Albany, NY (AP) – New York rejected a request from Louisiana on Thursday to deliver a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in the deep southern state, which sets up a potential test of laws Those doctors protect those prescribing that prescribe that prescribing medicines for states with prohibited.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said she will not honor Louisiana's request to arrest and the doctor will send to Louisiana after being accused of violating the strict anti-abortion law of the southern state.
“I will not sign an extradition order that comes from the governor of Louisiana,” Hochul said at a press conference in Manhattan. “Not now, never.”
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She also said that she had sent a notification to the police in New York who instructed them not to work with Buitenstaat Warrants for such charges.
The case against Dr. Maggie Carpenter, in New York, seems to be the first case of criminal prosecution against a doctor who is accused of prescribing abortion pills to another state.
Pills have become the most common method of abortion in the US and are in the epicenter of political and legal fights on abortic access after the destruction of the American Supreme Court of Roe v. Wade.
The confrontation between New York and Louisiana about Carpenter is expected to result in a lawsuit that could test the so-called Shield law of New York that offers legal protection to doctors who prescribe abortion medication to conservative states where abortions are prohibited or otherwise limited. Other democratically controlled states have similar shield laws.
Public Prosecutors in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, charged carpenter for accusation that she has violated the state's near-to-total abortion, as a result of which doctors have been convicted of performing abortions, including one with pills, to prison up to 15 years to be convicted.
The authorities of Louisiana said that the girl who received the pills experienced a medical emergency and had to be transported to the hospital. The girl's mother was also charged and submitted to the police.
In a statement recorded on Thursday, Republican Louisiana Gov. said Jeff Landry: “There is only one correct answer in this situation, and it is that the doctor must be confronted with extradition to Louisiana, where she can stand and justice will be served.”
The office of Landry did not immediately return an e -mail request to comment after Hochul refused the extradition request.
Timmerman was also charged at the end of last year by the attorney general of Texas under comparable accusations. That case did not include criminal prosecution.
