Dr. Jen Gunter
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And the hospital needed to divest itself from the state to be financially solvent.
That's the best that I understand it.
And they introduced a bill to do this.
And somebody put in a rider that it could only go through if they banned abortions at KU.
Yeah.
And so initially it was like, oh, this is terrible.
We can never do this.
Academic freedom, women, everything.
And I'm like, I'm the only person at the hospital doing abortions, right?
And I'm like, hey, this is super important because you know what's going to happen?
We're going to have these super sick women come in and I'm going to be like, sorry, I can't do that.
And I'm here on a green card.
I'm not even a US citizen at this point.
I didn't even know if I had my green card at that point.
Maybe I did.
I can't remember.
But you know not in like the the solid like, you know, I'm not a citizen and Yeah, it passed they just decided sure they just rolled over great.
That's not really they can go elsewhere But of course, I knew they couldn't go elsewhere.
And so what happens I get a call, you know, somebody who's really ill and I'm like well, I
Call the dean.