A county clerk in New York refused Thursday to file a more than $100,000 judgment from Texas against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, setting up a potential challenge to laws designed to shield abortion providers who serve patients in states with abortion bans.
Republican Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton said he was outraged by the refusal and signaled he would take action.
“New York is shredding the Constitution to hide lawbreakers from justice, and it must end,” Paxton said on X.
Bruck became acting county clerk last year after a resignation and has been endorsed by county Democrats for election to the post.
A call seeking comment was made to Carpenter, who is the co-medical director and founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.
Also in Texas, a Waller County judge issued a temporary injunction preventing a network of Houston-area clinics from reopening.
Maria Margarita Rojas has been charged by Paxton’s office with providing an illegal abortion and practicing medicine without a license. »