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Re: Texas Doctor: I Defied Abortion Ban—Come Get Me

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 19 Sep 21 4:52 PM | 13 view(s)
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For me, it's not a bad idea for governments to make laws where there are different interests in play.

But where the federal and state laws conflict, then you want the courts to sort things out.

Sentience is the normal way to strike a balance about foetal "rights" during a pregnancy.

I accept this as a definite limit. But I prefer to think in terms of the responsibility of those who perform to test themselves within a reasonable period of time, which might mean 13 weeks or it might mean less.

I don't think people who sincerely use the heartbeat as a means of determining life are wicked. They are pro-choice, not pro-life puritans. They just draw the line in a different place.

Nearly everyone agrees that foetal interests and the interests of women both exist. It's working out where each one has priority that is hard.

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Texas Doctor: I Defied Abortion Ban—Come Get Me
By: clo2 in ALEA
Sun, 19 Sep 21 4:08 PM 		Msg. 43477 of 54959

Texas Doctor: I Defied Abortion Ban—Come Get Me

A longtime Texas obstetrician came forward Saturday to publicly reveal that he had defied Texas’ new draconian abortion ban in a bid to test its legality. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Dr. Alan Braid said he’d “provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state’s new limit” on Sept. 6, days after the law took effect. The law, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 1, empowers ordinary citizens to sue anyone they perceive to have “aided and abetted” the procedure or to have performed it. “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,” Braid wrote. “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.” Braid said he’d seen the horrors of abortion being outlawed firsthand when he had just begun his residency in 1972 and watched “three teenagers die from illegal abortions” in a single year. He felt compelled to act now, he said, because, “For me, it is 1972 all over again.”

Read it at Washington Post
http://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-doctor-alan-braid-i-defied-abortion-bancome-get-me?via=newsletter&source=Weekend

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