<span itemprop="author">Joanna Bisgrove, MD

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Lawmakers don’t care for our patients. Doctors do.

On September 1st, 2021, Texas Senate Bill 8 went into effect.  While the law’s stated goal is to severely limit a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in Texas, it also designates private citizens to sue not just abortion providers, but an…

Doctors will die. My friends will die.

I looked at the door.  Standing there, in a paper gown, my hair tucked back into a ponytail, mask, and shield across my face, gloves on, boot covers over my shoes and legs.  Behind that door was a woman I had known for years, whose youngest I had deliv…