Portland scraps Texas boycott plan over state's abortion law
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Portland, Oregon, abandoned plans this week to ban city business with Texas over the Lone Star State's controversial new abortion law amid worries it would hurt the Texans most affected by it.
The sole "no" vote was by Commissioner Mingus Mapps, who said he was "mystified" by the allocation of funds.
"Our city is overwhelmed by multiple crises. This council should focus on solving those," he said. "We have a gun violence crisis. We have a homelessness crisis. We have a trash crisis. And we have a pandemic."
Mapps said he opposes the Texas law that went into effect earlier this month.
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