New York Judge Blocks Texas’s Effort to Enforce Abortion Penalty Against Manhattan Doctor

A New York physician is facing legal action from both Texas and Louisiana for allegedly prescribing and mailing abortion pills to women there.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017. AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File

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.