Louisiana is investigating a New York doctor for accusations that she sent abortion pills to the state, said Liz Murrill, state prosecutor. The case marks the second investigation into the doctor, Margaret Carpenter, which Louisiana had charged earlier this year for having allegedly prescribed aborting pills via the TV to a Louisiana resident.
“The young woman was 20 weeks pregnant,” said Murrill. “She and her boyfriend after giving birth took the baby, wrapped him in a towel and threw him into a trash can.”
Murrill said the Shreveport police, where abortion would have taken place, was investigating the incident alongside his office. A spokesperson for the Murrill office did not immediately respond to a request for comment or documentation of the case.
The couple finally went to the hospital, according to Murrill. Medical experts are largely suitable that it is prudent to “self-generate” your own abortion using pills during the first trimester of pregnancy. However, these pills can also safely induce an abortion during the second trimester of pregnancy. Doctors without borders offer guidelines On how to use abortion pills for 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Murrill made the comments by speaking during a legislative hearing of the State concerning a bill which would allow people to pursue an individual or an entity which “performs, causes or facilitates considerably” an abortion. Louisiana already prohibits practically all abortions.
“This bill provides for civil liability and allows another mechanism – it is another tool in the toolbox for people who are injured by someone who intends to rape our laws,” said Murrill.
Carpenter has so far avoided making public statements in the case. An organization she co-founded, abortion Coalition for Telemedecine, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
“Make no mistake, since Roe V Wade was canceled, we attended a disturbing interference scheme with women's rights,” the organization said in a statement from the Louisiana’s first case against Carpenter Broke. “It is not a secret for anyone that the United States has history of violence and harassment against abortion suppliers, and this effort sponsored by the State to continue a doctor offering safe and effective care should alarm everyone.”
Jeff Landry, a republican governor of Louisiana, signed an extradition mandate for Carpenter, but she was not extradited to Louisiana and the Democratic Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, promised never to sign an extradition order for her. New York is one of the blue states which, following the fall of Roe V Wade, promulgated “shield laws”, which keep the abortion suppliers as Carpenter against the prosecution outside the state and civil proceedings. In the spring of 2024, these shield laws helped facilitate more than 7,700 monthly abortions in states with prohibitions for total or six -week abortions, according to #Wecount, a research project for the Society of Family Planning.
Texas also continued Carpenter for having pretended to send abortion pills to the state, in defiance of his abortion bans, but a New York clerk rejected a Request from Texas to force Carpenter to pay a fine. Legal analysts expect the issue to end before the United States Supreme Court.
