Texas has filed a lawsuit against a New York physician who used telemedicine to provide abortion drugs to a Texas lady.
Attorney General Ken Paxton of the state filed the complaint in Collin County, Texas, on Thursday, and it was made public on Friday. It seems to be the first challenge to a shield law that Democratic-controlled states have been enacting to safeguard precisely this type of prescription anywhere in the United States.
These kinds of prescriptions, which are made over the phone and online, are a major factor in the rise in abortion rates in the United States, even after state prohibitions began to take effect with the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.
It had been anticipated that lawsuits against the prohibitions would ultimately begin.
The complaint wants up to $250,000 and claims that Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter of New York gave the medications to a patient in Texas in violation of Texas law. There are no criminal charges.
Abortion is illegal in Texas at any point during pregnancy.
According to Paxton, the woman who took the medications developed difficulties and ended up in the hospital.
According to a statement from Paxton, “Texans value the health and lives of mothers and babies, which is why out-of-state physicians are not allowed to unlawfully and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texans.”
Carpenter did not immediately return a phone message.
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