Texas has sued a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas. A lawsuit, filed byTexasattorney general Ken Paxton on Thursday, alleges Dr Margaret Carpenter unlawfully prescribed abortion-inducing drugs to the 20-year-old, in violation of the state's laws....
, the supreme court is already planning to rule on a mississippi law banning abortion at 15 weeks, and in the event it overturns roe v. wade ,“texas is among the states with a ‘trigger law’ already on the books, which would immediately outlaw abortion across the state as soon as ...
AUSTIN, Texas- A federal judge Friday threw out new Texas abortion restrictions that would have effectively closed more than a dozen clinics in the state. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sided with clinics that sued over one of the most disputed measures of a sweeping anti-abortion bill signed...
Texas has sued aNew Yorkdoctor 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 afterRoe v. Wadewas overturned. TexasAttorney General...
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.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the ...
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. Texas Attorney General Ken ...
Women who sued state on abortion law testify A group of women who sued the state of Texas over SB 8, the controversial law that bans abortions once a fetus' heartbeat is detected, testified in an Austin courtroom Wednesday. In July, several Texas women gave emotional testimony about carrying...
Texas licensing officials may be sued, but not state court judges, court clerks or state Attorney General Ken Paxton, the court ruled. That seems to leave people free, under the unusual structure of the Texas law, to sue abortion clinics and anyone else who “aids or abets” an abortion ...
The genesis of shield laws dates from shortly before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, after Missouri considered (but ultimately didn’t pass) a bill that would project its abortion ban outsidestate lines. That inspired a pre-emptive strike from lawyers supportive of abortion rights, ...
The Supreme Court left in place a Texas abortion law that bars the procedure after around six weeks of pregnancy, but the justices said abortion providers had the right to challenge the law in federal court. The court’s action means that the case will return to a district court for furth...