{"id":318566,"date":"2021-09-20T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?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-2","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-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Abortion Doctor: &#8220;When We Ban abortion, It Doesn&#8217;t Stop the Need for People to Access Abortion&#8221;"},"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\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/9\/20\/texas_abortion_law_dr_bhavik_kumar\">Democracy Now!<\/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":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318566"}],"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=318566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318877,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318566\/revisions\/318877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}