Texas Woman In Legal Peril For Out-Of-State Abortion

The Washington Post reports:

As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat.

Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned.

Davis’s petition was filed under Texas’s Rule 202 by Jonathan Mitchell, a prominent antiabortion attorney known for devising new and aggressive legal strategies to crack down on abortion.

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Mitchell appeared here in 2022 for his lawsuit seeking to block insurance coverage for PrEP medications because they “encourage homosexual behavior.”

Also in 2022, Mitchell filed six separate lawsuits seeking to dismantle LGBTQ rights, including the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.

Jonathan Mitchell—one of Trump’s top lawyers—is asking Texas to investigate a woman who traveled to Colorado for a legal abortion. Mitchell represents the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who’s accusing her of breaking the law by traveling out of state to terminate. https://t.co/OIsSiMbJbF

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 3, 2024