Dr. Alan Braid performed the abortion for a patient in early September 2021, just five days after S.B.8 went into effect, which bans abortion after six weeks' gestation.Additionally, the court said it would make a ruling in the next week about whether the part of the law that allows citizens to sue violates the state's constitution.8's bounty-hunting scheme because the court rejected the notion that Texas can allow a person with no connection to an abortion to sue," Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is co-representing Braid, said in a statement.8 overall, and in the wake of the Dobbs decision, Texas is enforcing multiple abortion bans.In a press call on Thursday, the Center's senior counsel, Mark Hearron, told reporters that Braid has been forced to close his practices in Texas and Oklahoma and is providing care in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in Illinois."