Amna Nawaz:
I'm so sorry for everything you have been through.
Ms. Duane, I will turn to you now, because the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, just came out with a statement that this judge's ruling will not — quote — "insulate hospitals, doctors, or anyone from civil or criminal liability."
How are you prepared to respond?
Molly Duane, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Reproductive Rights: Well, I would hope that everyone is shocked by that response from Ken Paxton.
He is misrepresenting what the order from the district court said this morning. And he is fearmongering in the extreme, which has been his M.O. for years in Texas. The cruelty here is the point. And making it terrifying for Ms. Cox, for her husband for her doctor to be able to proceed in the way that is safest and best for her health care and her family is exactly what Ken Paxton is trying to do.
And I, as an attorney, am appalled at what has happened today.
I am so thankful that Ms. Cox is so brave and so optimistic, because it is a hard time to be a lawyer when you feel like you can do your absolute best for your client, you can get the result that it's just and it's right, and yet still face — what we are talking about here is life in prison, loss of medical license and hundreds of thousands of dollars in — hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, both for the physician and for Ms. Cox's husband, who just wants to help his wife get the health care that she needs so that they can continue to build the family that they want.
I am shocked, but I am not surprised.
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