He filed the lawsuit against the physician, Dr. Alan Braid, in Bexar County. “I am a supporter of the Constitution, and I am opposed to the law,” Stilley said. The lawsuits open up a new front in the legal war around the six-week abortion ban, which went into effect on September 1. Under the Texas law, clinics that are found, in private state court enforcement actions, to be in violation of the ban are on the hook for at least $10,000 in damages. Photo credit: A San Antonio doctor who wrote a Washington Post op-ed claiming that he had violated Texas’ six-week abortion ban now faces at least two lawsuits brought against him under the ban, and pictured, protesters on May 29, in Austin, Texas.