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Civil lawsuits brought against people who help people get abortions or provide abortions to people while the law was under injunction, that uncertainty has to make things that much harder for you and your colleagues and also for your patients. >> yeah. absolutely. it really feels like a roller coaster. and, of course, this is happening with s.b. 8. it is also happening before. this is not the first lawsuit that can determine if how we can provide care. especially when it comes to abortion care in texas. we went through something like this last spring when the governor issued an executive order...

Texas, has a 4-year-old at home, and somehow she's scared about coming up here, because of the laws that are in place in texas. take a listen. >> there's anger. there's fear. and we're the ones that receive, you know, the brunt of it, until we're able to sit down one on one and speak with them and say, we're going to help you, we just need to make a plan, let's make a plan. >> i'm in louisiana. i have a texas license plate. i don't know if somebody is going to decide they're going to follow me to the hotel. you know, it can be -- >> scary? >> -- scary. >> reporter: on the ground at the end of ...

Ultimately resolved. has that been -- i mean, obviously you want the ban to not be in effect even with all of the other difficulties that were there. but having this uncertainty around whether the law is in effect about whether or not there might be retro active civil lawsuits brought against people who help people get abortions or provide abortions to people while the law was under injunction, that uncertainty has to make things that much harder for you and your colleagues and also for your patients. >> yeah. absolutely. it really feels like a roller coaster. and, of course, this is happening...

Sue even during the injunction period, when an injunction is lifted, if the court later on stays that injunction, which is exactly what happened here. and in the long term, depending on what the court decides, we may live with sb 8 for a long time in our state if the fifth circuit and the supreme court continue to refuse to enjoin the law while its constitutionality is being tested. >> lawmakers wrote this law to be especially difficult for the courts to review and to ultimately remove, as pete was just talking about. with clinics across the state ending abortion services indefinitely, has thi...

>> well, we're now i think government has to respond to what texas asked for. texas asked the federal court of appeals for the fifth circuit to do two things. they said first, we want you to say that the judge was wrong and we want you to lift the stay he imposed so we can continue to enforce sb-8. in the meantime, we want an administrative stay. lift the judge's stay for now. lift the judge's hold on the law without saying whether you think we're right or wrong on the law in order to allow us to continue to enforce the law while we -- the appeal plays out. that's what the court granted friday...