New York’s shield law was designed to protect providers mailing medication abortion pills out of state. But a New York ...

New York Gov Kathy Hochul says she will reject the extradition request by Louisiana for a New York doctor charged with ...

Louisiana’s attorney general is seeking to extradite a New York doctor who prescribed and sent abortion medication through ...

"Prescribing safe abortion medication is legal under the laws of our state and our reproductive health laws." — Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Margaret Carpenter, based in New Paltz, New York, has been indicted for prescribing abortion pills to a person in Louisiana — where nearly all abortions are illegal, even in cases of rape or incest.

Wade, tens of thousands of people in states with abortion bans have continued to access the procedure through telehealth. But ...

Jeff Landry announced the extradition warrant for New Paltz-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter. Landry reiterated the charges by Louisiana law enforcement, which accuse Carpenter of prescribing abortion ...

On January 31, a West Baton Rouge Parish grand jury unanimously indicted Margaret Carpenter, a family medicine physician, along with her prescribing practice and a Louisiana mother, for providing ...

Dr Margaret Carpenter allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion pills to the minor's mother in Louisiana, where abortion is illegal in nearly all cases. On Tuesday, governor Jeff Laundry posted a ...

Kathy Hochul said Thursday she will not sign. The physician, Dr. Margaret Carpenter, was charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony in Louisiana. She had been ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill signed an extradition form Wednesday for Dr. Margaret Carpenter, less than two weeks after a grand jury indicted the physician for prescribing and sending ...

Dr. Margaret Carpenter. NBC News obtained a copy of the extradition warrant, which Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed Tuesday. “There’s only one right answer in this situation, and it is that ...