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

[Nevilledog]

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/texas-paxton-abortion-pill-mail-lawsuit/

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.

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[Autumn]

1. Can Democrats not file a lawsuit against this Texas fucker for violating NY shield law?

If the pukes can sue why can't the Dems?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. How does that effect Texas? How can a state have standing in a personal matter?

[Quiet Em]

3. I just read this.

Paxton seems to be using the biological father in his lawsuit. His lawsuit mentions that the biological father didn't know about the pregnancy. Did the biological father turn this young woman in for the reward?

[bluesbassman]

4. That's what I don't get. The whole idea of the law was to carve the State out of it.

I guess that sick fuck Paxton can’t keep out of people’s business.

[allegorical oracle]

5. The SCOTUS+TSF wrought this: "Leave it up to the states." Guess they didn't bargain

on asshat radical AGs who reach beyond their state boundaries to enforce their own state laws. How was Texas injured?

Hope he's found to have no standing anywhere except in Texas.