A Texas doctor who performed an abortion in violation of a new state law and faces the prospect of a private-action lawsuit for damages of up to $10,000 published an op-ed in The Washington Post on Sept. 19.
Dr. Alan Braid wrote that he has performed abortions in Texas since 1973, the year when the Supreme Court outlawed most state limits on abortion until 22 weeks of pregnancy. The passage of the new Texas law shut down 80 percent of the abortion business at his two clinics, Braid wrote, adding that the situation for him “is 1972 all over again.”
