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Texas AG Sues NY County Clerk Over Abortion Pill Case, New York Refuses To Back Down Texas AG Sues NY County Clerk Over Abortion Pill Case, New York Refuses To Back Down
Texas AG Sues NY County Clerk Over Abortion Pill Case, New York Refuses To Back Down A fiery legal showdown between Texas and New York is escalating. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a legal petition against Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck on Monday, July 28, for blocking the Lone Star State’s efforts to collect a $100,000 penalty from a New Paltz doctor. Bruck refused to enforce a judgment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter after Paxton secured the six-figure penalty and permanent injunction against Carpenter for sending abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas resident. Carpenter, who co-founded the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, was sued by Paxton in December…

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by Michael Mashburn
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'You Are Not To Cooperate': Hochul Bars Cops From Arresting Hudson Valley Dr. In Abortion Case 'You Are Not To Cooperate': Hochul Bars Cops From Arresting Hudson Valley Dr. In Abortion Case
'You Are Not To Cooperate': Hochul Bars Cops From Arresting Hudson Valley Dr. In Abortion Case New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is doubling down on her refusal to extradite a Hudson Valley doctor charged with violating Louisiana’s abortion laws. In a video statement Thursday, Feb. 13, Hochul said she would not be signing an extradition order for Ulster County-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter that was sent by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry hours earlier, citing New York’s so-called “shield laws.” Carpenter, a family physician based in New Paltz, was indicted last month by a Louisiana grand jury alongside her medical practice, Nightingale Medical, and a third individual, as Daily Voice reported. The…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Hochul Won't Extradite Hudson Valley Doctor Charged With Prescribing Abortion Pill Hochul Won't Extradite Hudson Valley Doctor Charged With Prescribing Abortion Pill
Hochul Won't Extradite Hudson Valley Doctor Charged With Prescribing Abortion Pill New York will not extradite a Hudson Valley doctor who was criminally charged with violating Louisiana’s abortion laws, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. It comes after a jury indicted Ulster County-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter, of New Paltz, along with her company, Nightingale Medical, and the mother of a minor girl on Friday, Jan. 31, alleging that Carpenter shipped the girl an abortion pill. The pill, Mifeprestone, caused the girl to have a medical emergency which terminated the pregnancy, Baton Rouge CBS affiliate WAFB reports. All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-in…

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by Michael Mashburn