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Texas has sued a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman, launching the first known legal challenge of its kind, which will test what happens when two ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion drugs to a resident in Texas, where nearly all abortions are banned.
In the first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Paxton is testing the bounds of conflicting state abortion laws by pursuing litigation against a doctor in New York – where shield laws protect providers from ...
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.
(Reuters) -New York state's top prosecutor on Monday sued Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion group, and 11 crisis pregnancy centers, accusing them of misleading and potentially endangering ...
There was an arson attack at an abortion clinic in New York in 1979 that caused around US$250,000 in damage. [47] An incident of anti-abortion violence occurred at an abortion clinic in New York City on December 10, 1985. [47] Another occurred at an abortion clinic in Syracuse, New York, on May 23, 1990. [47]
Prior to the passage of the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), New York law banned abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy, except when necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In addition, New York law recognized licensed physicians as the only medical providers able to perform abortions. [ 1 ]
Governor Kim Reynolds included abortion as a nonessential medical procedure and temporarily banned it in response to the pandemic. Abortion providers filed a petition requesting an emergency injunction against the order, arguing that it violated women's rights under the state Constitution and "severely jeopardizes their health, safety and welfare."