A New York doctor has been hit with $100,000 in penalties for prescribing a Texas woman abortion-inducing medication in violation of the state’s near total abortion ban.
Dr. Maggie Carpenter also violated another Texas law by seeing patients in the state through telehealth appointments without a license to practice medicine there, a Texas state judge said Thursday in a written order.
The suit marks one of the first challenges to a shield law that Democratic-led states including New York passed to protect physicians after the US Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to an abortion.
Judge Bryant Gantt of ...
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