This is the first time that one state has been charging against a doctor in another state for prescribing drugs for abortion.
Criminal prosecution was brought to a New York doctor for prescribing online and provided the pill of abortion to a teenage girl in the state of Louisiana. USAwhere the abortions.
Margarer Carpenter and Nightingale Medical’s clinic are accused of criminal abortion through drugs, a felony, according to the office of the prosecutor of the Western Baton Rouge region.
This is the first time that one state has been charging accusations against a doctor in another state for prescribing drugs for abortion.
“I believe we are the first state, I do not know any other, who recites charges in the clinic and the doctor” since the end of June 2022, when the US Supreme Court abolished the federal protection of women’s right to abortion, she said at a radio station. By Baton Rouge is Tony Clayton, one of the prosecutors who have taken over the case.
“It is illegal to send pills to this state and it is illegal to force someone to abort,” Louisiana Liziana Murill’s general prosecutor said in a statement. “The persons who violate the law will be held accountable,” he said.
According to local media, Baton Baton Rouge has accused “criminal abortion” through drugs against Carpenter, her clinic, and against the mother of a minor girl who did the abortion.
New York Governor Katie Hocol stressed yesterday that the state would not comply with any request from Carpenter.
For her part, New York Prosecutor Lefsia James said: “The criminalization of the services linked to abortion is an immediate and eager attack on the right of Americans to have their bodies as they wish.”
More than half of the abortions in the US are performed by taking pills.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in June 2022 to abolish the federal protection of women’s right to abortion many conservative states have banned or put very strict restrictions on abortion. Today, an American at three aged 18 to 44 years live in one of these states.
But 18 states, including New York, have adopted doctors’ protection legislation because they helped women in other states to abort.
Luisiana also adopted legislation last year for Mifepristone, one of the two substances used for medicinal abortion, characterizing it controlled.
Mifepristone and Misoprostol have been approved by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to end its pregnancy first 10 weeks.
Urban prosecutions have been brought against Carpenter for corresponding reasons.
Source :Skai
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