GYN to stop sending abortion pills to patients in Texas and to pay a $100,000 fine for sending the medications to a woman in the state, setting up a legal battle that could change the landscape of abortion access in the U.

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.

It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans.