Texas AG Ken Paxton has sued a New York doctor for allegedly giving abortion pills to a woman in the Lone Star State.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, has filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor who allegedly provided abortion pills to a woman in the Lone Star State, in violation of Texas law.

Paxton accused Dr. Margaret Carpenter for sending pills from New York to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County, Texas, where the woman allegedly took the drug when she was nine weeks pregnant, according to the lawsuit.

When she started bleeding profusely, she asked the child’s father, who did not know she was pregnant, to rush her to the hospital.

The filing does not mean that the woman has successfully terminated her pregnancy or that she has experienced long-term health problems from taking mifepristone and misoprostol.

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Paxton’s case is the first attempt to test legal protections for states with conflicting abortion laws since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ended the protection of the state in this matter.

Texas has enacted a ban on abortion with few exceptions, while New York protects access to the procedure and has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigation and prosecution, which is seen as a clear permission for doctors to send abortion pills to restricted states.

Texas has vowed to pursue similar cases regardless of the shield laws, though it’s unclear what the courts will decide on the issue, which involves immigration, immigration and other legal questions. New York law allows Carpenter to refuse to comply with Texas court orders.

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It is also unknown whether New York courts will be involved in upholding the Texas law, which prohibits the prescription of abortion drugs by mail and prohibits treating Texas patients or providing medical care without a valid Texas medical license.

The woman is said to have taken mifepristone and misoprostol when she was nine weeks pregnant. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Texas abortion laws prohibit prosecuting a woman for having an abortion, but allow doctors or others who assist a woman in obtaining the procedure to be prosecuted.

The lawsuit alleges that Carpenter, the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, knowingly mistreated Texas residents despite not being a licensed Texas doctor and not authorized to practice telemedicine in the state. Paxton asked the Collin County court to bar Carpenter from violating Texas law and impose civil penalties of at least $100,000 for each violation.

Texas law states that doctors cannot provide abortion medications by mail order and prohibits doctors who are not licensed in Texas from providing telehealth services or prescribing medications to patients in the Lone Star State. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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“This time an out-of-state doctor broke the law and caused great harm to this patient,” said Paxton in a statement. “This doctor prescribed abortion drugs – unlicensed, through the use of telemedicine – which caused his patient to end up in the hospital with serious complications. In Texas, we value the health and lives of mothers and children, that’s why outside the state. doctors may not give illegal and dangerous abortion drugs to Texas citizens.”

Carpenter also works with AidAccess, an international abortion provider, and helped found Hey Jane, a telephone abortion provider.