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New York Doctor Fined After Sending Abortion Pills To Texas Patient, Report Says
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sought to bar the doctor from treating other Texas patients when he sued her in December, alleging she violated the state’s abortion ban.
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It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sought to bar the doctor from treating other Texas patients when he sued her in December, alleging she violated the state’s abortion ban.
The ruling by a Texas judge against a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas could test "shield laws" in Democratic-controlled states where abortion is legal.
ALBANY, N.Y. — A Texas judge on Thursday fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to “shield laws” enacted in Democratic
A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State’s shield law against the two conservative states’ abortion bans,
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