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On June 24, the morning that the US Supreme Court delivered its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Alan Braid, MD (right), tells patients in the waiting room at Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio, Texas, that he can no longer provide abortion services. The court’s decision ignited legal, medical, and psychological turmoil, with restrictive laws triggered nationwide. In Texas, uncertainty about when the state’s 1925 law banning abortion would take effect led Braid to turn patients away once the ruling came down.
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