A small Texas town became a “sanctuary city of the unborn” Tuesday night when the city council passed an ordinance banning abortion within the city limits.

The city council for Waskom, Texas, unanimously passed the ordinance over the warnings of the mayor, who said the town may be sued.

The ordinance passed to cheers from the crowd, KTAL reported. It prohibits abortion clinics from opening and declares the town a “sanctuary city” for the unborn.

“We decided to take things into our own hands, and we’ve got to do something to protect our cities and to protect the unborn children,” said Mark Lee Dickson of Right To Life with East Texas.  

Waskom, with a population of about 2,000, does not have an abortion clinic. Supporters of the ordinance call it preventative, KTAL reported.

“Most likely we will end up getting sued if this passes. It could go to the Supreme Court,” Mayor Jesse Moore said during the discussion. 

Alderman Jimmy Dale Moore added, “We don’t have the possibility of millions of dollars to take it to that level. We can’t pay those types of attorney fees.” 

The ban includes exceptions for rape, incest and to save the mother’s life. Waskom is located near the Louisiana border.  

At least two other American cities – Roswell, N.M., and Riverton, Utah – voted this year to become “sanctuary cities” for the…

The Vatican released a document aimed at confronting an “educational crisis” over gender and sexuality. The report, issued by the Congregation for Catholic Education, aimed to address the “disorientation” Catholic leaders see regarding gender, sexuality, and biology. They say this confusion has destabilized “the family as an institution” and sought to “cancel out the differences between men and women” by acting as if they are “merely the product of historical and cultural conditioning.”

The document, titled “Male and Female He Created Them” said the idea of gender fluidity originated because of a “confused concept of freedom” and “momentary desires” which are emblematic of our current culture. It rejected using the terms “intersex” and “transgender” as well as affirming the “complementarity” of male and female sex organs to ensure procreation.

Critics blasted the Vatican both for the report and for the timing of the report, which came during the LGBT Pride Month celebration. New Ways Ministries, an organization of LGBT Catholics, said the document is a “harmful tool that will be used to oppress and harm not only transgender people, but lesbian, gay, bisexual people, too.” The ministry’s leader, Francis DeBernardo, said the report could lead to “self-harm, addiction, and suicide” among LGBT youth.

In a tweet, Jesuit priest and…