May 21, 2024

An Anti-Abortion Creep: Worse than a Snake in the Grass

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Let me be clear that I mean no disrespect to reptiles when I note that Jonathan Mitchell is a snake.

An extremist right-wing Texas lawyer, Mitchell is actually creepier and all-together more diabolical that your average serpent could think of being. Jonathan slithers around the country as a self-appointed anti-abortion vigilante, terrorizing women’s advocates, health clinics, and doctors. And now (turning truly creepy), he’s singling-out individual womenwith his bullying legalistic theatrics.

By perverting an obscure judicial procedure, called Rule 202, Mitchell threatens to publicly expose and sue women who make an entirely-legal, out-of-state trip to terminate a pregnancy. Moreover, he threatens to sue any of her family, friends, and others who aid or encourage her pursuit of reproductive freedom. Moreover, even without actually suing them, Mitchell proclaims that he can use the coercive power of government to compel each of them to be interrogated.

This gross assertion of theocratic power, wielded by a religious partisan with zero public authority, goes beyond mere tyranny. He is resurrecting the hysterical demagoguery and satanic extremism of Cotton Mather and the Puritan fanatics who fomented the Salem witch trials and executions of the 1690s. Mitchell and his theocratic clique are trying to weaponize Rule 202 so any woman who suffers a miscarriage or is accused by a scorned lover of having an abortion can be subjected to a hostile court-ordered grilling. Mitchell’s witchcrafters don’t need to win or even actually file such frivolous and venomous legal actions, for their goal is raw intimidation. Simply accusing vulnerable women of being abortion witches would force them to hire lawyers and endure public inquisition – or surrender their liberty without due process.

This is Jim Hightower saying… Vipers are not this vicious! To help reject Mitchell’s misogynistic scheme, go to Abortion Access Front: AAFront.org.