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(148,663 posts) Tue Dec 17, 2024, 07:55 PM Dec 17

Nadler slams Texas attorney general for 'draconian crusade' in NY abortion pill lawsuit

Source: The Hill

12/17/24 3:35 PM ET

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for filing a lawsuit against a New York doctor for providing abortion care to a Texas patient via telemedicine.

“Last week, TX Attorney General Paxton attempted to expand his draconian crusade to control women’s bodies by suing a New York OBGYN for providing abortion care to a Texas patient via telemedicine,” Nadler wrote in a Tuesday statement on social platform X. “This lawsuit is a outrageous attempt to intimidate New York’s abortion providers out of providing lifesaving care to women who need it across the country,” he added.

Paxton filed the lawsuit last week, and Texas bans surgical and medical abortions. However, Nadler warned the Texas attorney general that his efforts wouldn’t stick in New York, which is the first legal test to see what happens when state abortion laws conflict with one another.

“AG Paxton doesn’t know New Yorkers — we won’t be intimidated by bullies,” Nadler wrote. “New York has passed several interstate shield laws protecting our providers who are lawfully practicing abortion care, including through telemedicine.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5044956-nadler-texas-abortion-pill-lawsuit/

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Nadler slams Texas attorney general for 'draconian crusade' in NY abortion pill lawsuit (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 17 OP

How to put this gently... lonely bird Dec 17 #1

Kick ck4829 Jan 20 #2

New York doctors get legal protection to prescribe abortion pills across state lines LetMyPeopleVote Feb 1 #3

lonely bird

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1. How to put this gently...

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Tue Dec 17, 2024, 09:39 PM

Dec 17

Fuck Ken Paxton.

ck4829

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2. Kick

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LetMyPeopleVote

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3. New York doctors get legal protection to prescribe abortion pills across state lines

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Sat Feb 1, 2025, 03:41 PM

Feb 1

The indictment of a New York doctor is an attempt to nationalize abortion bans across state lines. New York has a protection law that will be tested.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-doctor-indicted-prescribing-abortion-pill-louisiana-rcna190214

Friday’s indictment could be the first direct test of New York’s shield laws, which are intended to protect prescribers who use telehealth to provide abortion pills to patients in states where abortion is banned.

“We always knew that overturning Roe v. Wade wasn’t the end of the road for anti-abortion politicians. That’s why I worked with the Legislature to pass nation-leading laws to protect providers and patients,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a prepared release.

Attorney General Letitia James, who would enforce the shield law, called the indictment a "cowardly attempt" to "weaponize the law against out-of-state providers is unjust and un-American."

James added, "we will not allow bad actors to undermine our providers’ ability to deliver critical care. Medication abortion is safe, effective, and necessary, and New York will ensure that it remains available to all Americans who need it.”

I will be watching this case. I support the NY legal protection law

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-new-york-doctor-protection-shield-161fc73174a04f68e93c4312b3b21ea0

— A law to protect doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is outlawed was signed Friday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, who said the measure would serve women living in states with bans.

Coming a year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, the law bars New York officials from cooperating with certain legal actions initiated in states where abortion is banned, such as arrests or extraditions. New York joins several other states with similar telehealth “shield laws.”

“Extremist lawmakers in other states can stop their health care providers from supplying abortion pills. If that’s your state, I feel sorry for your constituents. But they can’t stop us. They can’t stop our providers,” Hochul, a Democrat, said at a bill signing ceremony.....

Also Friday, Arizona’s Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a sweeping executive order to protect anyone involved with a legally obtained abortion from prosecution.

The order bans local prosecutors from bringing abortion-related charges and state agencies from assisting in any criminal investigations without a court order. In addition, Arizona will not honor any extradition requests for people wanted for assisting, providing or seeking an abortion.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, is the only official who can oversee abortion-related prosecutions.

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