{"id":1120383,"date":"2022-04-26T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1120383"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:53:47","slug":"group-wants-athens-to-be-sanctuary-city-for-the-unborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1120383","title":{"rendered":"Group wants Athens to be sanctuary city for the unborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/index-5-175x45.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"45\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1120384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/index-5-175x45.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/index-5.png 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>ATHENS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A group of East Texans is pushing to make Athens a sanctuary city for the unborn. According to our news partner KETK, more than 40 cities throughout the state have already done this, including some in East Texas. People in support of the ordinance gathered ahead of the City Council meeting Monday.  In a statement, the city said it has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no legal authority regarding abortions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  But the group is pressing forward.  In the event that Athens City Council does not take up the ordinance, they say they will take the issue to the voters, as was done in Lubbock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A group of East Texans is pushing to make Athens a sanctuary city for the unborn. According to our news partner KETK, more than 40 cities throughout the state have already done this, including some in East Texas. People in support of the ordinance gathered ahead of the City Council meeting Monday. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1120383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Group wants Athens to be sanctuary city for the unborn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1120388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/index-5-175x45.png","fifu_image_alt":"Group wants Athens to be sanctuary city for the unborn","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 04:53:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/index-5-175x45.png","fifu_image_alt":"Group wants Athens to be sanctuary city for the unborn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120386,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120383\/revisions\/1120386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}