Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a New York doctor for breaking the law and prescribing abortion medication to Texans across state lines.

The lawsuit accuses Margaret Daley Carpenter, co-founder of The Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT), of prescribing abortion pills to people in Texas via telehealth appointments.

Abortion pills are illegal in Texas.

The Hill notes, "New York, like many other Democratic-leaning states, has a shield law in place protecting providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions if they prescribe or send abortion medication to people living in states with abortion restrictions."

According to the lawsuit, Carpenter mailed abortion pills to a 20-year-old girl in Collin County, Texas, who used them to abort her baby.

The lawsuit states:

About mid-May 2024, a 20-year-old female resident of Collin County, Texas became pregnant. The mother of the unborn child did not communicate her pregnancy to the biological father of the unborn child. The mother did not have any life threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from the pregnancy that placed her at risk of death or any serious risk of substantial impairment. The mother proceeded to utilize telemedicine or telehealth services and received, through Carpenter, two abortion-inducing drugs or prescriptions. The first was a box for the drug mifepristone, 200 mg, followed by the "#1" and the directions to take 1 tablet by mouth and to "take this medication first." The second was a pill bottle of misoprostol 200 mcg with directions to take 4 tablets (i.e., 800 mcg.) after the mifepristone.