Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider
The lawsuit will test the strength of Texas' near-total abortion ban against a New York shield law that protects physicians who provide abortions.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed his first lawsuit against an out-of-state abortion provider, alleging that a New York physician prescribed abortion-inducing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine.
Abortions are outlawed in Texas except when a pregnant person faces a "life-threatening condition," with no exceptions for rape, incest or fatal fetal anomalies.
Paxton is seeking $250,000 in damages for the alleged violations of the state's abortion ban and other laws, including one that requires doctors to be licensed in Texas to administer telehealth services in the state.
It also further escalates Paxton's crusade against pregnancy terminations both inside and outside of Texas' bounds, coming nearly two months after he sued the city of Austin for funding travel expenses for residents seeking out-of-state abortions.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/pol...967237007/
The lawsuit will test the strength of Texas' near-total abortion ban against a New York shield law that protects physicians who provide abortions.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed his first lawsuit against an out-of-state abortion provider, alleging that a New York physician prescribed abortion-inducing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine.
Abortions are outlawed in Texas except when a pregnant person faces a "life-threatening condition," with no exceptions for rape, incest or fatal fetal anomalies.
Paxton is seeking $250,000 in damages for the alleged violations of the state's abortion ban and other laws, including one that requires doctors to be licensed in Texas to administer telehealth services in the state.
It also further escalates Paxton's crusade against pregnancy terminations both inside and outside of Texas' bounds, coming nearly two months after he sued the city of Austin for funding travel expenses for residents seeking out-of-state abortions.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/pol...967237007/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
