A New York county clerk used the state’s shield law to stop Texas from punishing a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion medication to a Texas woman.

The move is the latest escalation in an interstate battle between New York and Texas, their differing abortion laws and the future of Margaret Carpenter, a New York state doctor who works at a telemedicine abortion organization.

In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Carpenter for violating the state’s abortion ban after she allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion medication to a........

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