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A #NY state court on Thurs blocked #Texas from filing a legal action against a NY #doctor for prescribing & sending #abortion pills to a TX woman.
The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion & states that support #AbortionRights.
The dispute is widely expected to reach #SCOTUS, pitting TX, which has a near-total #AbortionBan, against NY.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/new-york-texas-abortion-shield-law.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=65E1BF1E-9FF5-4478-BBFD-6D99DC29614E
#NY has a #ShieldLaw that is intended to protect #AbortionProviders who send medications to patients in other states.
New York is 1 of 8 states that have enacted “telemedicine abortion shield laws” after #SCOTUS overturned the national right to an #abortion in 2022. The laws prevent ofcls from extraditing abortion providers to other states or from responding to subpoenas & other #legal actions…
The action by the NY court is the first time that an abortion shield law has been used.
@Nonilex Last I checked, the Constitution (Art. 1, s. 8) gives Congress, not individual states like Texas, the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”.
@bhawthorne @Nonilex even though that’s what it says—wait til they pull out the Comstock Act.
Congress has been remiss in not getting rid of old laws and statutes