Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a new law allowing New York doctors to print their health care practice name, rather than their own, on abortion pill bottles. This comes just days after Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a New York physician, was indicted in Louisiana for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a resident there.
The indictment, which may challenge New York’s legal protections for telehealth prescribers, follows the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade. Hochul pledged not to extradite Carpenter, emphasizing her commitment to safeguarding reproductive health providers.
Abortion pills now account for nearly two-thirds of U.S. abortions and remain a focal point of legal and political disputes across the country.
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