2014saying that \u201cthe Constitution does not forbid a state or county or city \u2026 from expressing a preference for normal childbirth instead of abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Steve Knoblock, who proposed the resolution, hopes it will help to initiate change within California, considering the current trend in pro-abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ultimate purpose of government is to protect the life and liberty of humans including unborn individuals,\u201d Knoblock told The Epoch Times in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Laura Ferguson told the City News Service Aug. 3 that it was a \u201cdistraction\u201d from more important topics in the city\u2014such as homelessness\u2014when abortion is \u201csomething already legal and codified in state law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the state Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2019s office said access to abortion remains fully protected under state law, according to\u00a0the City News Service.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Mainero, Associate Dean for Chapman University\u2019s law school, told The Epoch Times this resolution would have no legal effect because state law pre-empts city law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia state law permits abortion up to fetal viability and no city can counter that,\u201d Mario said. \u201cThey can\u2019t ban abortion clinics because that would violate state law and they can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-julianne-foster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Julianne Foster\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in the City of San Clemente, California, will consider a resolution Aug. 16 that would ban abortion and declare the city a \u201csanctuary for life.\u201dThe resolution defines the beginning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}