A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State’s shield law against the two conservative states’ abortion bans, which are among the strictest in the country.

I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

That amendment, called Reproductive Freedom for All, was passed by voters in 2022. Attorneys with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office argue that the 24-hour waiting period does not burden access to abortion.

The Northland Family Planning Center is asking a Michigan Court of Claims judge to find three abortion laws are unconstitutional.