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I’m a Texas-Born OB-GYN—But Abortion Bans Are Forcing Me Out
Jul 26, 2025 | By Bonnie Fuller in Ms.
Featuring Vi Burgess, MSFC alumna.
Ever since Texas became the first state in the country to pass the first abortion ban in 2021, doctors specializing in obstetrics and gynecology have been fleeing the state because they fear getting thrown in jail for up to 99 years if they provide an abortion that the state’s anti abortion attorney general doesn’t deem necessary to save a woman’s life. Texas used to be known as a state with top medical care. Now almost 30 percent of the state’s OB-GYN resident physicians plan to escape it in order to treat patients without a Big Brother state government watching over their shoulders…
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