Louisiana justification problems for the Californian doctor accused of having sent abortion pills | California
Louisiana has issued a mandate for a doctor based in California accused of having sent abortion pills to the red state, according to the judicial archives deposited earlier this month.
The mandate is part of an emerging effort of anti-abortion activists and red states to target abortion by telemedicine, which now represents an American abortion in four, and the abortion suppliers who send pills through the state lines. These providers operate from Blue States, such as California, which have promulgated “shield laws” which aim to protect suppliers of abortion against prosecution outside the state.
The mandate of 2024 for the doctor remains unanswered, according to documents, which were filed as part of Louisiana’s efforts to join a federal trial which aims to limit access to the common abortion pill. Louisiana prohibits practically all abortions.
In a declaration filed in court, a woman of Louisiana named Rosalie Markezich said that when she learned that she was pregnant in 2023, she decided to continue her pregnancy. But his boyfriend at the time used his email and postal address to order mifepristone and a second medication, misoprostol – which is generally used in American drug abortions – Dr Remy Coeytals.
In its own file, Louisiana does not explicitly name Coeytals as a target of its mandate, but says that it is for the arrest of “the doctor based in California whose boyfriend’s boyfriend ordered abortion drugs”.
During a road with her boyfriend, Markezich insisted that she wanted to keep pregnancy, according to her statement. He started screaming on him and, fearing his safety, Markezich decided to take the pills with the plan to throw them later. She could not vomit and, shortly after taking the pills, started to bleed.
“If the FDA needed a person in person with a doctor before providing the drugs, my boyfriend could never have obtained the drugs he made me take,” said Markezich. “I would also have told the doctor that I didn’t want to take them. And I would have told the doctor that I wanted to keep my baby. ”
A coeytal spokesperson refused to comment on Louisiana’s mandate, who was reported last week by abortion every day. In a statement, Liz Murrill, the Louisiana attorney general, suggested that she hoped that the Trump administration would restore rules that widen access to abortion by telemedicine.
“Rosalie courageously represent many women victims of illegal, immoral and contrary to the ethics of these drug traffickers,” said Murrill. A Murrill spokesperson did not immediately answer questions about the accusations that Coeytal could be confronted.
Coeytals has already been at the center of several anti-abortion legal deposits. In July, a man from Texas continued Coeytals for allegedly provided abortion pills to his girlfriend. Then, in August, the Texas sent a ceeytail ceasement. Texas law prohibits almost all abortions.
Texas and Louisiana also went after Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a doctor based in New York accused of having sent abortion pills to people of the two states. Louisiana charged Carpenter, while Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, continued it before the Civil Court. After a New York County clerk refused to apply the fine of a court against Carpenter, citing the state shield law, Paxton continued the clerk. In return, Letitia James, New York General Prosecutor, announced that she would officially intervene to defend the New York Shield Act.
Legal experts are largely expecting the United States Supreme Court finally intervening to judge legal confrontations between states that prohibit abortion and those who protect the procedure.
