US states prepare for battle over abortion pills
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Source: Raw Story/AFP
March 7, 2025 11:21PM ET
The anti-abortion movement in the United States has set its sights on a new target: doctors sending pills across state lines to help women end unwanted pregnancies. 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.
Women seeking to end pregnancies, even victims of rape or incest, are now obliged to travel long distances or to seek the delivery of abortion pills from other jurisdictions. And that measure is now under attack. Texas and Louisiana are launching a legal case against a doctor in New York, a state which in turn has passed a "shield law" to protect its physicians from outside prosecutions.
"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. "And those are just, I think in some ways, the tip of the iceberg. We're likely to see a lot more of these cross-border fights.
"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. "And from New York's standpoint, they're saying: 'Our doctor wasn't doing anything wrong. Why are you trying to prosecute her?'"
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