This case sets up a legal battle between Texas’ near-total abortion ban and New York’s shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that the doctor prescribed abortion-inducing medication to a woman in Texas in violation of the state's laws.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a doctor from New Paltz, New York, for prescribing abortion pills to a woman in his state, where there is a near-total ban on the procedure. In New York, doctors are shielded from out-of-state prosecution.