Maggie Carpenter Indicted: Colleague of Doctor Charged With 'Criminal Abortion' Speaks Out
glamour.compills by mail, and providers like Dr. Maggie Carpenter won’t be intimidated into stopping.That’s the message Julie F. Kay, an internationally recognized women’s human rights attorney, wants to share in the wake of against Carpenter, her colleague and co-founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.In what appears to be the first such case, Carpenter, a family medicine doctor from New Paltz, New York, was indicted on criminal charges late last week by a grand jury in Louisiana.
Carpenter, the indictment claims, prescribed abortion pills to the mother of a pregnant minor via an online appointment. Carpenter, Carpenter’s practice Nightingale Medical PC, and the girl’s mother (who ) were all charged with “criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.” Abortion is illegal in with few exceptions, that don’t even .Carpenter, who with Kay and another physician Dr.
Linda Prine, founded the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine ( or ACT), was also sued in last year by the state of Texas for providing pills by mail.New York Gov.
Kathy Hochul said on X this week that she “will not comply with an extradition request” for Dr. Carpenter. New York state has a shield law that protects any physician in the state from prosecution if they prescribe pills to patients in a state where the procedure is restricted.
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