A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to take legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas patient.
The escalating dispute between Texas and New York over the Empire state’s so-called shield law, which protects healthcare professionals from prosecution in states where abortion is illegal or severely limited, is likely eventually to make its way to the Supreme Court.
The case involves Dr. Margaret Carpenter of upstate New York, who prescribes the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol to patients across the country with telemedicine practices that do abortion consultations.
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Paxton in December launched a civil action against Carpenter, who is not licensed in Texas, accusing her of sending abortion pills to
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