New York Doctor Indicted for Prescribing Abortion Pill to Louisiana Resident

Abortion is almost entirely illegal in Louisiana, with exceptions for cases involving a substantial threat to the mother’s life or a fatal fetal anomaly.
New York Doctor Indicted for Prescribing Abortion Pill to Louisiana Resident
Mifepristone tablets in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo
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A Louisiana grand jury indicted a doctor from New York on Jan. 31 for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a minor in Louisiana, where abortion is almost completely illegal.

Dr. Margaret Carpenter, her company Nightingale Medical, PC, and the teen’s mother were indicted by a West Baton Rouge Parish grand jury on charges of criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, according to multiple reports. The teenager’s name and age have not been disclosed.