Grand jurors in West Baton Rouge Parish have indicted Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a New York abortionist, and her company, Nightingale Medical, PC, for prescribing an abortion pill online to a minor teenage girl in Port Allen, Louisiana.

Carpenter is co-director of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT). She is licensed to practice medicine in New York but not in Louisiana or Texas.

District Attorney Tony Clayton said a warrant was issued for the arrest of Carpenter. “The daughter wanted the pregnancy and had a reveal party planned,” the district attorney said, according to The Advocate.

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“The young child was told by the mother that she had to take the pill or else. The child took the pill was home alone… felt something happening to her body and began hemorrhaging, and the baby began to come out,” Chris Nakamoto reported.

“It’s the law of Louisiana. Gov. Landry, AG Liz Murrill, and our legislature has seen fit that abortions are illegal in this state,” Clayton said. “Shipping an abortion pill from another state is equivalent to me of shipping fentanyl or any other type drug over here that ends up in the mouths and stomachs of our minor kids.”

In 2023, New York passed a telemedicine abortion shield law, which the New York Times reports has been adopted in eight states. They have “become a significant avenue for providing access to abortion for women in states with bans without requiring them to leave their state,” according to Pam Belluck and Emily Cochrane.

“We will not allow people to weaponize the law and undermine our providers’ ability to deliver critical care,” said Letitia James, New York Attorney General.

Louisiana Attorney General Murrill tweeted back

Respectfully, I don’t think you should be the one to talk about “weaponizing the law.” Since when is a coerced abortion healthcare?

She added

“I have said it before and I will say it again: We will hold individuals accountable for breaking the law.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Carpenter in December. “In this case, an out-of-state doctor violated the law and caused serious harm to this patient. This doctor prescribed abortion-inducing drugs — unauthorized, over telemedicine — causing her patient to end up in the hospital with serious complications,” said Mr. Paxton.

Texas law requires doctors who treat residents to have a state medical license and bans physicians or medical suppliers from “providing any abortion-inducing drugs by courier, delivery, or mail service,” said the attorney general’s office.

“Unlike Friday’s indictment in Louisiana, Carpenter faces no prison time if she’s found to have violated Texas’s civil statute,” according to The Washington Post’s Jonathan Edwards.

In a video posted on X, New York pro-abortion Gov. Kathy Hochul said, “I will never, under any circumstances, turn this doctor over to the state of Louisiana under any extradition request.”

Clayton said he can’t prosecute Carpenter if New York Hochul “won’t extradite her but he encouraged the doctor to come to West Baton Rouge parish of her own volition to defend herself.

“Dr. Carpenter has a date with Louisiana justice,” he said, “and she ought to fulfill it.”

Sarah Zagorski, Communications Director for Louisiana Right to Life, said

“Louisiana Right to Life is deeply grieved by the harm Dr. Carpenter’s actions caused in this young girl’s life and the death of her unborn baby. It appears evident that the courageous minor had every intent of raising her baby as she had a reveal party planned. Now, instead of celebrating birthdays with her child, she’s left with the grief from the death of her baby and the continued reminder of the abuse she experienced throughout the inevitably upcoming court process.”

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.

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