How New York’s abortion law has changed. On the 46th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, New York state passed a law to protect women’s access to abortion if the historic case is overturned.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed new legislation that will protect the state's doctors, medical providers and facilitators who prescribe abortion care telehealth services to patients outside ...

Texas has sought to fine a New York-based doctor who prescribed mifepristone to a Dallas woman, in a case likely headed to ...

KINGSTON — Last week, Texas tried for the second time to force New York to recognize a ruling against a Hudson Valley doctor ...

An upstate county clerk refused to fine a doctor who was sued in Texas after being accused of prescribing abortion medication ...

Meanwhile, New York is among several states that enforce shield laws—something abortion-banned states are beginning to challenge—which protect abortion providers from legal threats for mailing ...

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.

The new law in New York expands the state’s shield laws for healthcare providers who provide abortion services to other states, making it one of eight Democrat-led states with such protections.

New York on Monday reinforced its standing as a reproductive-rights sanctuary by enacting laws that allow patients and health-care providers to counter-punch against legal attacks on abortion that ...

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.

New York is among the Democratic-led states that have enacted “shield laws” to protect doctors who prescribe abortion medication to patients who live in states where abortion is restricted ...

On the 46th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, New York state passed a law to protect women’s access to abortion if the historic case is overturned.