Ken Paxton Bags Another Loss in Battle Against Shield Laws

Ken Paxton Bags Another Loss in Battle Against Shield Laws

It’s nearly the one-year anniversary of when Texas’ anti-abortion attorney general, Ken Paxton, filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a New York doctor who allegedly mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas in 2024. In December, Paxton sued Dr. Margaret Carpenter, claiming she violated Texas’s near-total abortion ban, seeking a $113,000 fine and the loss of her license. As of Friday, there’s officially been, *checks notes*, absolutely zero …