A New York judge has dismissed a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to enforce the Lone Star state’s abortion penalty in the Empire State.
Justice David Gandin of the Ulster County Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of County Clerk Taylor Bruck, who had refused to file a $113,000 Texas judgment against a Manhattan-based doctor.
The ruling upholds New York’s so-called abortion “shield law,” which bars officials from cooperating with out-of-state law enforcement actions targeting abortion services that are legal in New York.
Paxton sued Dr. Margaret Carpenter in December 2024 under Texas’s near-total abortion ban, accusing her of illegally prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a 20-year-old Texas woman, an act he said “resulted in the killing of an unborn child and serious medical complications for the mother.”…