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Several states with pro-abortion stances also passed shield laws to protect doctors who prescribed medical abortion drugs by mail from out-of-state lawsuits targeting this practice. [257] In December 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills to a Texan woman by mail.
On March 24, 2020, Governor Brad Little signed into law S1385, a trigger law stating that if and when states are again allowed to ban abortion on their own authority, performing an abortion would be a felony in Idaho except for cases of the life of the mother, rape, or incest; [1] [2] [3] exceptions are not made for the health of the pregnant person nor of the fetus. [4]
The lawsuit accuses New York Dr. Maggie Carpenter of violating Texas law by providing the drugs to a Texas patient and seeks up to $250,000. No criminal charges are involved. Texas bars abortion at all stages of pregnancy and has been one of the most aggressive states at pushing back against abortion rights.
Patients, abortion rights advocates and providers have warned that anti-abortion laws threaten doctors with the revocation of their licenses or severe fines or jail time if they perform abortions ...
When the U.S. Supreme Court undid the nationwide right to abortion last year, it did not remove the issue from the courts. Instead, it opened a new frontier of litigation, with states passing ...
His lawsuit, of course, has only arisen because the Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade in 2022. Roe made abortion a federal right – preventing each state from ...
United States v. Texas, 595 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that involved the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, a state law that bans abortion once a "fetal heartbeat" [a] is detected, typically six weeks into pregnancy.
(The Center Square) – Democratic officials in Texas cities attempting to fund abortion-related services with taxpayer money are being sued. Earlier this year, the Austin City Council allocated ...