'We don’t even have enough law enforcement here to take care of the business here in Mitchell County,' the county commissioner said. 'It's unenforceable.'
The ordinance, crafted by the architects of Texas’ SB8 law , uses SB8’s same enforcement policy via private lawsuits. It makes it illegal to “knowingly transport any individual for the purp
ose of providing or obtaining an elective abortion” if one’s travel to an abortion clinic “begins, ends, or passes through” the county, framing this as ““We’re just looking at every way to close off any loophole imaginable,” Mark Lee Dickson, a pastor and director of Texas Right to Life, toldof the Mitchell County measure he helped create.
But now, the Mitchell County commissioner, Dennis Jones, says the measure he voted for holds no real weight. “Unless they’ve got a billboard on top of the car, who’s gonna know they’re going somewhere to get an abortion? It’s unenforceable,” he told, adding, “We don’t even have enough law enforcement here to take care of the business here in Mitchell County.
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