“'Having to deny patients the healthcare you are trained – and able – to give them is something you never get over. It’s not only medically unethical, it’s morally wrong,' said Rubino. 'It was traumatizing, and it still haunts me.'”
SB 8, she said, was the tipping point for abortion providers in Texas like her who have been forced to navigate onerous laws over the years that compromise the care they give, including a mandatory sonogram and 24-hour waiting period that incorporates relaying erroneous medical information, bans on insurance coverage for care, restrictions on minors’ access to abortion, and more.
In May, under the advice of attorneys and those closest to her, Rubino and her family left Texas with no plans to return. She worked at a clinic in Bristol, Virginia, where she largely served patients in banned southern states, before moving to DC in late August to help expand abortion services at a reproductive health clinic there.
Rubino still struggles with the decision to flee Texas, while also acknowledging the legal inability to continue her calling.
'There is a sense of guilt, of letting down the community I serve. Sometimes I feel like I gave up on these people,' she said."
~ Mary Tuma
"Abortion providers on two years of Texas ban: ‘We’re living in a devastating reality'"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/texas-abortion-ban-senate-bill-8
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