3 Abortion-Ban States Ask Supreme Court to Void Shield Laws for Mailed Pills
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 30
3 Abortion-Ban States Ask Supreme Court to Void Shield Laws for Mailed Pills
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 30
Summary
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear a direct constitutional challenge to shield laws in New York, Massachusetts and California.
The three states argue those laws, which protect providers who prescribe and mail abortion pills into ban states, violate four constitutional provisions requiring interstate legal respect and cooperation.
A parallel federal lawsuit filed the same day against people and groups involved in dispensing abortion pills broadens the attack beyond individual providers and marks a sharper state-versus-state escalation.
More than 100,000 patients a year receive abortion pills from shield-law providers, making the laws a central post-Roe access route and increasing pressure for the justices to weigh in.