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Though proponents insist that the laws protect both the life of the fetus and the person carrying it, in practice, doctors have hesitated to provide care under threat of prosecution, prison time and professional ruin.

Riggs hasn’t hesitated to call out her colleagues’ conflicts of interest.

I hesitated to inform him that I don’t know anyone that would want to “replace” him and the economy isn’t . . . oh never mind.

Politico’s E&E News recently reported the ex-president “was flagrantly partisan at times in response to disasters and on at least three occasions hesitated to give disaster aid to areas he considered politically hostile.”

“I kind of hesitated because I don’t know if I needed help. I am doing OK, and there are people who lost just about everything. I thought, ‘I don’t really deserve help.’