Texas files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider

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Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a civil action against a New York Doctor who prescribed and had mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas who took them. New York has a shield law in place.
This will have interesting permutations not only for abortion but for other laws. If successful, could California sue gun companies for making firearms that are not permitted in Cali?

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law.

This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.

Texas has vowed to pursue these cases regardless of those laws, and legal experts are divided on where the courts may land on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other thorny legal questions last meaningfully addressed before the Civil War.

In this case, Paxton accuses Dr. Margaret Carpenter of mailing pills from New York to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County. The woman allegedly took the medication when she was nine weeks pregnant. When she began experiencing severe bleeding, the lawsuit says, she asked the man who impregnated her to take her to the hospital. He had not been aware she was pregnant or seeking an abortion, according to the filing.


The lawsuit does not say whether the woman successfully terminated her pregnancy or experienced any long-term medical complications. Mifepristone and misoprostol, the medications Carpenter is accused of sending, are more than 95% effective if taken before 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Paxton is asking a Collin County court to block Carpenter from violating Texas law, and order her to pay $100,000 for every violation of the state’s near-total abortion ban. Texas’ near-total abortion ban comes with up to life in prison, fines of at least $100,000 and the loss of a provider’s Texas medical license.

Carpenter is not licensed to practice in Texas, according to the complaint. She is the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, a national group that helps doctors in states with shield laws provide telemedicine consultations and abortion pills to patients in states that have banned abortions.
 
Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a civil action against a New York Doctor who prescribed and had mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas who took them. New York has a shield law in place.
This will have interesting permutations not only for abortion but for other laws. If successful, could California sue gun companies for making firearms that are not permitted in Cali?


Gun manufacturers won't ship prohibited guns to consumers in anti-civil rights states like California.

The abortionists have no such integrity. They'll kill a kid anywhere, any time, regardless of the laws. Just the way you want it.
 
Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a civil action against a New York Doctor who prescribed and had mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas who took them. New York has a shield law in place.
This will have interesting permutations not only for abortion but for other laws. If successful, could California sue gun companies for making firearms that are not permitted in Cali?

Child murderers should be prosecuted.
 
It might be an attempt to get the Comstock Act back in front of SCOTUS, else I don't see how this survives the NY shield law.
 
Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a civil action against a New York Doctor who prescribed and had mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas who took them. New York has a shield law in place.
This will have interesting permutations not only for abortion but for other laws. If successful, could California sue gun companies for making firearms that are not permitted in Cali?

Ken Paxton needs a new hobby.
 
i. theHawk lxxviii. warmongering on Iraq: We should had carpet bombed everything and left the nation building nonsense to the UN or to the third world Muslims themselves. thhwk 160606 Saitoo00078

ii. theHawk iv : Child murderers should be prosecuted. thhwk 241216. Stffla00004

iii. NotfooledbyW xiii to 4 : That which happens inside a woman’s body is not murder, Mass killing of children who have long left their mother‘s body in a process called carpet bombing is reprehensible madd murder when it is done inside a country that has no capabilty to inflict harm on the superpower in which Saint Thehawk lives.

Yet the white Republican Christian has no reservations against having the US military carpet bomb innocent parents, grandparents and their children when that population is Muslim.

nfbw 241216 Vtffla00013
 
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Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a civil action against a New York Doctor who prescribed and had mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas who took them. New York has a shield law in place.
This will have interesting permutations not only for abortion but for other laws. If successful, could California sue gun companies for making firearms that are not permitted in Cali?

Well this will be interesting to follow.
 
Thousands of women die every day and you allow it to happen.

What a bullshit post that is? What’s your point? It’s OK to let them die because other women are dying to, and nobody did anything about that?

What level of deaths do you think are acceptable for pregnant American women?

When we see wome being deliberately, murdered by the government, you think that women should just let that pass? I hope these families sue the governments of the states which killed their loved ones, on purpose.

80% of maternal deaths in the USA, are preventable. Pregnant women are dying at levels more than 4x higher than any other first world nation. But Republicans are good with that.

Gun violence is the leading cause of death among American children. Republicans keep telling us the children’s lives are precious and yet thousands of children die every year from gun violence, and you don’t do anything about it.

Republican men only care about the deaths of children when those deaths don’t interfere with their right to carry a gun.

Maybe the sale of Viagra should be banned. When your dick goes limp, it’s God’s will and you should just accept that God doesn’t thinks you’re too old to have sex or children anymore. Let nature decide when your time is done.
 
What a bullshit post that is? What’s your point? It’s OK to let them die because other women are dying to, and nobody did anything about that?

What level of deaths do you think are acceptable for pregnant American women?

When we see wome being deliberately, murdered by the government, you think that women should just let that pass? I hope these families sue the governments of the states which killed their loved ones, on purpose.

80% of maternal deaths in the USA, are preventable. Pregnant women are dying at levels more than 4x higher than any other first world nation. But Republicans are good with that.

Gun violence is the leading cause of death among American children. Republicans keep telling us the children’s lives are precious and yet thousands of children die every year from gun violence, and you don’t do anything about it.

Republican men only care about the deaths of children when those deaths don’t interfere with their right to carry a gun.

Maybe the sale of Viagra should be banned. When your dick goes limp, it’s God’s will and you should just accept that God doesn’t thinks you’re too old to have sex anymore. Let nature decide when your time is done.

Joe Biden just told the world that illegally buying and illegally possessing a gun isn't a crime worth prosecuting. You cheered for that. Don't lie and say you have a problem with guns now. You LOVE guns, especially illegal ones, just like Hunter Biden. :badgrin:
 

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