Some Faint and Likely Temporary Relief on Abortion Rights
Any physician who would hesitate to provide abortion care under such extreme circumstances, Bland wrote in the decision, would be “simply wrong.” It seems that doctors who fear prosecution for performing abortions—they face the possibility of six-figure fines, imprisonment, and the loss of their licenses and livelihoods if they guess wrong about what the law allows—merely need to go back and read Texas’s statute more closely.