A Texas judge ordered a New York doctor to be fined $100,000 after she prescribed abortion pills to a Texas woman in a ruling that could challenge the Democratic state’s shield law.
The judge also ordered a permanent injunction preventing Carpenter from prescribing abortion drugs to Texas residents and from practicing in Texas without a license to do so in the state.
In December, the state of Texas accused Dr. Maggie Carpenter, a family medicine doctor who practices in New York, of violating Texas law by providing abortion-inducing drugs to Texans via telehealth.
The southern state bans abortion in almost all cases and also bans abortion pills from being prescribed through telemedicine.
Carpenter is also one of the founders of Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, which was formed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
