Louisiana issues a warrant to arrest California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills

Red stick, the. – Louisiana is continuing a criminal case against another doctor outside the state accused of having sent abortion pills to a state patient, revealed court documents tabled this month.

An arrest warrant against a California doctor is a rare accusation of rape one of the state abortion bans that took effect since the United States Supreme Court canceled ROE v. Wade in 2022 and authorized the application.

It represents an additional front in an increasing legal battle between liberal and conservative states on the prescription of drug abortion drugs and sending them to patients.

The pills are the most common way that abortions are accessible in the United States and are a major reason which, despite prohibitions, the number of abortion increased last year, according to a report.

Louisiana declared in a judicial case deposited on September 19 that she had issued a mandate for a Californian doctor who, according to him, provided pills to a Louisiana in 2023.

The woman, Rosalie Markezich, and the general of the state prosecutor, seek to be part of a trial that seeks to order drug regulators to negotiate mifepristone tele -health, one of the two drugs usually used in combination for abortions by drugs.

In the judicial files, Markezich says that his boyfriend at the time used his email address to order drugs to Dr Remy Coeytaux, doctor of California, and sent her $ 150, which she transmitted to Coeytals. She said she had no other contact with the doctor.

She said that she did not want to take the pills but felt forced and said in the file that “the trauma of my chemical abortion always haunts me” and that it would not have happened if the prescriptions of television of the drug were prohibited.

The accusation is based on a position taken by anti-abortion groups: that allow abortion pills to be prescribed by phone or video call and filled by mail opens the door to women forced to take them.

“Rosalie courageously represents many women victims of illegal, immoral and contrary to the ethics of these drug traffickers,” said the prosecutor general of Louisiana, Liz Murrill, in a press release.

Murrill’s office did not immediately answer questions about the accusations that coeytal is faced, or when the mandate was issued. But under the prohibition of the State on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, doctors sentenced for abortion for 15 years in prison and $ 200,000 in fines.

Coeytals is also the target of a legal action filed in July before the Federal Court by a Texas man who declared that the doctor illegally provided his girlfriend with abortion pills.

Coeytals did not immediately respond to emails or a telephone message.

The combination of a Criminal case in Louisiana and a Civil affair in Texas on abortion pills also takes place surrounding a doctor from New York, Margaret Carpenter. The New York authorities refuse to extradite Dr. Carpenter in Louisiana or to enforce the Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton The civil judgment of $ 100,000 against her.

In the Louisiana case, officials said that a mother of a pregnant minor had asked the drug online abortion and ordered her daughter to take them. The mother was arrested, pleaded not guilty and was released on bail.

New York officials are citing a law seeking to protect medical providers who prescribe drug drugs to patients with abortion states – or when such prescriptions for the law violate the law.

New York and California are among the eight states that have protective laws with such provisions, according to a statement by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.

Legal deposits which revealed that the accusation of Louisiana against Coeytals was part of an effort for Louisiana, as well as Florida and Texas, to join a trial lodged last year by the Prosecutors General Republican for Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to cancel the federal approvals of Mifepristone.

This year, Louisiana and Texas have adopted laws to target suppliers of abortion pills outside the state.

Louisiana’s law allows patients who receive abortions on prosecution and other suppliers. The law of Texas goes further and allows anyone to pursue those who prescribe such pills in the state.

The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said they were carrying out a complete safety and efficiency of Miffepristone.

The abortion of drugs has been available in the United States since 2000, when Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone.

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Mulvihill reported Cherry Hill, New Jersey.