The new law builds on the state’s telemedicine abortion shield, which prevents New York authorities from cooperating with out-of-state prosecutions targeting abortion providers.

These legal actions could prompt the first challenges to New York’s so-called shield law, which was designed to protect abortion clinicians from being targeted by states that restrict the procedure.

Trump's declaration that abortion access is best left to the states has focused attention on the role state abortion referendums, including one in New York, will play on Nov. 5.

The case against Dr. Margaret Carpenter appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a patient in another state.

New York enacted a law on Monday intended to protect the state's doctors from prosecution by other states that have banned abortions when they prescribe and mail out abortion pills.

Most states with abortion bans don’t allow citizen-led ballot initiatives, but that hasn’t stopped activists from harnessing the backlash.

Republican Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton wants a New York court to enforce a civil decision from Texas against Dr.

A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to take legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas ...

New York law already includes strong protections for abortion rights. The 2019 Reproductive Health Act enshrined Roe v. Wade in state law. Abortion is legal through the 24th week of pregnancy.

The new law allows doctors to request for their names to be left off abortion pill bottles and instead list the name of their health care practices on medication labels.

The new law will take effect less than a week after a New York physician was indicted by a grand jury in Louisiana on felony charges related to providing an abortion pill to a young patient in ...