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Texas is suing a New York doctor<\/a> for prescribing mifepristone and misoprostol \u2014 the pills used for medication abortion \u2014 to a Texas resident via telemedicine, an alleged violation of the state\u2019s strict abortion law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedecine, in Collin County civil court on Thursday. Carpenter doesn\u2019t face criminal charges, but the state is seeking up to a $250,000 fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This is the first time Texas has sued an out-of-state doctor for providing abortion services to a Texas patient via telemedicine. Notably, New York, where Carpenter is based, has a \u201cshield law\u201d<\/a> that\u2019s designed to protect doctors who prescribe and send abortion pills to patients in other states, including those that, like Texas, have outlawed abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cRegardless of what the courts in Texas do, the real question is whether the courts in New York recognize it,\u201d Greer Donley, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told the Texas Tribune<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n