Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman provided comments in Spectrum News 1 article on the legal battle surrounding the states of Texas and New York on abortion rights. The conversation comes after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against a New York doctor for prescribing a medical abortion drug to a Texas woman.
I think, unfortunately, what happens now is this becomes a federal issue that could ultimately end up at the Supreme Court. It is hard to parse, even as a lawyer, which states law should dominate in this situation,” said Chatman
She also highlighted the unique challenge in determining the weight of one state’s law over another.
It’s virtually impossible to say that one state’s law can dominate everyone in a state when we’ve got the advent of telemedicine and all of these technological advances that make our lives better. It’s just, it’s really hard for a single state to regulate. It almost makes all health care a federal issue, to a degree, or at least the prescribing of medication, a federal issue.” Chatman continued.
Read the full article here: Legal showdown looms between Texas, New York over prescribing abortion pills
