Politics
Texas Doctor Tries to Move Fight Over Abortion Ban to Chicago
Laurel Brubaker Calkins-
U.S. judge asked to take over three suits demanding bounties
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‘More favorable’ court could aid challenge to law, expert says
The Texas doctor who publicly defied the state’s restrictive abortion ban is going on the offense -- again.
Dr. Alan Braid of San Antonio asked a federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday to take control of lawsuits filed against him in Texas by individuals in three states seeking to collect $10,000 bounties under the law for each illegal abortion. Braid, who says the law is unconstitutional, disclosed in a Washington Post opinion article that he’d performed a banned procedure on Sept. 6.
