So much for licensing: Murderous Texas doctor says he violated the state's strict new abortion law

A Texas doctor is publicly revealing that he violated a state law that bans abortions after six weeks and says he is inviting legal challenges under the controversial law, which has so far withstood efforts by pro-abortion rights supporters to block it.
"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," Dr. Alan Braid, a physician in San Antonio, Texas, wrote in an op-ed published Saturday in The Washington Post.
"I fully understood that there could be legal consequences — but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn't get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested," he wrote.

The comments are the first public admission that a physician decided to perform the procedure after the law was on the books and will likely trigger new legal proceedings. The law was written specifically to make it very difficult to challenge, and some abortion providers have said that they planned to abide by it to avoid severe consequences.

Braid wrote that he is affiliated with the Center for Reproductive Rights, the group that is already in federal court fighting the law.
"Dr. Braid has courageously stood up against this blatantly unconstitutional law. We stand ready to defend him against the vigilante lawsuits that S.B. 8 threatens to unleash against those providing or supporting access to constitutionally protected abortion care," Nancy Northup, the center's president and CEO, said in a statement.
Texas Right to Life, a prominent advocate for the abortion ban, told CNN that the group "is looking into" Braid's claim that he violated the law but that they "are dubious that this is just a legal stunt."
"The abortion industry has struck out on their 16 previous attempts to stop this law from saving lives so far and this may be another attempt," John Seago, the group's legislative director, said in a statement.

.https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/19/politics/texas-doctor-violated-abortion-ban/index.html

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So much for licensing: Murderous Texas doctor says he violated the state's strict new abortion law

So much for licensing: Murderous Texas doctor says he violated the state's strict new abortion law

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