This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.

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    Why can Ken Paxton sue doctors out of his own fucking state yet family members of women who died because of the abortion ban can’t sue Ken Paxton?

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      Say it together again, folks…

      Conservatism strives to build a system where there is an in-group, which law protects but does not bind, and out-groups which the law binds but does not protect.

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      For the same reason that millions of dollars of police effort are spent to catch one person who kills a billionaire and relatively small sums are spent catching murderers of regular people.

      There are two tiers of justice.