‘Careful about her travel plans’: Louisiana formally seeks extradition of doctor for prescribing abortion pills despite NY governor saying ‘no way in hell’ it will happen

Left: New York State Governor, Kathy Hochul speaks on stage during The 2022 Concordia Annual Summit - Day 2 at Sheraton New York on September 20, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images for Concordia Summit). Right: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill during an April 5, 2024, interview with KLFY (YouTube).

Left: New York State Governor, Kathy Hochul speaks on stage during The 2022 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 2 at Sheraton New York on September 20, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images for Concordia Summit). Right: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill during an April 5, 2024, interview with KLFY (YouTube).

Louisiana’s top law enforcement officials announced that they are seeking the extradition of a New York doctor for prescribing and mailing abortion pills to the mother of a pregnant minor in the Pelican State, where the procedure is prohibited in nearly all circumstances.

Dr. Margaret D. Carpenter and her practice, Nightingale Medical, were named in a grand jury indictment filed in January by West Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Tony Clayton, according to court documents reviewed by Law&Crime. Carpenter is based in New Paltz, located some 80 miles north of New York City.

Carpenter, the one-page indictment says, “on or about April 5, 2024, did knowingly cause an abortion to occur by means of delivering, dispensing, distributing, or providing a pregnant [woman] with an abortion-inducing drug,” the one-page indictment says. Doing so was “[c]ontrary to the law of the State of Louisiana and against the peace and dignity of the same,” the indictment adds.

The minor’s mother, whose name has not been released to protect the identity of the child, has also been indicted on felony charges in connection to the event.

While all states typically enforce extradition agreements, it does not appear that will be the case when states with abortion bans enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade find themselves facing of against states that do allow the procedure.

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