Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of Texas' six-week abortion ban, hit on a legal loophole when he was drafting 'pro-life' city ordinances
report, the origins of S.B. 8—the six-week abortion ban that has been in effect in Texas for well over a week—can be traced back to a Chick-fil-A.In spring 2019, Mark Lee Dickson, the director of the anti-abortion group East Texas Right to Life, was sitting in one of the fast food restaurant’s local franchises, struggling to draft a piece of legislation that would help the city of Waskom, Texas, ban abortion.
; the ordinance was passed unanimously by an all-male city council. Within months similar ordinances were implemented across Texas—usually in small, rural cities that didn’t have any abortion clinics to begin with. But soon enough the legal loophole at the heart of the ordinances—that is, the private enforcement mechanism—succeeded in getting a Planned Parenthood in
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