Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a New York doctor for providing abortion pills to a Texas woman, marking a new escalation in the nationwide battle over abortion rights.
The Texas attorney general has launched a lawsuit against a New York doctor providing abortion pills—proving women aren’t safe anywhere in the country. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton outside the Supreme Court on June 9, 2016. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images) A new battlefront in the war on women is being led by right-wing extremist Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s coming with guns blazing after a New York doctor who prescribed and sent abortion pills to a 20-year-old Texas woman.
In the first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Paxton is suing Dr. Margaret Carpenter for $100,000 in a Collin County, Texas, court for enabling an abortion in Texas … even though Carpenter practices medicine in New York, and what she’s doing—providing abortion pills to women in all 50 states—is legal in New York as a result of the We knew antiabortion forces in Republican-controlled states were never going to be satisfied in only shutting down women’s rights in theirOB-GYNs who violate his own state’s extreme abortion ban. Violators of the Texas ban—including doctors who simply treat a serious miscarriage with a . Her organization has helped numerous women in abortion ban states, including Texas, make their own decisions about whether they can continue a pregnancy. Carpenter and her partners—Dr. Linda Prine and Julie Kay, a former ACLU lawyer who successfully argued the case that overturned Ireland’s abortion ban—founded ACT after the Supreme Court overturnedto move with hyper-speed to pass dangerous abortion bans, many with no exceptions for rape, incest or the actual health of mothers. ACT organized doctors willing to provide abortion pills through telemedicine to women trapped in these states (though ACT and groups like it send pills to women in all 50 states). ACT’s work has literally been a lifesaver for wome
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