Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a petition Monday to compel a county clerk in New York to abide by a court-ordered summary judgment and fine against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas.
Paxton filed a petition seeking a writ of mandamus, which would compel Ulster County Acting Clerk Taylor Bruck to file the Texas judgment in New York state court. Because New York is one of eight states that have a telehealth shield law protecting abortion providers from out-of-state litigation or prosecutions, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, the judgment against Carpenter is not enforceable in New York unless the county clerk files it.
Bruck has twice denied Paxton’s request to enforce the fine. It is illegal in Texas to mail or receive abortion pills through the mail, and the state bans all abortions except when the mother faces a “life-threatening condition.” Medicated abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in 2023, according to Guttmacher.
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