A Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York physician for mailing abortion pills, marking the first cross-border criminal prosecution since Roe v. Wade's overturn. The case highlights the potential for interstate conflicts over abortion and raises questions about the extent of states' authority in regulating abortion access.
The cross-border abortion wars escalated Friday, when a Louisiana grand jury indicted Margaret Carpenter, a physician from New York, for violating the state’sfiled a civil enforcement suit against the same physician for mailing pills into his state, Louisiana’s is the first cross-border criminal prosecution of its kind since the fall of.
Prosecutors have invoked the idea of abortion coercion to describe the details of the case to the press. They’ve charged Carpenter for mailing pills to a woman from Port Allen, Louisiana, who gave them to her teenage daughter. They allege that the abortion was coerced because, they claim, the mother did not consult with her daughter before ordering the pills and directed.
It’s not inevitable, though, that things will be this simple for New York or Carpenter. The current Supreme Court majority hasn’t been exactly shy about undoing long-standing precedent, especially when a culture-war issue is central to a case. And even if Carpenter prevails, the arrest warrant will loom over her anytime she leaves the state—not only in Louisiana, but in any other jurisdiction.
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