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<p>This is the first post-Roe case in which a court official in one state refused to cooperate with a judicial ruling from another state on a matter related to interstate abortion services.</p>
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<p>A public official in Ulster County, New York, is refusing to cooperate with a ruling from a Texas judge ordering a doctor to pay a $113,000 fine for allegedly mailing abortion pills into the southern state. </p>
<p>Acting County Clerk Taylor Bruck will not file the summary judgment ordered against abortion doctor Margaret Daley Carpenter <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261055/texas-sues-new-york-abortionist-for-mailing-abortion-pills" target="null">for allegedly providing abortion pills</a> to women in Texas via mail, a violation of the state’s laws.</p>
<p>The order was issued by Collin County, Texas, District Court Judge Bryan Gantt against Carpenter, a cofounder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine Access (ACT).</p>
<p>This is the first case, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, in which a court official in one state refused to cooperate with a judicial ruling from another state on a matter related to interstate abortion services.</p>
<p>Under Texas law, both surgical and chemical abortions are illegal in most circumstances and it is expressly illegal to supply abortion drugs to a person through the mail. The initial complaint against Carpenter, issued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, also noted that she is not licensed to practice medicine in Texas.</p>
<p>However, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill in 2023 that prohibits New York courts from cooperating with abortion-related court orders from out-of-state judges in pro-life states. The New York “Shield Law” is designed to create a “safe haven” for abortionists.</p>
<p>“I hold my responsibilities and the oath I have taken in the highest regard,” Bruck <a href="https://clerk.ulstercountyny.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03-27%20Rejected%20Filing%20Press%20Release.pdf" target="null">said in a statement</a> after refusing to file the summary judgment.</p>
<p>“In accordance with the New York state shield law, I have refused this filing and will refuse any similar filings that may come to our office,” he continued. “Since this decision is likely to result in further litigation, I must refrain from discussing specific details about the situation.”</p>
<p>Paxton <a href="https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1905306369995276417" target="null">issued a statement on X</a> chastising the county clerk for blocking the summary judgment. </p>
<p>“I am outraged that New York would refuse to allow Texas to pursue enforcement of a civil judgment against a radical abortionist illegally peddling dangerous drugs across state lines,” Paxton wrote. </p>
<p>“New York is shredding the Constitution to hide lawbreakers from justice, and it must end,” he added. “I will not stop my efforts to enforce Texas’ pro-life laws that protect our unborn children and mothers.”</p>
<p>Gantt, who was appointed to the district court in Texas by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in 2024, issued the ruling against Carpenter after she failed to appear at a court hearing in February. The order also prohibits her from mailing abortion pills into the state in the future.</p>
<p>According to Paxton’s lawsuit against Carpenter, the abortionist prescribed abortion drugs to a Texas woman after seeing the patient virtually via a telehealth appointment. The alleged drugs killed the unborn child and caused severe bleeding for the woman, which required her to seek medical attention at a hospital.</p>
<p>Carpenter is a co-medical director and cofounder of ACT, which <a href="https://www.theactgroup.org/who-we-are" target="null">advertises on its website</a> that it makes abortion available “in all 50 states” and specifically offers “telemedicine care for patients in abortion-hostile states.” The organization supplies women with abortion pills up to the 12th week of pregnancy.</p>
<p>ACT was formed in 2022 in response to lawmakers in some states enacting pro-life laws after the Supreme Court overturned <i>Roe v. Wade</i>.</p>
<p>In February, Carpenter was also indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly supplying abortion drugs to a minor in that state, in violation of state law. Hochul said at the time that the doctor would not be extradited to Louisiana, citing New York’s shield law.</p>
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