Column: Crafty lawyering on Texas abortion bill withstood SCOTUS challenge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Mitchell, a former law clerk to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, provided legal advice to anti-abortion advocates in drafting the ordinance, which was copied by about 30 other cities across the state.
49% : The ordinance also delegates enforcement to private citizens bringing lawsuits.
45% : A Texas judge on Friday temporarily barred Texas Right to Life from suing Planned Parenthood to enforce the new law.
39% : As a social policy, the law, which imposes a near-total ban on abortions in Texas but leaves enforcement up to individual citizens, is deeply controversial.
39% : Under the statute, Texas officials have no authority to enforce the new law, which bars abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy.

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