New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejected a request to extradite a doctor who was charged with prescribing abortion pills online to a Louisiana resident last month. Margaret Carpenter. Jeff Landry signed Tuesday. A grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish District Court indicted Carpenter last month along with her company , Nightingale Medical, and the Louisiana mother who ordered the pills online for her child, a pregnant minor.
All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony. Carpenter did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Wade was overturned. I hope this is going to have a chilling effect on [Dr. Carpenter] and anyone else to stop sending the pills to my state.
After the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade in , Louisiana's near-total abortion ban, which does not allow exceptions for rape or incest, went into effect. Doctors take an oath to protect their patients. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also sued Carpenter in December alleging she sent abortion pills to that state; however, that case did not include criminal charges.
After Carpenter was indicted, Hochul signed another piece of legislation allowing abortion providers to use the names of their practices instead of their own names on prescription labels.
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