Kumar, who moved from London to a small town in east Texas when he was 10 years old, felt called to abortion care in medical school, when he learned how few young doctors were being trained to provide abortions. “Growing up in Texas as a gay brown man — my family and I were documented for about 11 years — it really resonated with me how certain policies and systems worked to oppress people and take away their rights,” Kumar says.
And that’s not surprising to me. The vast majority of folks that I see will already have cardiac motion [in the fetus] by the time I see them. I’m worried — even if you can get an appointment on the same day, and you’ve made your decision, and all the things are perfect, and you don’t have to deal with TRAP laws, it’s very, very difficult to get [a timely appointment] in the first place.
I’m not aware of any threats directly to either me or to the health center where I provide care. But I’m not monitoring this myself or anything. We do know there are folks out there that are organized — members of organizations that oppose what we do, lobby for anti-abortion legislation — so we can speculate who might bring lawsuits like this forward. We certainly have a number of repeat protesters, folks that were there pretty much every day at our health centers.
This law is being referred to as a six-week ban, but my understanding is the only enforcement is through these civil lawsuits. If a doctor or health care center had the financial means to defend themselves from these lawsuits, could they continue offering legal health care? Yeah, absolutely. That was definitely a consideration. It’s something that I still think about. I’m a physician. I wanted to practice medicine, take care of my patients, and do my job, providing abortion care in Texas. Instead, what’s happening is I’m having to get involved with lawsuits to give voice to science, to give voice to what I see and hear from my patients.
It’s very difficult to hear. Most of the people who spoke in support of Senate Bill 8 don’t do the work that I do. They don’t talk to people I’m seeing. They don’t know their stories. They don’t know their names. They come from a different place. I think there’s a lot of privilege there. I think there are a lot of assumptions that they have. And I think there’s a lot of misinformation.
Senate Bill 8 has certainly given me pause. This has been a very difficult law to think about in terms of what it will mean for access to abortion. On a personal level, the idea of the unknown when it comes to numerous lawsuits that are obviously frivolous, but still something that I would have to deal with. It gives me a lot of pause. And I wish it were easier for me. I’d certainly enjoy an easier path.
Yet Texas still has the death penalty. So….they are not really pro-life, just pro-fetus. I am sure that TX will provide services for these unwanted fetuses. 🙄
I don't even have words for how appalling this is.
A Texas Stasi system developing in GOP Texas.
How about you guys do music 🎵🎵🎵 not abortion clinic news 🤣🤣 some of the government should have been aborted. CLOWNS 🤣🤣
You know you never think you'd head a topic as sensitive as this & hear the words 'his biggest fears'... -ONE.💯
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