Chemical Abortion Pill pushers have reportedly been illegally sending deadly, preborn life-ending drugs across state lines to pro-life states. They’re allegedly doing it out in the open, practically daring anyone to stop them with no fear of any consequences. 

Until now, this holiday season, Texas became the first to call one of them out in the legal arena. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hit New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter with a lawsuit for allegedly prescribing Chemical Abortion Pills to a pregnant woman in Texas despite its pro-life laws and Carpenter’s lack of a Texas medical license. The pregnant mother ingested the pills, causing severe bleeding and a trip to the emergency room.  

“About mid-May 2024, a 20-year-old female resident of Collin County, Texas became pregnant…The mother did not have any life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from the pregnancy that placed her at risk of death or any serious risk of substantial impairment,” the filing reads. “The mother proceeded to utilize telemedicine or telehealth services and received, through Carpenter, two abortion-inducing drugs or prescriptions. On July 16, 2024, the mother asked the biological father of her unborn child to be taken to the hospital because of hemorrhage or severe bleeding. After the mother was seen by health care professionals at a hospital in Collin County, Texas, the biological father of the unborn child was told that the mother of the unborn child was experiencing a hemorrhage or severe bleeding as she “had been” nine weeks pregnant before losing the child.” (emphasis added) 

So, it’s clear that the symptoms she experienced weren’t from preexisting medical conditions, and the correlation of her life-threatening symptoms aligned with her ingesting the pills. According to the Daily Wire, “Paxton is asking the court to fine the abortionist $100,000 for each violation of the law, including practicing without a license, and mailing abortion drugs.” (emphasis added)  

“The lawsuit targets abortionist Margaret Daley Carpenter, who is not a licensed Texas physician and is not authorized to practice telemedicine in Texas, where abortions…are prohibited under almost all circumstances, except if the life or health of the mother is at risk,” Daily Wire reported. “The law also prohibits physicians or medical suppliers from sending abortion drugs into the state.” 

While there have been some positive sides to telehealth advancements, it’s a big fat con for women and preborn babies everywhere. As SFLA has previously mentioned, “This model has little to no medical supervision, and the results are innocent lives taken while mothers endure intense pain and life-threatening consequences.” However, Carpenter’s whole abortion operation depends on telemedicine and lack of medical supervision. Daily Wire’s reporting on Carpenter’s role as co-medical director and founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT) is now removed from ACT’s website, but not before Daily Wire pointed out her decades of child-killing through chemical and surgical abortion since 1999. 

But here in lies the crucial argument of Paxton’s case. In almost any other medical field, doctors cannot operate as doctors in a state where they don’t have a medical license. Just as a doctor in Florida can’t operate in Michigan, the same goes for Carpenter. She can’t “prescribe” Chemical Abortion Pills from New York to a Texas woman virtually.  

In all other areas, this would be common sense, but when it comes to abortion, these “doctors” seem to think they can get a free pass. However, Paxton’s lawsuit and approach call out the apparent violation of the law regarding medical licenses without even bringing in shield laws, which allow for the prescription mailing of Chemical Abortion Pills from states where abortion is legal to states where abortions are widely outlawed.

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Though Carpenter’s medical license is a huge part of the case, shield laws still play a role, as Mary Ziegler points out in a detailed MSNBC op-ed about the lawsuit and its likelihood of making it to the U.S. Supreme Court due to the lawsuit’s newness and legal gray areas. 

“Texas will argue that New York has no choice because of the Full Faith and Credit Clause, which generally requires states to honor valid, final judgments and decisions of other states,” Ziegler wrote. “Further complicating matters is the fact that Carpenter could sue Texas right back under New York’s shield law, which authorizes so-called clawback lawsuits against anyone who brings a suit that counts as ‘unlawful interference with protected rights.’ If she does, the state will argue it has sovereign immunity from any lawsuit that Carpenter brings under the 11th Amendment, which limits when states can be sued in federal court.” (emphasis added)  

Roe’s fall opened the door for states to decide, but it brought the infancy of its legal complications. One thing isn’t complicated, however, which is the preciousness of preborn lives. SFLA hopes the new year brings legal wins from Texas, Minnesota, and South Carolina.  

The war for innocent lives is far from over, and will continue in 2025 and beyond.

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