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  In Texas, several exhausted doctors told me they had considered moving elsewhere. But they have yet to do so, in part because they can’t imagine abandoning the women who come in every day, who are themselves deeply upset by the bans, and who are too poor to go elsewhere for abortions. As the Parkland ob-gyn put it to me bluntly, “Our patients don’t have the ability to pack up and leave.” So she and her Clements colleague, and their colleagues , will continue, for now, to push the boundaries of the law on the basis of evidence that they collected on their own initiative.