By james art 
The mother of Louisiana and a doctor in New York are accused of supposedly providing medicines for abortion to a minor, what is believed to be the first case in the country in the country who wants to criminalize the provision of abortion medicines received through the mail S
The big jury of West Baton Rouge submitted the accusations on Friday to Margaret Carpenter and Nightingale Medical and the minor’s mother. Both are accused of deliberately causing an abortion “by delivering, distributing, distributing or providing a” pregnant woman with a “medicine, introductory abortion.” The fee carries penalties up to five years in prison and $ 50,000 fines.
WWNO/WRKF does not name the mother to protect the identity of the minor. Clayton said he would not pursue accusations against a minor, which is in accordance with Louisiana’s abortion laws. Laws that criminalize the provision of abortion in the country, and a new law that shocks two drugs that can cause abortions, Mifepristone and Misoprostol, more specially released pregnant women.
The case is a significant escalation in the legitimate landscape of the criminalization of abortion. This is the first accusation of a Louisiana resident as part of a ban on abortions of the country that came into force after the US Supreme Court canceled Rowe against Wade in 2022, and this is one of the first challenges to the laws adopted in some blue countries designed to protect the abortion suppliers they provide, who provide abortion suppliers who provide abortion suppliers who provide abortion suppliers who provide abortion suppliers that provide women’s women’s pills with prohibitions.
Farah Diaz-Talo, senior councilor and legal director for IF/when/how a lawyer for reproductive justice, said it was the first accusation of such a supplier, insofar as her knowledge was.
“I am not aware of other cases where a state is trying to charge a supplier in another country,” she said.
The New Orleans Health Department has released a new card showing which pharmacies in the city is stocking the drug Misoprostol.
Prosecutor General of Louisiana Liz Muriel praised the accusation of xS “It is illegal to send abortion pills to this condition (SIC) and it is illegal to force another to have an abortion,” Murill wrote. “I said it before and I will say it again: we will keep people responsible for breaching the law.”
In an interview with Talk Louisiana on Friday, an assistant prosecutor Tony Clayton said he had sought the indictments and would pursue the case. He said Carpenter was sending the pills to the mother who gave the girl’s medicines.
“The minor child was only at home, she felt she had to take the pill because of what her mother told her,” Clayton said.
He also suggested that the minor, due to the fact that he is 18 years old, is not able to consciously decide to have an abortion.
“This child for me who took the pill is a child and I don’t think she can formulate the necessary intention to really know what is happening,” he said.
The minor had planned a party to open, Clayton told the lawyerS
A group against abortions praises the indictments
Louisiana the right to life celebrates the accusation of a statement by criticizing your doctor in New York for sending abortion pills.
“Carpenter is not licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana,” said Communication Director Sarah Zagorski. “Louisiana, the right to life applauds to Clayton to take on an initiative to protect women and babies of Louisiana from the devastating effects of forced abortion and the abortion industry.”
The Louisiana abortion fund called the accusation an effort from “forced birth extremists” to undermine telemedicine abortions and cause a “freezing effect” among suppliers wishing to send abortion pills to countries with prohibitions. Two other leading reproductive rights groups across the country, Lift Louisiana and Plancenned Parentood Gulf Coast, did not immediately release statements on Friday.
Diaz-Velo, with IF/when/how, the accusations and Louisiana’s accusation acts against telemedicine abortion are intended to “make people fear penalty penalties to help others have access to abortion care.”
She said that people who are afraid of being criminalized for use or receiving abortion medicines should know that there is help for them.
Anti -abortion groups have raised attacks on abortion drugs, which drastically suggests the impact of bans on government abortion in recent years. A study last year found that thousands of women were still receiving abortions in Louisiana. He showed that more patients had access to abortion in Louisiana in 2023 than in 2020 before the ban came into force and in the first six months of 2024, 60% of abortions in the country were through telemedicineS
In the interview, Talk Louisiana, Clayton described abortion medicines-which can be used for a wide range of routine and life-saving pregnancy care-poison. He said he was still planning to look for an order for a carpenter, although New York’s laws are protecting doctors who send abortion abortion medicines to countries where abortions are illegal.
“You can’t hide behind the borders of New York and ship pills here to have abortions in Louisiana,” he said.
Legal laws are contested
The case will test the laws adopted in a series of countries led by Democrats who protect healthcare suppliers and others who help patients outside abortion from civil and criminal consequences. At least 18 states Have such book laws, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
New York government officials have defended the State Shield Act. New York Governor Katie Hochul said her country would not comply with an extradition request.
“We will remain a safe port”, ” She posts on xS
New York Prosecutor James James has released a statement in support of Carpenter and in defense of telemedicine abortion.
“This cowardly experience from Louisiana to arm the law against external suppliers is unfair and non -American,” James said. “We will not allow bad participants to undermine our suppliers’ ability to provide critical care. Medicine abortions are safe, effective and necessary, and New York will ensure that it remains available to all Americans who need it. “
An NPR investigation found that Louisiana health officials told employees to stop promoting Covid, Flu and MPOX vaccines by conducting influenza events or otherwise encouraging the public to receive these vaccines.
Carpenter is already facing a texas trial for prescribing a woman’s abortion pills near DallasS It was cited as co-medical director and founder of the Telemedicine abortion coalition (ACT), which works to promote access to abortion drugs in the US and is behind the laws of Shield, the statement said.
“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 Through This Country,” ACT en Proven Safe and Effect for Inducing Abortions For Decades have been “an essential part of women’s health.”
Shield laws make it easy 9 700 abortions per month In the United States last year, according to data collected by the Family Planning Society.
“It is no secret that the United States has a history of violence and harassment against abortion suppliers, and these state -sponsored efforts to pursue a doctor providing safe and effective care must alert everyone,” Act says.