Overturning Roe v Wade will promote abstinence, says architect of Texas abortion ban

Jonathan Mitchell writes in supreme court brief that women can control their reproductive lives" without access to abortion'

The legal architect of the Texas abortion ban has argued in a supreme court brief that overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark decision which guarantees a right to abortion in the US, would compel women to practice abstinence as a way to control their reproductive lives".

Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell, who played a pivotal role in designing the legal framework of the state's near-total abortion ban, also argued on behalf of anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life that women would still be able to terminate pregnancies if Roe was overturned by traveling to wealthy pro-abortion" states like California and New York with the help of taxpayer subsidies".