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.

  • @frostysauce
    3•4 hours ago

    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.