In April, Mark Lee Dickson arrived on this 4,500-person metropolis that hugs the Utah-Nevada border to pitch an ordinance banning abortion.

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Andrea Miller, president of the Nationwide Institute for Reproductive Well being, mentioned there’s an irony in Dickson’s multistate effort to cease folks from crossing state strains for reproductive well being care, together with abortion.

“It might be laughable if it weren’t so tragic,” Miller mentioned. “It is an extremely cynical, politically motivated effort largely geared toward sowing confusion and stigmatizing abortion care.”

Miller additionally pointed to different municipalities within the U.S. — city facilities like New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, and extra — which have accepted native ordinances defending and increasing entry to abortion care.

The West Wendover metropolis supervisor, mayor, or council members would want to request that consideration of the proposal be added to a gathering agenda for it to maneuver ahead. Holm, the mayor, mentioned she wouldn’t embody the ordinance for consideration “at any time.” Metropolis Council member Gabriela Soriano, the one lady on the council, mentioned in late April that she was uncertain whether or not different council members would pursue the ordinance.

Holm mentioned she was unaware of any outreach to the town from Deliberate Parenthood Mar Monte about transferring ahead with the clinic.

If the anti-abortion ordinance in West Wendover had been instituted and prevented the opening of a clinic within the metropolis, it will have far-reaching implications for residents. At the moment, they face greater than an hour drive in both route to the closest hospital.

For some neighborhood members, the choice is not so clear-cut.

The Cerros brothers mentioned their mom, who’s Catholic and Hispanic, is in opposition to abortion however in help of the Deliberate Parenthood clinic opening in West Wendover. Years in the past, she had a miscarriage after driving an hour and a half to Salt Lake Metropolis for emergency care.

“There is a large divide between individuals who suppose you are killing infants versus individuals who suppose being pregnant isn’t black and white. Issues come up,” Fernando Cerros mentioned. “Generally you want emergency care. And a clinic like that may assist.”

This text was reprinted from with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Household Basis. Kaiser Well being Information, an editorially impartial information service, is a program of the Kaiser Household Basis, a nonpartisan well being care coverage analysis group unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.