{"id":32350,"date":"2025-02-04T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/new-york-gov-hochul-signs-law-protecting-abortion-pill-prescribers-after-doctor-indicted-in-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:34","slug":"new-york-gov-hochul-signs-law-protecting-abortion-pill-prescribers-after-doctor-indicted-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/new-york-gov-hochul-signs-law-protecting-abortion-pill-prescribers-after-doctor-indicted-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Gov. Hochul signs law protecting abortion pill prescribers after doctor indicted in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a>, a Democrat, signed a bill Monday aimed at shielding the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion drugs after a New York physician was indicted for prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.<\/p>\n

The new law, which is effective immediately, allows for doctors’ names to be omitted from abortion pill bottles and instead replaced with the name of their respective healthcare practices.<\/p>\n

This comes after a grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana,<\/a> indicted New York physician Margaret Carpenter, her company and an associate on Friday for allegedly using telemedicine to prescribe abortion pills to a girl.<\/p>\n

Hochul said she would not sign an extradition request to send Carpenter to Louisiana.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK DOCTOR INDICTED FOR ALLEGEDLY PRESCRIBING ABORTION PILL TO PATIENT VIA TELEMEDICINE IN LOUISIANA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Authorities in Louisiana learned the name of the doctor because it was listed on the medication label.<\/p>\n

“After today, that will no longer happen,” Hochul said at the bill signing.<\/p>\n

The case appears to be the first time a doctor has been charged for allegedly sending abortion pills to a patient in another state since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/a><\/p>\n

Louisiana prosecutors said the girl experienced a medical emergency after taking the medication and was transported to a hospital. The girl’s mother was also charged and turned herself in to police on Friday.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how far along the girl was in her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

TEXAS AG SUES NEW YORK DOCTOR WHO ALLEGEDLY PRESCRIBED ABORTION PILLS TO WOMAN IN LONE STAR STATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

District Attorney Tony Clayton, who is prosecuting the Louisiana case, said the arrest warrant for Carpenter is “nationwide” and that she could be arrested in GOP-led states with abortion restrictions.<\/a><\/p>\n

Physicians in Louisiana, which has a near-total abortion ban, could face up to 15 years in prison, $200,000 in fines and the loss of their medical license if they are convicted of performing abortions, including via medication.<\/p>\n

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Hochul said she would push for another piece of legislation<\/a> this year requiring pharmacists to follow doctors’ requests to leave their name off a prescription label.<\/p>\n

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Carpenter in December over allegations she sent abortion pills to a woman in the Lone Star State, though criminal charges were not brought in that case.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed a bill Monday aimed at shielding the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion drugs after a New York physician was indicted for prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana. The new law, which is effective immediately, allows for doctors’ names to be omitted from abortion … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}