Abortion rights advocates and opponents agree that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a New York doctor is just one step in the

A man, according to a lawsuit, searched a house to find evidence that a woman had taken mifepristone and misoprostol. From there, Paxton’s office learned about the test case he’s been searching for to challenge blue-state abortion shield laws.

A fragile truce between the states on abortion just collapsed: Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a doctor in New York for mailing pills into the state. The physician,

The attorney general of Texas is suing a doctor in New York for sending abortion pills to a patient in the Lone Star state, setting the stage for a new chapter in the battle for abortion access in states that ban the procedure altogether.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a New York-based abortionist for violating Texas law by shipping abortion drugs into the state.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, has filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion drugs to a woman in the Lone Star State, violating Texas law. Paxton accused Dr. Margaret Carpenter of mailing pills from New ...

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced Friday he is suing a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing a Collin County woman abortion drugs in

It sets up a legal battle over the Texas abortion ban and a dueling New York law set up to shield doctors who prescribe abortion care to out-of-state patients.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a New York doctor who he claims unlawfully provided abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas resident.

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.

The lawsuit faces a tough legal challenge because New York has a shield law that protects doctors from prosecutions and investigations in other states if they prescribe abortion medication. But both surgical and medicated abortions are illegal in Texas.