Texas is suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion inducing medication to a Dallas-area woman, one of the first challenges to a shield law that Democratic-led states passed to protect physicians after the US Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to an abortion.
The lawsuit announced Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says Dr. Maggie Carpenter is breaking another law by seeing Texans through telehealth appointments without a license to practice medicine in the state.
Carpenter, co-medical director and founder of Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, didn’t respond to a request for comment Friday.
Filed Thursday in Collin County, ...
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