Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor this week after she prescribed a Lone Star State woman an abortion pill that not only killed her unborn child but sent her to the hospital with life-threatening complications.
In the petition filed on Friday, Paxton alleged that Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine Founder and Co-Medical Director Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter violated the Texas Health and Safety Code when she prescribed a 20-year-old pregnant woman in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex abortion drugs by mail after a virtual appointment in May 2024.
Abortion in Texas is illegal except when the mother is at risk of losing her life or suffering “substantial impairment of a major bodily function,” qualifications that the lawsuit states the pregnant woman did not meet.
It was only with Carpenter, who was no doubt emboldened by the Biden administration’s radical expansion of abortion pill dispensing via mail order and pharmacy sale, that the nine-week pregnant woman was able to obtain the mifepristone and misoprostol pills without alerting the baby’s father. The father learned about the pregnancy and Carpenter’s role in ending it when the woman went to the hospital in July 2024 for hemorrhaging caused by the abortion drug…
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