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New York doctor indicted in Louisiana over alleged abortion pill prescription

A box of Mifepristone tablets
Louisiana is the first state with a law to reclassify both the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol as ‘controlled dangerous substances’. Photograph: Natalie Behring/The Guardian

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 the mother of a minor who was allegedly provided with the abortion pill, according to a New Orleans public radio station. All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.

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