Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against an abortion activist doctor in New York for “unlawfully” mailing prescription pills to the Lone Star State that “ended the life of an unborn child” and resulted in “serious complications” for the 20-year-old mother, according to the suit — marking the first cross-state abortion legal battle of its kind, a report says.
Dr. Margaret Carpenter, founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, is accused of mailing the “abortion-inducing drugs,” which are illegal to provide in Texas but not New York thanks to abortion “shield” laws , to a Collin County resident between the months of May and July. Paxton’s suit, which was filed on Thursday, claims to outline why and describes what allegedly happened as a result.
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“About mid-May 2024, a 20-year-old female resident of Collin County, Texas became pregnant,” Paxton’s complaint says. “The mother of the unborn child did not communicate her pregnancy to the biological father of the unborn child. The mother did not have any life threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from the pregnancy that placed her at risk of death or any serious risk of substantial impairment. The mother proceeded to utilize telemedicine or telehealth services and received, through Carpenter, two abortion-inducing drugs or prescriptions. The first was a box for the drug mifepristone, 200 mg, followed by the ‘#1’ and the directions to take 1 tablet by mouth and to ‘take this medication first.’ The second was a pill bottle of misoprostol 200 mcg with directions to take 4 tablets (i.e., 800 mcg.) after the mifepristone.”