NY Official Declines to Enforce Texas Fine in Abortion Pill Suit

March 28, 2025, 12:05 AM UTC

A New York state official said Thursday he wasn’t going to enforce a $100,000 judgment that Texas imposed on a doctor who prescribed abortion inducing medication to a Dallas-area woman.

Taylor Bruck—acting clerk of Ulster County, New York—said in a letter that he wasn’t filing summary judgment against Dr. Maggie Carpenter pursuant to the Empire State’s Shield Law. The law, which has been similarly enacted in other Democrat-led states, is intended to protect physicians from litigation after the US Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to an abortion.

“I have refused this filing and will refuse any similar filings that ...

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