The case against Dr. Margaret Carpenter appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of ...

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.

A red state has taken direct aim at a New York law that protects residents who help abortion seekers elsewhere in the country ...

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

Carpenter was previously sued by the attorney general of Texas for allegations of sending abortion pills there, though that case did not involve criminal charges. After the indictment, Hochul ...

Jeff Landry announced the extradition warrant for New Paltz-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter ... which accuse Carpenter of prescribing abortion medication to a minor, who took the pill and ended ...

Dr. Margaret Carpenter is an abortion provider and co-founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, a group that helps doctors navigate legal and regulatory barriers to provide abortion ...

The anti-abortion movement in the United States has set its sights on a new target: doctors sending pills across state lines ...

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 ...

So what are shield laws exactly, and what does the future hold for them? TIME spoke to experts to find out.

Kathy Hochul is doubling down on her refusal to extradite a Hudson Valley doctor charged with violating Louisiana’s abortion laws ... an extradition order for Ulster County-based Dr. Margaret ...

New York enacted its telehealth abortion shield law in 2023, one year after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The law bans local law enforcement from sharing information with other states and prohibits the ...