What: The Guardian profiles Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions. Goodrick decided to treat a patient who needed an abortion at 17 weeks, after her water broke prematurely. A hospital refused to treat the woman because she wasn’t sick enough yet, though infection was bound to happen soon.
Key line: “There’s legal risk to helping this patient – Goodrick’s not sure she would do it if the state didn’t have a Democratic governor and attorney general – but she’ll remark later how frustrating she finds it that more doctors aren’t willing to use their position to more aggressively challenge abortion restrictions. She is in a bind countless doctors have faced in the last two years, as stories of women denied emergency abortions in their home states have piled up. Zipkin agrees they need to act. From her perch on a black office chair, she responds, defiant: ‘I’m not afraid. Let’s do it.’”
Source: The Guardian // https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/arizona-abortion-clinic