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Should Abortion Providers Break the Law?

theintercept.com · 3,482 words · saved by 1 readers

As abortion bans compel them to endanger patients, some are considering civil disobedience.

_Voices _Voices Support Us An abortion provider inside a clinic on Jan. 31, 2022, in Boulder, Colo. Photo: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The horrific stories are pouring in. A Texas woman’s water breaks at 18 weeks, leaving the fetus’s chance of survival “as close to zero as you’ll ever get in medicine,” according to one expert. Yet she must wait until she is hemorrhaging profusely and burning with fever — that is, not dead but almost — before the doctors agree that it’s legal to perform an abortion. A Tennessee resident learns that her baby’s “brain matter [is] leaking into

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