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Roe v Wade: Pretty cool while it lasted |
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Sep 21, 2021 - 5:48 AM - by beyelzu
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so I have been reading stories about Gilead er Texas and I have wanted to share them here.
I don't think we have a dedicated reproductive rights thread, sadly, given the current assault on reproductive rights, I think we need one.
After the Texas law went into effect, Alan Braid performed a newly illegal abortion.
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Then, this month, everything changed. A new Texas law, known as S.B. 8, virtually banned any abortion beyond about the sixth week of pregnancy. It shut down about 80 percent of the abortion services we provide. Anyone who suspects I have violated the new law can sue me for at least $10,000. They could also sue anybody who helps a person obtain an abortion past the new limit, including, apparently, the driver who brings a patient to my clinic.
For me, it is 1972 all over again.
And that is why, on the morning of Sept. 6, I provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state’s new limit. I acted because I had a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients, and because she has a fundamental right to receive this care.
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Dr Braid explains himself in this editorial
Now he is being sued as the texas law entails.
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Since the Texas ban took effect Sept. 1, advocates on both sides of the abortion debate have been anticipating such | ... [Read More]
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