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On Monday, New York Governor Cathy Hochol signed a draft law to protect the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after the doctor accused the state of prescribing miscarriages to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.
The new law, which entered immediately, allows doctors to request leaving their names from abortion pills and inserting the name of health care practices instead on pharmaceutical stickers.
The move came after a major jury in the West Patton Roji diocese in Los Angeles, Dr. Margaret Carpenter and her company on Friday for criminal abortion through drugs that stimulate abortion, is a felony.
The case seems to be the first example of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another country, at least since the United States Supreme Court has canceled ROE V. Wade in 2022 with Dobbs V Health Organization. Jackson.
Hatcheul, a democracy, said last week that she “will not”, under any circumstances, “said, she signed a handover request to send a carpenter to Louisiana and said that the authorities in Louisiana discovered the name of the doctor because he was on the poster.
“After today, this will not happen,” the governor said in the signing of a draft law on Monday.
When Louisiana tried to arrest a doctor in New York because of her work, our laws protected her from the prosecution. But they did not protect its privacy.
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She also accused the mother of the pregnant girl
The girl’s mother, who was also accused, delivered herself to the police on Friday. It was not publicly determined to protect the identity of the minor.
Prosecutors in Louisiana said that the girl witnessed a medical emergency after taking the medicine and had to be transferred to the hospital. It is not clear to what extent it was in her pregnancy.
While responding to the emergency, a police officer learned of the pill and under more investigations, it was found that the doctor in New York State had provided drugs and the release of the results they reached to the Clayton office.
Provincial lawyer, Tony Clayton, the prosecutor in the Louisiana case, said that the arrest warrant for carpeting “worldwide” and that it may face arrest in states with the laws to combat abortion.
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Louisiana has a semi -Total abortion ban. Doctors are facing miscarriages, including those that have birth control pills, up to 15 years in prison, and $ 200,000 in fines and loss of their medical license.
Hotchoul said it would press for another legislation this year that will require pharmacists to adhere to the doctors’ requests that their name be left from a prescription label.
A lawsuit was filed against Carpetter by Texas Prosecutor for claims to send abortion pills to Texas, although this case did not involve criminal charges.
Birth control pills have become the most common way to miscarriage in the United States and are at the center of various political and legal battles in a sane Perception of medicines, according to a report issued by the Guttmacher Institute, a group of invitation to abortion rights.
New York Law relates to drugs such as MivePristone and Misoprostol, and it is allowed to provide prescriptions under the name of medical practice, instead of the individual name of the doctor.
In 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a case filed by a Christian group to combat abortion, which targeted the regulatory procedures for regulating the FDA that allowed abortion of medicines at up to 10 weeks of pregnancy instead of seven, in addition to enabling mail delivery from drugs without a woman who needs to see A doctor personally.
Resolution 9-0 did not judge the advantages of the arguments; Instead, he concluded that the plaintiffs lack the legal standing of a prosecution.
Reproductive rights groups criticized Louisiana’s indictment.
“We cannot continue to allow forced birth extremists to intervene with our ability to reach the necessary health care,” Louisiana Fund in Louisiana said in a statement. “The extremists hope that this condition will cause a chilling effect, which increases the hands of doctors who have entered the right to take care of their patients.”
