3mo ago

Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman

www.texastribune.org Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman

This case sets up a legal battle between Texas’ near-total abortion ban and New York’s shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution.

This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.

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3mo ago

Texas files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider

www.texastribune.org /2024/12/13/texas-paxton-abortion-pill-mail-lawsuit/

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Why can Ken Paxton sue doctors out of his own fucking state yet family members of women who died because of the abortion ban can't sue Ken Paxton?
- Say it together again, folks...
  Conservatism strives to build a system where there is an in-group, which law protects but does not bind, and out-groups which the law binds but does not protect.
  
  I think this is not conservatism, but a bunch of crooks, holding power in the state, who play to the most radical elements to shore up their theft of state funds.
- For the same reason that millions of dollars of police effort are spent to catch one person who kills a billionaire and relatively small sums are spent catching murderers of regular people.
  There are two tiers of justice.
- They can't. These lawsuits are going nowhere.
- You can file a lawsuit against large numbers of people if you're willing to pay the filing fee. That's different from getting anywhere in the suit.

Texas is Suing New York because Conservatives believe in STATES RIGHTS!
- Except when they don't
- "States' rights to do what?"
  "Control people."
- State's rights to sue people in other states.
- Bold of you to assume they have principles.

Texas, you DON'T FUCKING OWN PEOPLE!
- They fought a war of independence from Mexico so that they could continue to own people, then left the US and fought another war to keep owning them.
  Texas wishes it could still own people.

trying to imagine what horseshit the supreme court will trot out to defend this

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