{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Radio Chatskill","title":"Ulster County Clerk Rejects Texas Filing Against New Paltz Doctor in Abortion Lawsuit","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":217,"description":"The Ulster County clerk says he will not file a summary judgement against a New Paltz, New York doctor being sued in Texas for prescribing abortion medication via telehealth.\nDr. Margaret Carpenter is facing a civil lawsuit for mailing two abortion pills, mifepristone and misoprostal, to a woman in Texas, which bans nearly all abortions. In the suit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims Carpenter violated the Texas ban and effectively practiced medicine in Texas without a license. Carpenter didn’t show at a Texas court hearing last month, and New York has refused to cooperate in accordance with its shield law protecting abortion providers from out-of-state lawsuits.\nActing Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck says he received a request from a Texas court to file a summary judgement against Carpenter that included more than $100,000 in penalties and attorney fees. But he says he won’t be moving on it.\n“In the shield law, it specifically states that no government employee shall cooperate with an out-of-state proceeding, civil or criminal, regarding health care services rendered that are legal in New York state,\" says Bruck. \"Upon on our reading of the law, it’s very clear that we are not to cooperate with this or expend government resources on it. So we decided to reject it and kick it back to Texas.”\nNew York is one of eight states nationwide that has a shield law protecting abortion providers. This case is considered the first test of those laws, and it’s not the only one: Carpenter also faces a criminal indictment for sending abortion medication to a teenager in Louisiana. New York has refused to extradite Carpenter in that case.\nMary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, says it’s possible these cases will eventually find their way to the Supreme Court.\n“It’s definitely something we’ve expected to see, this kind of inter-state conflict around abortion,\" she explains. \"This is a question about states’ rights, right? And when states...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q7XXsnSXT_u4mZLCn3chUorwDmUD_kWiB272D6emB18/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Uy/OGY5MWUwZThkYTEw/NDVkZGM2ZGZkZDIw/ZjliOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}