He helped craft the 'bounty hunter' abortion law in Texas. He's just getting started

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Attorneys for anti-abortion groups have made a similar argument based on Comstock in an ongoing federal court case challenging access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
49% : So far, abortion rights advocates in Delaware and New Mexico have passed abortion protections that include enforcement using private rights of action.
44% : Asked about that concern, Mitchell said, it "depends on your view of abortion ...
43% : He's cited Comstock in anti-abortion ordinances in New Mexico and Illinois, and he hopes court challenges to those ordinances will provoke the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the law still applies to mailing abortion pills, or any other medical supplies related to abortion.
42% : Residents spent hours debating a local anti-abortion ordinance he helped draft as part of a nationwide effort by a Texas-based group to pass local restrictions on abortion.
42% : "Very little of this has been my own philosophy of abortion that I'm trying to impose.
42% : Mitchell acknowledged that Comstock is "exceedingly broad" and would restrict abortion even more deeply than most abortion-rights opponents would like.
41% : When Mitchell is asked for his own view on abortion, he is difficult to pin down.
40% : That legislation — sometimes called the "bounty hunter law" — pioneered the idea of allowing private citizens to file lawsuits worth tens of thousands of dollars against anyone they suspect of being involved in abortion.
40% : "My experience with [Mitchell] is that he has a very driven strategy to ban abortion by any means necessary," she said.
38% : Mitchell thinks it could be used to ban abortion nationwide.
27% : If you are opposed to abortion, if you think it should be outlawed and criminalized, then the question becomes, how do you have an effective prohibition on abortion?"

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