A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in a state with one of the strictest abortion bans.

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first time an abortion doctor has been criminally charged since Roe v. Wade was ov

The case is one of the first direct challenges to shield laws enacted in blue states that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills to out-of-state patients.

A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in Louisiana for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there, television station WAFB reported on Friday.

A New York doctor has been indicted for allegedly sending abortion pills to a teenager in Louisiana, in what could be the first time a provider has faced criminal charges for mailing the medication since the rollback of abortion rights in the US.

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 in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.