Since the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal protection of the right to an abortion, states like Texas and Louisiana have adopted tough anti-abortion laws.
And that measure is now under attack.
“These are the first kind of cross-border fights that we’ve seen since Roe was overturned,“ said California legal scholar Mary Ziegler, referring to the 2022 Supreme Court decision.
“From Texas or Louisiana’s standpoint, they’re saying: ‘Why is this doctor mailing pills into our state?’” explained Ziegler, a professor at the law school at the University of California, Davis.
‘Chilling effect’
Margaret Carpenter, a New York doctor and a co-founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, was ordered to stop sending pills to Texas and fined $100,000.
Hochul said the state’s shield law was designed to “anticipate this very situation.”
This accounts for approximately 10,000 women each month.
Now, abortion rights activists fear that individual doctors will be targeted.
“And I think the goal is both to, you know, scare those individuals... and there’s a chilling effect from that,“ said Friedrich-Karnik, a policy director at the pro-abortion rights think tank.
“This is a long-lasting debate, even if it goes to the Supreme Court,“ Ziegler said.
“There’s not... going to be one clean solution that the Supreme Court reaches that resolves this once and for all.”
Meanwhile, the attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri have demanded that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) end prescriptions of the pill via online medical visits -- effectively restricting access nationwide.
“There’s uncertainty about what Trump is going to do. There’s uncertainty about what power states have to project power outside of state lines. There’s uncertainty about what the FDA is going to do,“ Ziegler said.
“Simply not knowing can impact patients and doctors. But that’s the scenario right now -- there’s a big question mark around a lot of it.”
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