Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Thursday that investigating abortions under the state’s near-total ban is the city’s “lowest priority” when it comes to crime.
Matt Slinkard, the city’s executive assistant police chief, acknowledged the city is duty-bound to enforce the law, but said Houston Police Department officers would remain “laser-focused” on violent crime. Police officials told City Council this week that violent crime is down 10 percent year-over-year, though it remains above pre-pandemic levels.
Slinkard said he was not aware of any complaints filed with the department since the law took effect last week. The mayor alsoto District Attorney Kim Ogg outlining those priorities, pointing out that Houston now is the largest city in America without abortion services. “I intend to remind Houstonians that no law exists, which punishes a pregnant person for seeking care and urges pregnant people who are concerned about their health to seek medical care with their physician, an ER or urgent care center and commit to protect any individual seeking such care from frivolous prosecution,” Turner wrote.
Even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, district attorneys in some of Texas’ largest counties saidabortion-related cases. Ogg criticized the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe, but stopped well short of suggesting her office would not prosecute cases under the state’s trigger law. Prosecutorial decisions, she said in June, will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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