New York governor Kathy Hochul, signed a bill to protect the identities of doctors who recipe drugs in abortion, days after a doctor in the state was accused of prescribing abortive pills to a minor pregnant in Louisiana .
The new law, which came into effect immediately, allows doctors to request that their names be left of abortive pills bottles and, instead, list the name of their medical care practices in medication labels.
The measure occurred after a large jury in the parish of West Baton Rouge, Louisian serious.
The case seems to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the United States Supreme Court revoked Roe V. Wade in 2022 with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Hochul, a Democrat, said last week that “never, under any circumstance” would sign an extradition request to send Carpenter to Louisiana and said that the authorities in Louisiana discovered the doctor’s name because he was on the medication label.
“After today, that will no longer happen,” said the governor in the signing of the bill on Monday.
When Louisiana tried to arrest a New York doctor for doing her job, our laws protected her from prosecution. But they did not protect their privacy.
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Mother as a pregnant girl also accused
The girl’s mother, who was also accused, gave himself to the police on Friday. It has not been publicly identified to protect the identity of the child.
Prosecutors in Louisiana said the girl experienced a medical emergency after taking the medication and had to be transported to the hospital. It is not clear how advanced he was in his pregnancy.
While responding to the emergency, a police officer learned about the pills and a later investigation discovered that a doctor in the state of New York had provided the drugs and delivered his findings to the Clayton office.
The District prosecutor Tony Clayton, the prosecutor in the case of Louisiana, said that the arrest warrant for Carpenter is “nationally” and that he could face the arrest in the states with laws against abortion.
The Judges of the US Supreme Court. UU. They heard arguments in a case that could limit access to the mifepristone of commonly used abortion medicines. From the pandemic, more doctors have dispensed the medication through telemedicine, but abortion activists want that to stop.
Louisiana has an almost total abortion prohibition. Doctors convicted of carrying out abortions, including pills, face up to 15 years in prison, $ 200,000 in fines and the loss of their medical license.
Hochul said he would press for another legislation this year that will require pharmacists to adhere to doctors’ requests that his name is left out of a recipe label.
Carpenter was previously sued by Texas Attorney General for accusations of sending abortion pills to Texas, although that case did not involve criminal charges.
The pills have become the most common method of abortion in the United States and are in the center of several political and legal battles in the mosaic of state rules per state that govern abortion from the decision of 2022. around 63 by One hundred of all known abortions in the US. In 2023 they were classified as abortions of medicines, according to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, a group of defense of abortion rights.
The New York Law refers to drugs such as Mifepristona and Misoprostol, and allows recipes to be presented under the name of a medical practice, instead of the individual name of a doctor.
In 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a case presented by a Christian group against abortion that went to the regulatory actions of the FDA that allowed the abortions of medications to be granted to 10 weeks of pregnancy instead of seven, in addition, in addition to allow the mail supply of the delivery of the mail of drugs without a woman who needs to see a doctor in person.
The 9-0 decision did not rule on the merits of the arguments; Rather, he concluded that the plaintiffs lacked legal position to sue.
Reproductive rights groups have criticized Louisiana’s accusation.
“We cannot continue allowing forced birth extremists to interfere with our ability to access the necessary medical care,” said Louisiana’s abortion fund in a statement. “Extremists expect this case to cause a chilling effect, even more linking the hands of doctors who made an oath to take care of their patients.”
