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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Newsom gives blunt answer when Louisiana asks to extradite a California doctor charged with aiding an abortion

California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor from the Golden State who was accused of mailing abortion pills to a woman.

Louisiana has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country and its Republican governor, Jeff Landry, wrote to Newsom’s administration earlier this week to “bring this California doctor to justice.”

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