Texas Abortion Ban Creator Sets Sights on Obscene Books in Public Libraries
February 19, 2023 | Texas
A Texas lawyer who created a highly successful abortion ban tactic has now turned his hand to stopping obscene library books.
Jonathan Mitchell, a Texas lawyer, was influential in developing a series of local abortion bans. They allowed towns to ban abortions even before the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
The bans had two enforcement mechanisms. Family members could sue those involved in the abortion, and a $2,000 fine for any abortion performer would fall after the end of Roe v. Wade.
Mitchell has offered a similar strategy to ban libraries from including books with obscene content.
According to an online post by Star Republican Women, Llano County, the vice chair of Texas’s library advisory board, Bonnie Wallace, knows Mitchell has a project in mind.
The post shared a photo of a message from Wallace.
Mitchell plans to craft municipal ordinances that “would immediately make pornography in the libraries illegal,” the message says…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)
