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    FRINGE FACTOR

    Oct 01, 2018 3 minutes
    BY SOPHIE NOVACK

    TITLE/ORGANIZATION

    Obstetrician-gynecologist

    THE CAUSE

    Lobbying for anti-abortion legislation

    NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT

    Helping to draft Texas’ mandatory 24-hour abortion waiting period

    ALLIES

    Texas Alliance for Life, Ken Paxton

    MONEY QUOTE

    "Being pro-life you feel like you’re countercultural. You’re going upstream trying to convince people that there really is value in human life."

    THIS SUMMER, DURING A federal trial over Texas’ fetal burial law, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights set out to demonstrate the anti-abortion

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