Texas Sues NY Clerk Over Abortion Drug Judgment

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a legal petition to force Ulster County, New York, Acting Clerk Taylor Bruck to enforce a $100,000 Texas court judgment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills to a Texas patient in violation of Texas law. Bruck has twice refused to file the judgment, citing New York's abortion shield law that protects providers from out-of-state legal actions. Paxton's lawsuit highlights an unprecedented interstate clash over abortion law enforcement since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. New York officials, including Governor Kathy Hochul, have pledged to resist Texas’s efforts and uphold protections for abortion providers. The case could set a major legal precedent and may reach the Supreme Court, testing state sovereignty and the limits of abortion restrictions. Separately, Dr. Carpenter also faces unrelated criminal charges in Louisiana for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a minor.