Disbarred Lawyer Files Suit Against Texas Doc Who Violated Abortion Ban

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Oscar Stilley, a 58-year-old Arkansas man, got up early on Monday morning and decided to sue Dr. Alan Braid, the San Antonio doctor who's openly defied Texas' state ban on most abortions.

"I was cranky," Stilley joked. "So I filed a lawsuit."

Disbarred Lawyer Files Suit Against Texas Doc Who Violated Abortion Ban
“A libertarian sorta fella" tells the Beast that he’s suing an abortion provider to test the new law—and “if there's money to be had, it's going to go in Oscar's pocket.”
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6:03 PM · Sep 20, 2021

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Oscar Stilley, a 58-year-old Arkansas man, got up early on Monday morning and decided to sue Dr. Alan Braid, the San Antonio doctor who's openly defied Texas' state ban on most abortions.

"I was cranky," Stilley joked. "So I filed a lawsuit."

It is possibly the first lawsuit in the country to be tied to the new statute, SB 8, which prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detectable—about six weeks into a pregnancy. The law is enforceable by private citizens, who can take medical providers or anyone else who "abets" an abortion in violation of the ban to court to try and collect a bounty of up to $10,000.

"That's a fine payday," said Stilley, but the cash is only part of why he filed the complaint against Braid.

Stilley said he's been watching the saga unfold from his home in Arkansas. "I know what the proponents of this law are doing," he explained. "They're trying to inject uncertainty so that the doctors are going to say, 'Oh, my goodness, this could bankrupt me.'"

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[CrispyQ]

1. "I was cranky," Stilley joked. "So I filed a lawsuit."

What a fucking dick.

And so it begins.

[lame54]

3. Does cranky mean greedy?

[House of Roberts]

2. It will be most interesting

how the SCOTUS decides who has standing in this issue.

I don't see how anyone not sharing direct DNA with the fetus has ANY standing, and I also don't see how the 'fetal heartbeat' can be an actual heartbeat when there is no heart formed as of six weeks.