New York vs. Texas

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a first-of-its-kind bill Friday, May 24, classifying two abortion-inducing drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled and dangerous substances. AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Taylor Bruck, a clerk from Ulster County, New York, after he refused to impose a $100,000 fine against a doctor who mailed abortion pills to a patient in Texas.

Texas law forbids most abortions, with exceptions when the mother’s life is at risk, or if the pregnancy will result in “substantial impairment of a major bodily function.”