Last Friday, a Louisiana grand jury unanimously indicted New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter on felony charges of criminal abortion after she illegally provided abortion pills across state lines to a Louisiana minor. The young girl ended up in the local emergency room after dangerous complications developed.
Operation Rescue obtained a copy of the indictment which lists felony charges for both Carpenter and her company, Nightingale Medical.
Operation Rescue has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the “virtual back-alley” of chemical abortions, especially in its most recent Annual Survey, which showed that virtual pill suppliers like Carpenter have tripled in number.
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An arrest warrant has been issued for Carpenter, who is already facing a civil lawsuit in Texas for the same illegal act: providing abortions pills through the mail in a state where preborn persons are legally protected. The woman in the Texas case also ended up in the emergency room due to severe bleeding. Carpenter has no license to practice medicine in either state.
The minor’s mother was also indicted. According to District Attorney Tony Clayton, the mother procured the pills from Carpenter through nothing more than an online survey. After the girl ingested the pills, her mother apparently left her alone. No one was with the girl when she called 911.
“A mother orders dangerous abortion-inducing drugs, makes her underage daughter take them, and then just leaves her alone to deal with the aftermath?” asked Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, “That sounds more like coercion than care, which has become all too easy with the FDA’s lax regulation of mifepristone and the wild expansion of virtual pill peddlers like Carpenter looking to make a quick buck.”
Not only has Carpenter avoided arrest so far, New York Governor Kathy Hochul publicly vowed to protect Carpenter from extradition. Hochul called abortions “life-saving” even after a medication abortion – prescribed by Carpenter without any sort of examination – landed this young girl in the emergency room.
“This is not medicine,” said Newman, “and Governor Hochul isn’t protecting ‘reproductive care.’ She’s harboring a criminal abortionist whose reckless disregard of state laws injured a patient. Hochul says she’s protecting her precious doctors. Who was protecting that little girl?”
Since the FDA’s flippant removal of nearly all regulations regarding mifepristone, which flung open the door for unchecked virtual abortions, 22 states have created shield laws or executive orders to protect abortionists trying to cash in on this lucrative new trend – including New York.
Though Governor Hochul already signed a bill protecting abortionists from extradition in June 2022, she signed another bill on Monday, just three days after Carpenter’s indictment, expanding those unethical protections. Specifically, the bill allows abortionists to request pharmacies only print the name of their abortion businesses on prescription labels, excluding the doctors’ personal names.
“This legislation speaks volumes about the lengths to which pro-abortion states will go, protecting the privileged class of ‘abortionist’ while throwing the patient aside” added Newman. “And nothing screams ‘back-alley abortionist’ more loudly than hiding the name of these virtual suppliers from their own patients,” added Newman.
Operation Rescue will follow this case very closely over the next few months, as well as the case in Texas. Both offer a chance to challenge dangerous shield laws that are sacrificing patient care and safety for the protection of privileged criminals.
Moreover, these shield laws also appear to be in direct violation of the United States Constitution. The Extradition Clause of the Constitution (Article IV Section 2) clearly dictates how interstate extradition must be handled:
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
“In short,” said Newman, “the United States Constitution does not seem to allow a state to simply not cooperate with an extradition request. We are praying that these cases move swiftly towards the Supreme Court, where shield laws can be struck down for good and abortionists like Carpenter, who knowingly commit felonies to kill preborn children, can be sent to prison, where they belong.”
LifeNews Note: This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Project Coordinator for Operation Rescue.”
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