Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in district court this week, which was announced Friday, over an out-of-state telemedicine doctor prescribing abortion medications to a Texas woman whose complications forced her to seek treatment at a hospital, according to the court filing.
via the AP:
Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
One reason AG Paxton might have moved to petition the court on this case–more abortions are happening via pills in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling scrapping Dobbs/Roe:
Such prescriptions, made online and over the phone, are a key reason that the number of abortions has increased across the U.S….
