doctor speaks out publicly even writing a washington post op-ed admitting to violating the texas abortion ban. he s now facing two lawsuits, both claiming to be filed by people who oppose the controversial texas abortion law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. what is going on here? cnn s jessica schneider joins me now with more detail on this. jessica, what are you learning about this? reporter: kate, this texas doctor over the weekend wrote this op-ed confessing that he had performed an abortion for a woman who he knew was beyond the state s new limit, knowing that a fetal heartbeat had been detected and the doctor did this precisely because he wanted to get sued since that s the only way here that the new texas law can actually be tested and potentially overturned in the