{"id":799241,"date":"2021-09-21T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=799241"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:44:22","slug":"disbarred-lawyers-sue-texas-doctor-who-says-he-violated-pro-life-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disbarred-lawyers-sue-texas-doctor-who-says-he-violated-pro-life-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Disbarred Lawyers Sue Texas Doctor Who Says He Violated Pro-Life Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisbarred-lawyers-sue-texas-doctor-who-says-he-violated-pro-life-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=799241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1173EFC3-0516-4527-A10B-95098E7C147E_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">A doctor in Texas who admitted in an op-ed that he willingly performed an abortion, violating Texas\u2019 new pro-life law has been sued by two disbarred attorneys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/20\/us\/texas-abortion-lawsuit-alan-braid.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by The New York Times, a \u201cman in Arkansas and another in Illinois on Monday filed what appeared to be the first legal actions under a strict new abortion law in Texas that is enforced by ordinary citizens, regardless of where they live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to his <a href=\"https:\/\/bustingthefeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1_ComplaintVBraid.pdf\"><span class=\"s1\">complaint<\/span><\/a>, the man from Arkansas, Oscar Stilley, is \u201ca disbarred and disgraced former Arkansas lawyer,\u201d who is \u201ccurrently on home confinement\u2026serving the 12 year of a 15 year federal sentence on utterly fraudulent federal charges of \u2018tax evasion\u2019 and \u2018conspiracy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stilley told The Times he is \u201cnot pro-life\u201d and said, \u201cThe thing that I\u2019m trying to vindicate here is the law. We pride ourselves on being a nation of laws. What\u2019s the law?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The other person who filed a lawsuit against the doctor is Felipe N. Gomez, another disbarred lawyer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to local outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2021\/09\/20\/san-antonio-doctor-who-openly-flouted-texas-abortion-ban-sued-by-disbarred-illinois-lawyer\/\"><span class=\"s1\">KSAT<\/span><\/a>, \u201cGomez filed the lawsuit pro se, identifying himself as a \u2018Pro Choice plaintiff\u2019 and an Illinois resident. In the court filing, Gomez asks the judge to order the law is unconstitutional and violates Roe v. Wade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The doctor, Alan Braid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/09\/18\/texas-abortion-provider-alan-braid\/\"><span class=\"s1\">wrote<\/span><\/a> an op-ed in The Washington Post in which he said that he purposefully performed an illegal abortion, one that goes against the state\u2019s new pro-life law, which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy or when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Braid, a San Antonio OB\/GYN,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/09\/18\/texas-abortion-provider-alan-braid\/\"><span class=\"s1\">wrote<\/span><\/a> that it was \u201c1972 all over again\u201d for him after the new Texas law was passed, which led him to perform an abortion on a woman who was \u201cbeyond the state\u2019s new limit.\u201d He argued that he \u201cacted because [he] had a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients, and because she has a fundamental right to receive this care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-doctor-says-he-purposefully-broke-pro-life-law-performed-illegal-abortion\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, Braid was also sure to include anecdotal pieces of information about his patients who have sought abortions, saying the majority of them are mothers, with most women falling between the ages of 18 and 30. He added that several times a month, a woman tells the abortion provider that she has been raped, and more often than not, doesn\u2019t report the crime to the police.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI understand that by providing an abortion beyond the new legal limit, I am taking a personal risk, but it\u2019s something I believe in strongly. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, my clinics are among the plaintiffs in an ongoing federal lawsuit to stop S.B. 8.,\u201d the doctor wrote, adding that he has daughters, granddaughters and nieces and believes abortion is \u201can essential part of health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">John Seago, the legislative director for Texas Right to Life, told The Daily Wire the lawsuits \u201care obviously self-serving.\u201d He said, \u201cthese are not legitimate efforts from the pro-life movement to save lives,\u201d adding that he thinks they will be quickly dismissed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Even though the lawsuits are suing a doctor who performed an abortion, The Daily Wire has learned that pro-life groups aren\u2019t in widespread favor of them. Instead, many see the legal actions as a potential way to undermine the law and find potential loopholes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, told The Daily Wire <\/span>the attorneys who filed the lawsuit against Braid support abortion and are going to try to overturn the law.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She added, however, that other states could try to pass similar \u201cheartbeat\u201d laws with the same approach as Texas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She thinks going after abortionists with a civil penalty \u201cis actually going to be very effective because many of these abortionists are in it for the money, so if they are going to be charged with a $10,000 fee for every abortion they do, it\u2019ll hit them in the pocket book and it\u2019s not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor in Texas who admitted in an op-ed that he willingly performed an abortion, violating Texas\u2019 new pro-life law has been sued by two disbarred attorneys.As reported by The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}