BY JOHN ROEMER
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Just days after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was published, a host of major firms announced they’d pay travel costs for staff seeking abortions who live in states where abortion is restricted or banned. According to Reuters, Bloomberg and Law.com, these firms include Ropes & Gray, Morrison & Foerster, Mayer Brown, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Proskauer Rose, Sidley Austin, Cozen O’Connor, Dorsey & Whitney, McDermott Will & Emery, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Vinson & Elkins and others.
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The positive reviews got immediate backlash from conservative lawmakers in Texas who threatened to disbar any lawyer who aids in the violation of the state’s anti-abortion statutes. “It has come to our attention that Sidley Austin has decided to reimburse the travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children,” began the letter from the Texas Freedom Caucus to Sidley chair Yvette Ostolaza.
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