Sept. 11, 2025

In abortion case battle between NY and Texas, where does your lawmaker stand?

ALBANY – Two Western New York lawmakers are supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal effort to require a New York-based doctor to pay a $113,000 judgment for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman last year.

The Texas attorney general sued the New Paltz doctor, Margaret D. Carpenter, for violating a Texas law that prohibits out-of-state doctors from providing abortion care via telemedicine. A Texas court found Carpenter liable for prescribing the pills to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County, part of the Dallas metropolitan area. When Paxton attempted to have Ulster County courts enforce the judgment, the acting county clerk, Taylor Bruck, rejected him under New York's "shield

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