The case against Dr. Margaret Carpenter appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a patient in another state.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejects request from Louisiana AG Liz Murrill to extradite a New York doctor who allegedly prescribed and mailed an abortion pill to a Louisiana mother.

The laws are intended to preserve abortion access by protecting multiple classes of people—abortion providers practicing in states where abortion is legal, as well as patients a

The case could lead to a battle in federal court over whether states that support abortion rights can protect doctors who provide abortion services.

New York will not honor a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who prescribed abortion medication, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke out after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed an extradition warrant for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill tweeted that her office has now signed off on the extradition request to Landry and awaits his approval.

I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State’s shield law against the two conservative states’ abortion bans, which are among the strictest in the country.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is weighing her options on how to prosecute a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills for a coerced abortion.

Kathy Hochul has rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite Dr. Maggie Carpenter, who was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in the state last month. "I will not be ...

We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel. "What constitutes a human right in one state is a capital crime in another.