The San Clemente City Council has voted to remove a resolution that would ban abortions in the city from its Aug. 16 meeting.
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Major Gene James took responsibility for holding the special meeting on short notice."We did rush this, and the reason why we rushed it was many of you wrote to us wanting it rushed," James said. The imbroglio showed how the abortion issue has become a hot-button topic in local governments across the United States in the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 1973's Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legalCouncilwoman Laura Ferguson told City News Service earlier this week that she was approached by James to introduce the resolution last month, but declined. She said Knoblock brought it up at the July 19 meeting.
Ferguson said the resolution would be a"symbolic, non-binding resolution. It has no teeth. It clearly just states the position of someone on the council. I personally believe in a person's liberties and freedoms." "This is akin to The Little Rascals putting on a show,'' Smith said, referring to group of child actors who starred in a series of comedy short films from 1922 to 1944."There's nothing to this, no capacity for this to be successful."
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