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New York and Texas in Legal Clash Over Abortion Pill—What to Know

The fight pits Texas’s abortion ban against New York laws that allow its doctors to prescribe abortion pills to out-of-state patients.
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New York and Texas in Legal Clash Over Abortion Pill—What to Know
Mifepristone tablets in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo
Stacy Robinson
Stacy Robinson
8/2/2025|Updated: 8/2/2025
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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 is now seeking a “writ of mandamus,” a court order requiring Bruck to enforce the judgment against Carpenter.

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Stacy Robinson is a politics reporter for the Epoch Times, occasionally covering cultural and human interest stories. Based out of Washington, D.C. he can be reached at [email protected]
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