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highplainsdem

(53,015 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:55 PM Dec 13

Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman

Source: Texas Tribune

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law.

This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.

Texas has vowed to pursue these cases regardless of those laws, and legal experts are divided on where the courts may land on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other thorny legal questions last meaningfully addressed before the Civil War.

“Regardless of what the courts in Texas do, the real question is whether the courts in New York recognize it," said Greer Donley, University of Pittsburgh professor who studies these kinds of laws.

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Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/texas-paxton-abortion-pill-mail-lawsuit/

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Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 13 OP

Paxton/Abbot really think women in/from Texas are their personal property and breeding stock Attilatheblond Dec 13 #1

OB/GYNs of both genders already are... And good luck getting residents to come to train at their med hlthe2b Dec 13 #4

Texas is a serious threat to the rest of us ... and why is Paxton still free? NotHardly Dec 13 #5

His wife is in the Tx Senate and didn't vote to Ilsa Dec 13 #8

White, male, monied, connected Attilatheblond Dec 14 #13

GO kick sand, Paxton. I'll take NY, CA, CO, NM, OR, WA and all the other DEM AG's and their pro-choice hlthe2b Dec 13 #2

That's infuriating, they really can't mind their own damn business. Dave Bowman Dec 13 #3

By this reasoning SCantiGOP Dec 13 #6

That dog just won't hunt, Ken. paleotn Dec 13 #7

It stops being Kabuki theater when women start dying -- and they are Hekate Dec 13 #9

In TX, yes. In NY, he has no power. Comstock or not, NY won't cooperate. paleotn Dec 14 #12

Paxton... LudwigPastorius Dec 13 #10

What about clamping down on the online sites providing boner pills? A pregnancy cannot Ziggysmom Dec 14 #11

It is staggering... GiqueCee Dec 14 #14

I hope that the NY court will throw it out. How can he sue outside his state? question everything Dec 14 #15

Attilatheblond

(4,807 posts)

1. Paxton/Abbot really think women in/from Texas are their personal property and breeding stock

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:58 PM

Dec 13

Time for the women folk to pack up and leave that place.

hlthe2b

(107,144 posts)

4. OB/GYNs of both genders already are... And good luck getting residents to come to train at their med

Reply to Attilatheblond (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 04:03 PM

Dec 13

schools or Corporate America to want to bring their families to live there. Screw Texas (sorry, my dear Texas DUers but I don't know how to achieve change unless the perpetrators face the music--just as my beloved COLORADO had to do after that long ago ill-fated anti-gay bill passed).

NotHardly

(1,446 posts)

5. Texas is a serious threat to the rest of us ... and why is Paxton still free?

Reply to Attilatheblond (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 04:43 PM

Dec 13

Ilsa

(62,332 posts)

8. His wife is in the Tx Senate and didn't vote to

Reply to NotHardly (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:54 PM

Dec 13

impeach him, for starters. And he keeps appealing court decisions to higher more conservative courts who take his side.

Attilatheblond

(4,807 posts)

13. White, male, monied, connected

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:13 AM

Dec 14

I have not been able to say that last line of the Pledge of Alliance since Ford pardoned Nixon. Things have only gotten worse sense that miscarriage of justice.

hlthe2b

(107,144 posts)

2. GO kick sand, Paxton. I'll take NY, CA, CO, NM, OR, WA and all the other DEM AG's and their pro-choice

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 04:02 PM

Dec 13

policies against your hateful power grabs every time--you don't get to cherry-pick the 5th circuit for this. As bad as SCOTUS is, I would not bet the farm they will back you either.

Dave Bowman

(4,009 posts)

3. That's infuriating, they really can't mind their own damn business.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 04:02 PM

Dec 13

SCantiGOP

(14,317 posts)

6. By this reasoning

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:36 PM

Dec 13

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Someone could buy a legal joint and smoke it in Colorado, and Texas could sue the weed store for drug distribution under Texas law.
What a crock of shit.

paleotn

(19,697 posts)

7. That dog just won't hunt, Ken.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:26 PM

Dec 13

More kabuki theater.

Hekate

(95,569 posts)

9. It stops being Kabuki theater when women start dying -- and they are

Reply to paleotn (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:09 PM

Dec 13

Texas is trying to resurrect the vile stinking corpse of the Comstock Act asap. It’s one of the laws that were left in place as zombies all over the country when Roe vs Wade was passed.

paleotn

(19,697 posts)

12. In TX, yes. In NY, he has no power. Comstock or not, NY won't cooperate.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 08:52 AM

Dec 14

No different than the Fugitive Slave Act. We will not cooperate. And without state cooperation, his suits are mute. He knows all that and he knows his stance is hugely unpopular throughout the country. He's hand waving. Disturbing, yes, but still just handwaving.

On edit: My better half informed me that NY has a shield law protecting NY residents when it comes to situations like this involving reproductive healthcare. Paxton filed in TX state court. It's going exactly nowhere. Handwaving.

LudwigPastorius

(11,247 posts)

10. Paxton...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:30 PM

Dec 13

Get bent, you crooked-faced motherfucker!

Ziggysmom

(3,669 posts)

11. What about clamping down on the online sites providing boner pills? A pregnancy cannot

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 12:25 AM

Dec 14

happen without with the custard chucking danger noodle getting a woodie!

GiqueCee

(1,584 posts)

14. It is staggering...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:18 AM

Dec 14

... that a psychotic monster like Paxton is still in a position power and influence. He, Abbott, and Patrick are a triumvirate of pure, malignant evil.
When unbridled malice poisons an entire state, as it most definitely has in Texas, what recourse do people have to save themselves from the inevitable destruction of society in that state?

question everything

(49,257 posts)

15. I hope that the NY court will throw it out. How can he sue outside his state?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 05:20 PM

Dec 14

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