Texas official says travel bans being pushed by anti-abortion activists are “unenforceable”
“We’re just looking at every way to close off any loophole imaginable,” Dickson says. Since it passed in Mitchell County in July, a similar ordinance was also adopted in Goliad County. Two other Texas counties — Llano and Mason — have also considered the proposal.Rolling Stone
the county was united around the idea of becoming one of Dickson’s “sanctuary” counties, but he said the clause prohibiting abortion “trafficking” was an afterthought. “All we wanted to do was keep the abortion clinics out of Mitchell County,” Jones says. When the commission was given a draft of the ordinance, Jones says, it included the language about the highways. “I don’t know why it was necessary; it was just part of the bill that was brought in front of us,” Jones adds.
Jones says he is not a lawyer, or a career politician — his day job is an equipment operator: “maintainers, loaders, rollers, dump trucks” — but he doesn’t see how the “trafficking” element of the ordinance could ever be enforced. “Unless they’ve got a billboard on top of the car, who’s gonna know they’re going somewhere to get an abortion?” Jones asked. “It’s unenforceable.”
Even if it were enforceable, Jones adds, “We don’t even have enough law enforcement here to take care of the business here in Mitchell County. We’re a very, very small county; we’re not wealthy by any means. agreed with Jones. That person pointed out two distinct legal issues. First is the private enforcement mechanism copied from S.B. 8 : three separate Texas judges have signaled the mechanism is unconstitutional.
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