{"id":318546,"date":"2021-09-20T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?guid=4c11150881f87a5a838cf8d6fa9d4671"},"modified":"2021-09-20T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T12:42:38","slug":"texas-abortion-doctor-when-we-ban-abortion-it-doesnt-stop-the-need-for-people-to-access-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/20\/texas-abortion-doctor-when-we-ban-abortion-it-doesnt-stop-the-need-for-people-to-access-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Abortion Doctor: \u201cWhen We Ban abortion, It Doesn\u2019t Stop the Need for People to Access Abortion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/9\/20\/texas_abortion_law_dr_bhavik_kumar\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/56\/59556\/w320\/SEG2-Texas-Abortion-2.jpg\" alt=\"Seg2 texas abortion 2\" \/><\/a><p>We look at the attack on reproductive rights in the United States, as the Department of Justice sues Texas over a new law that bans abortions after six weeks into a pregnancy. The law makes no exception for rape or incest and allows anyone in Texas to sue patients, medical workers or even a patient&#8217;s family or friends who &#8220;aid and abet&#8221; an abortion. &#8220;What we see time and time again is when we ban abortion, it doesn&#8217;t stop the need for people to access abortion,&#8221; says Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a staff physician at Planned Parenthood Center for Choice in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/9\/20\/texas_abortion_law_dr_bhavik_kumar\" >Democracy Now!<\/a> and was authored by Democracy Now!.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/09\/20\/texas-abortion-doctor-when-we-ban-abortion-it-doesnt-stop-the-need-for-people-to-access-abortion\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the attack on reproductive rights in the United States, as the Department of Justice sues Texas over a new law that bans abortions after six weeks into a pregnancy. The law makes no exception for rape or incest and allows anyone in Texas to sue patients, medical workers or even a patient&#8217;s family or friends who &#8220;aid and abet&#8221; an abortion. &#8220;What we see time and time again is when we ban abortion, it doesn&#8217;t stop the need for people to access abortion,&#8221; says Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a staff physician at Planned Parenthood Center for Choice in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,27150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318547,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318546\/revisions\/318547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}