Texas Judge Mushrooms in Modern York Doctor and orders her to stop sending abortion tablets to Texas

In a case that may have sedate implications for access to abortion in the United States, on Thursday, the Texas judge ordered the Modern York doctor to stop prescribing and sending abortion tablets to patients in Texas and pay a criminal in the amount of over 100,000 USD for providing drugs for one woman.

It is widely expected that the case will reach the Supreme Court and become a key test in the escalation of the battle between countries prohibiting abortion and countries supporting the rights of abortion. He basically sets Texas, who has an almost total ban on abortion against Modern York, who is “telemedicine of the abortion of the abortion”, which aims to protect abortion suppliers who send medicines to patients in other states.

These provisions have become a key strategy for abortion rights, since the Supreme Court has repealed the national right to abortion in 2022, the provisions adopted so far in eight states, a reservation that officials and agencies will not cooperate with civil laws, prosecutors or other activities Legal submitted against healthcare providers who prescribe and send abortion drugs to patients in other states.

Such provisions constitute a clear departure from typical inter -stanker practices, honoring a call to call and provide information. Pursuant to the provisions on the protection of telemedicine, which have been used since the summer of 2023, healthcare providers in states where abortion is legal, sent over 10,000 abortion tablets per month to patients in the US with bans on abortion or restrictions.

The claim from Texas was filed in December by the Prosecutor General in Texas, Ken Paxton, against dr Margaret Daley Carpenter from Modern Paltz, who cooperates with telemedicine abortion organizations to provide tablets for patients throughout the country. The claim claims that Dr. Carpenter, who is not licensed in Texas, provided a woman in Texas.

The order signed on Thursday by judge Bryan Gantt from the District Court Collin said that Dr. Carpenter “is permanently ordered to prescribe drugs causing abortion to the inhabitants of Texas.” Violation of the order may cause a decision to contempt a judge who may contain an additional financial penalty or prison sentence. The judge also ordered a fine of $ 100,000 and about USD 13,000 for legal fees and court costs plus interest.

Thanks to Modern York protection, protecting cooperation with legal actions from outside the state of Dr. Carpenter and her lawyers did not respond to a lawsuit in Texas or appeared in court at the trial before the judge.

The 40-minute session in court north of Dallas was extremely peaceful and calming in terms of such controversy and national significance.

Two lawyers to the office of the Prosecutor General asked the judge to issue a hazardous judgment in their favor, basically a ruling against the defendant who did not appear or answer.

The lawyers of the Prosecutor General argued in the court files that because Dr. Carpenter did not answer at a specified time, Texas’s law recognizes that “the defendant, by her non -performed, granted all the accusations of the plaintiffs to actually establish liability.”

The defense table was empty. About 30 minutes at the trial, Judge Gantt said: “I noticed that she was not here.” He asked the lawyers of the Prosecutor General if they heard this morning from Dr. Carpenter.

When they said “no”, the judge asked the bailiff to “call the room” and announced the name of Dr. Carpenter in the corridor before the court. Less than a minute later, the bailiff returned and said: “High honor, I called Margaret Daley Carpenter without response three times.”

Texas was the first country with an abortion that would initiate legal proceedings against abortion suppliers in states with shield law. But it is expected that other states with prohibitions of abortion will follow in their footsteps.

In January, the first penalty charges against an abortion provider were filed with a shield right. In this case, the great state jury in Louisiana issued a criminal indictment, also against Dr. Carpenter, accusing her of violating the almost total ban on abortion in Louisian by sending tablets to this state.

On Thursday, the Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, said that he had signed an order trying to extract Dr. Carpenter to his condition to stand before court. Modern York governor, Kathy Hochul, responded to the law of protection and saying: “I do not sign an extradition order that comes from the governor of Louisiana, not now, never,”.

Texas and Louisiana cases are expected to lead to court battles with Modern York.

Experts say that refusal in Modern York can lead Louisiana to ask federal courts to order extradition. The potential result is unclear, but Mary Ziegler, a professor of law and an abortion expert at the University of California, Davis, said that there is a legal precedent for extradition, which were not required for the accused who were not in a state in which the alleged crime It was committed and it did, do not run away from this state.

In the civil case, Texas is believed that he can submit a petition at the State Court in Modern York to try to receive a financial penalty. If Modern York quoted his right of a shield to argue against the sentence in Texas, as expected, the case may transform into a battle in the federal court, or the Supreme Court about whether the law of the shield is constitutional, enabling one state to refuse to cooperate with others state legal actions.

Dr. Carpenter was not reaching for commentary or on the affairs of Texas or Louisiana. . Abortion coalition for telemedicineThe organization she founded issued statements in response to matters. “The provisions regarding the cover are necessary to protect and enable abortion care, regardless of the patient’s postal code to pay,” said the coalition. “They are of fundamental importance to ensure access to everything to reproductive health care as human rights.”

The lawsuit in Texas accuses Dr. Carpenter of the delivery of a 20-year-old woman of two drugs used in the standard abortion, mifepriston and mizoprostol. Usually used for 12 weeks for pregnancy, Mifepriston blocks the hormone needed to develop pregnancy, and mizoprostol, downloaded 24 to 48 hours later, causes miscarriage cramps.

According to the complaint lodged by the Office of the Prosecutor General in Texas, a woman who was in nine weeks of pregnancy asked the “biological father of her unborn child” to take her to the ambulance in July “because of hemorrhage or hefty bleeding.” On Wednesday, on Wednesday, Ernest C. Garcia, head of the Administrative Law Department at the office of the Prosecutor General, said that in the hospital the partner “finally found out she was pregnant” and that “then he began to suspect suspicion that maybe she was not truthful in this.”

When the man returned home, he found medication and realized that they were taken to cause abortion, said Garcia, adding “he lodged this person to the office of the Prosecutor General in Texas.”

The case of Texas is an example of a growing pattern in the United States with prohibitions of abortion: men reported to the authorities that their partners had abortions. In Texas there were other such cases, and John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life, said in an interview that in the coming weeks several men plan to file a lawsuit for unlawful death towards doctors, organizations or people who helped in those who helped organize abortion for men’s partners.

Emily Cochrane reporting brought.