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.

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.

A New York doctor has been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

According to the Associated Press, it appears to be the first time a doctor has been criminally charged for allegedly sending pills across state lines since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, which allowed states to implement strict abortion laws.

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.