A New York doctor was indicted in Louisiana for providing an abortion pill online, potentially facing 15 years in prison and a $200,000 fine. The case highlights state conflicts on abortion rights post-Roe v.

Dr. Margaret Carpenter, from New York, was indicted by a grand jury for prescribing an abortion pill to a teenager in Louisiana, where the procedure is banned. The pill was sent through the mail.

In one of the country’s first-of-its-kind criminal indictments, a New York doctor is facing criminal charges in Louisiana after prosecutors say she prescribed an abortion pill to a young woman who was a minor.

A Louisiana mother and a New York doctor have been indicted for allegedly providing abortion medication to a minor, in what’s believed to be the first case of its kind in the country seeking to criminalize the provision of abortion medication obtained through the mail.

A New York doctor has been indicted on criminal charges by a grand jury in Louisiana for allegedly prescribing abortion medication online to a Louisiana resident in April. Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who practices in New Paltz, was charged Friday with criminal abortion by means of abortion inducing drugs.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there.

The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.