Step by step, Texas has driven away doctors like Bhavik Kumar. After the state legislature in 2021 enacted a ban on abortions beyond roughly the sixth week of pregnancy, the family medicine physician, who worked full time for Planned Parenthood, began providing abortions in Louisiana, where the procedure was still legal at the time. After the Dobbs decision wiped out abortion access across much of the South less than a year later, he started seeing patients in Kansas and Ohio a few days each month.Now his new job has put him in what he describes as a bewildering position. He works mostly from the Houston area, in a state where he could go to prison for life if he performed the procedure, while helping to…
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