Doctor defies restrictive Texas abortion law, says in op-ed he ‘had a duty of care’
As the fight to end Texas’ new restrictive abortion ban continues, a Texas doctor revealed Saturday that he violated the law by performing an abortion days after the law went into effect. The San Antonio doctor, identified as Dr. Alan Braid, shared his story in an op-ed published in The Washington Post titled “Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban.” In it, he revealed that he’d given an abortion to a woman in her first trimester on Sept. 6.