Fox News: New York doctor indicted for allegedly prescribing abortion pill to patient via telemedicine in Louisiana

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New York doctor indicted for allegedly prescribing abortion pill to patient via telemedicine in Louisiana

A female New York doctor was recently indicted on felony charges for allegedly prescribing abortion medication to a patient via telemedicine in Louisiana.......                    ...                        ...A female New York doctor will be prosecuted for allegedly prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Dr. Margaret Carpenter was indicted in Louisiana Friday after allegedly using telemedicine to prescribe You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to a patient. ......Carpenter, her company and an associate were charged with felony criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, according to The Associated Press.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......It is not the first time Carpenter faced accusations of unlawful abortions.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login against her in December, claiming she sent abortion pills to the state, the AP reported. She was not charged.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login released a statement after a grand jury at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge in Louisiana made the decision, showing support for the doctor and calling the act "providing basic health care."......"We always knew that overturning Roe v. Wade wasn't the end of the road for anti-abortion politicians," Hochul wrote. "That's why I worked with the Legislature to pass nation-leading laws to protect providers and patients. It's more critical than ever for states to step up and protect reproductive freedom — and I'll never back down from this fight."......New York Attorney General Letitia James also released a statement after the indictment, echoing the idea that abortion care should be considered healthcare.......James called the criminalization of abortion care a "direct and brazen attack on Americans' bodily autonomy and their right to reproductive freedom."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"This cowardly attempt out of Louisiana to weaponize the law against out-of-state providers is unjust and un-American," James wrote in the statement. "We will not allow bad actors to undermine our providers' ability to deliver critical care. Medication abortion is safe, effective, and necessary, and New York will ensure that it remains available to all Americans who need it."......Louisiana prohibits the use of telemedicine to provide medication for abortions.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, recently sworn in as Department of Homeland Security secretary, has historically warned against telemedicine abortions, citing concerns over informed decisions......."For years and years, we've heard liberals talk about this decision on abortion being between a woman and her doctor," Noem said in 2021, while serving as governor of South Dakota. "Now they're changing their complete argument to now this can be a decision between a woman and virtually any stranger over the phone – that she doesn't even have to prove it's a doctor ... or an informed decision."......Louisiana imposes more restrictions on abortion providers than almost any other state, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.......This appears to be the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 that a doctor was charged criminally for sending abortion pills to another state, according to the AP....

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