Shield Laws Are Fault Line in Battle Over Abortion Access

State v. state battles over abortion laws are coming to a head – and likely will end up at the Supreme Court
Rather than take judges out of the national debate over abortion, as the 2022 Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe V. Wade promised to do, that ruling has unleashed a new wave of legal questions – including how to settle disputes between the states about whether their abortion laws can be applied outside their borders.
Shield Laws Are the Fault Line in the Battle Over Abortion Access
Society / New York’s shield law was designed to protect providers mailing medication abortion pills out of state. But a New York provider is facing legal action in Louisiana and Texas. Rachel Rebouché Can a doctor who lives in and practices medicine in the state of New York be fined by a Texas court for violating Texas’s abortion ban and licensure law,
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Authorities in Texas and Louisiana have taken legal action against a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing self-administered abortion pills to their residents through telemedicine and mailing them across state lines.
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Louisiana’s attorney general is seeking to extradite a New York doctor who prescribed and sent abortion medication through the mail to a resident of the Pelican State, escalating a legal battle surrounding the doctor that could test the limits of state abortion shield laws.
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By Rebekah Sager for the Michigan Independent. Broadcast version by Chrystal Blair for Michigan News Connection reporting for the Michigan Independent-Public News Service Collaboration The AP reported on Jan.
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