Throughline by Jill Filipovic

Throughline by Jill Filipovic

When Justice Requires Breaking Unjust Laws

The good doctors who refuse to abide by bad rules

Jill Filipovic
Sep 20, 2021
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1I was leveled by this piece from Alan Braid, a physician who provides abortion care in San Antonio, Texas, and who just broke Texas’s near-total abortion ban by helping a woman who needed it have an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Under Texas law, anyone in the US can sue Braid; if they win, they are entitled to their legal fees and $10,000, a bo…

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