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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sara Cline and Geoff Mulvihill

New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana

Abortion-New York Doctor-Indicted - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter; her company, Nightingale Medical, PC; and a third person. All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.

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