‘Sanctuary cities for the unborn’: how a US pastor is pushing for a national abortion ban

Mark Lee Dickson is trying to revive a 150-year-old law to pass anti-abortion ordinances across the country where abortion clinics are located

When Amy Hagstrom Miller closed her Texas abortion clinic after Roe v Wade fell, the founder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health wanted to reopen just across the border in New Mexico, to make care as accessible as possible to Texans who could no longer access it in their state. But anti-abortion advocates had other plans.

Hagstrom Miller was considering purchasing a building in the border town of Hobbs...