The New York government Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a proposal for the Law on the Protection of Doctors’ identity to prescribe abortion medication, for days after the doctor was accused of prescribing a miscarriage for pregnant women in Louisiani.
The new law, which entered into force, enables doctors to ask their names to remain a bottle with abortion tablets and instead list their health practice on the stickers of medicines.
This move came after a large jury in West Baton Rouge, La.
The case seems to be the first case of a criminal complaint against a doctor accused of sending an abortion pill to another country, at least since the US Supreme Court abolished Roe against Wade 2022 with Dobbs against Jackson.
Hochul, Democrat, said last week that “never, under any conditions”, she would not sign a request for extradition to send a carpenter in Louisian and said that the authorities in Louisiana had discovered the name of a doctor because it was on medication label.
“After today, that will no longer happen,” Governor said on signing the law on Monday.
When Louisiana tried to arrest a New York doctor for doing her job, our laws protected her from criminal persecution. But they did not protect her privacy.
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The mother of a pregnant woman also accused
The mother of a girl, who was also charged, handed over to the police on Friday. Not publicly identified to protect the identity of the minor.
Prosecutors in Louisiani said the girl had a medical ambulance after she had taken medication and had to be transported to the hospital. It is not clear how much she was in pregnancy.
While responding to emergencies, the police officer learned of the pills and in the further investigation he found that a doctor in New York had delivered drugs and handed over his findings at the Clayton office.
District State Attorney Tony Clayton, Prosecutor in Louisiana case, said he was an arrest warrant for Carpenter’s “across the country” and could face arrest in countries with laws against abortion.
I Supreme Court Judges have heard arguments in a case that could limit access to the most commonly used drug with Miferistone abortion. Of the pandemic, more doctors have issued a drug to telemedicine, but the activists against abortion want to stop it.
Louisiana has an almost total ban on abortion. Doctors convicted of miscarriage, including those with tablets, up to 15 years in prison, $ 200,000 a US penalty and loss of their medical license.
Hochul said she would be advocated this year for another legislation that would require the pharmacies to comply with the doctor’s request to remain with their name from the prescription label.
Carpenter was previously sued by a Texas lawyer for charges of sending a miscarriage pill in Texas, although the case did not include criminal charges.
The tablets have become the most common method of abortion in the US and are at the heart of different political and legal battles in the state patchwork rules that regulate abortion from the decision 2022. About 63 percent of all known abortions in the USA in 2023 were categorized as abortion of drugs, according to a report of the Gutttmacher Institute, a group of advocate of abortion rights.
The New York Law refers to medicines such as Miferiston and Misoprostol, and allows the prescriptions to be submitted under the name of medical practice, not in the name of an individual doctor.
In 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a case submitted by a Christian group against abortion that targets FDA regulatory actions that enabled abortions in medicines to be given up to up to 10 weeks of pregnancy instead of seven, as well as allowing mail to be delivered without a woman who The doctor should be seen in person.
Decision 9-0 did not judge the basis of arguments; Instead, it concluded that prosecutors lacked a legal position for the lawsuit.
Reproductive rights groups criticized Louisiana indictment.
“We cannot continue to allow forced extremists to interfere with our ability to access the necessary health care,” Louisiana Fund for abortion said. “Extremists hope that this case will cause a cold effect, a further connection of doctors who have laid the oath to care for their patients.”
