The suit was filed by a private citizen in Arkansas, who says the law should be subject to judicial review
The situation is improbable, but, because of the language of the law, it is not an entirely unsurprising outcome. Since S.B. 8 is unlike other six-week abortion bans, it has necessitated different strategies for for stopping it: like an abortion provider willing to act in defiance of the law and take the fall.
“I have daughters, granddaughters and nieces,” Braid wrote on Saturday. “I believe abortion is an essential part of health care. I have spent the past 50 years treating and helping patients. I can’t just sit back and watch us return to 1972.”
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