(LifeSiteNews) — An abortionist who illegally shipped abortion drugs into Texas is being protected by a New York county clerk and the entire state, prompting legal action by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The Texas attorney general announced on Monday he would “take legal action” against Taylor Bruck, the New York Acting County Clerk for Ulster County. Paxton has already secured a $100,000 judgement against abortionist Margaret Carpenter for illegally sending abortion drugs into Texas, “which resulted in the killing of an unborn child and serious medical complications for the mother,” according to a news release.
However, Bruck is refusing to help enforce the law and instead citing a state law that shields abortionists and ensures they never face consequences. Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signed the law to protect abortionists from prosecution when they send drugs illegally into other states.
“Attorney General Paxton has now submitted a petition seeking a writ of mandamus to ensure that Dr. Carpenter pays the penalty for breaking the law,” Paxton’s office announced.
“Dr. Carpenter is a radical abortionist who must face justice, not get legal protection from New York liberals intent on ending the lives of as many unborn children as they can,” Paxton stated. “No matter where they reside, pro-abortion extremists who send drugs designed to kill the unborn into Texas will face the full force of our state’s pro-life laws.”
Carpenter runs the “Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.”
As previously reported by LifeSiteNews in February, Judge Bryan Gantt of North Texas ordered Carpenter to stop sending abortion pills into the state and to pay a $100,000 fine, challenging the abortion lobby’s strategy of circumventing pro-life laws by mailing abortion pills across state lines.
Carpenter also appears to have broken the law in Louisiana by shipping the deadly drugs into the state multiple times.
The disputes over abortion drugs is the latest battle in the dispute over whether all human beings should be protected from intentional killing, as pro-lifers say, or whether only some lives are worth protecting, as abortion activists claim.
Since the Biden administration, Democrats have typically sought to allow for the free distribution of dangerous abortion drugs across the country through the mail, sometimes from overseas, and with little to no oversight. Particularly after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Democratic leaders have sought to undermine the rule of law and have refused to help pro-life states prosecute illegal abortionists.
Currently, 22 states and the District of Columbia have protections for illegal abortionists, according to the pro-abortion Kaiser Family Foundation.
While abortion pills can never be “safe,” because they always intend to deliberately destroy a preborn baby, they are also dangerous for women.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has repeatedly promised to investigate their approval. However pro-life leaders have expressed frustration at the slow place the Trump administration has moved on this issue.
Pro-life medical experts recently renewed their push to have Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the FDA investigate the issues following a harrowing study that found abortion drug adverse effects were much more serious than thought.
“The data strongly suggest that mifepristone poses a far greater risk of causing harm than previously stated. In fact, the risk of serious complications may be 22 times higher than previously disclosed,” a coalition letter released in early July states.
