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Texas doctor publicly admits violating GOP's anti-abortion law: 'I had a duty of care'

Dr. Alan Braid publicly admitted that he violated the near-total ban on abortions in Texas during the first week after the law went into eff

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Dr. Alan Braid publicly admitted that he violated the near-total ban on abortions in Texas during the first week after the law went into effect.

In an op-ed published online by The Washington Post on Saturday, Dr. Braid discussed graduating from the University of Texas medical school in 1972, before the Roe v. Wade decision.

[karadin]

At the hospital that year, I saw three teenagers die from illegal abortions. One I will never forget. When she came into the ER … she died a few days later from massive organ failure, caused by a septic infection,“ he explained. “In medical school in Texas, we’d been taught that abortion was an integral part of women’s health care. When the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, recognizing abortion as a constitutional right, it enabled me to do the job I was trained to do.”

I have spent the past 50 years treating and helping patients. I can’t just sit back and watch us return to 1972.“

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