Architect of state’s six-week ban asks for information including identity of people who may have helped patient get abortion
The attorney and architect of thesix-week abortion ban has asked several Texas abortion funds to hand over information about every abortion that they have “assisted or facilitated in any way” over the last two years, including details about the abortion provider, the city and state where the abortion patient lived, as well as the identity of every person – other than the patient themselves and their family members – who may have helped the patient get the abortion.
The requests were filed on behalf of a defendant in the case represented by Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general who is credited with coming up with the novel legal strategy that undergirds the Texas six-week abortion ban, which flew in the face of Roe v Wade when it was enacted in September 2021.