Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana mother, New York doctor indicted for allegedly giving minor abortion pills
Synopsis
A New York doctor has become the first physician criminally indicted by a state with an abortion ban. She was practicing under New York’s shield law, which protects doctors who prescribe abortion medication across state lines to patients living in states with abortion bans. Louisiana prosecutors charged Dr. Maggie Carpenter alongside a mother who allegedly gave abortion pills to her underage daughter, reports Louisiana Illuminator’s Lorena O’Neil.
The case illustrates how abortion bans are reaching across borders to target doctors for providing abortion care.
The case out of Louisiana against a licensed New York doctor is the latest in a series of threats that jeopardizes women’s access to reproductive healthcare throughout this country.
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