An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor.
Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge unanimously issued an indictment against Margaret Carpenter; her company, Nightingale Medical, PC; and the minor’s mother. All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.
In addition to Carpenter, an arrest warrant was issued for the mother, who has not been publicly identified to protect the identity of the minor. District Attorney Tony Clayton told the Associated Press that the mother turned herself in to police on Friday.
The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal abortion mandate established by Roe v. Wade and returned power to the states to set their own abortion laws.
“We expect Dr. Carpenter to come to Louisiana and answer to these charges, and if 12 people think she’s innocent then, let it go,” Clayton said, referring to a jury of her peers in the criminal trial. […]
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