This Thursday, February 13, Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, refused to meet the demand of the state of Louisiana to extradite a doctor accused of prescribing an abortive pill to a minor In this state, which has One of the strictest laws regarding abortion of the United States.
The Governor of the State of New York scored in a statement that “Louisiana has changed its laws, but that has nothing to do with the rules of the state of New York (…) and I will not sign the extradition order from the governor of Louisiana: Neither now, nor ever“
Hochul pointed out that today at noon his office received an extradition order for this doctor, “abortion practitioner”, which says it has been accused “of participating in a murder”.
And said that, after the cancellation of Roe v Wade, “the law by which my mother’s generation had to fight and that no longer exists for my daughter’s generation“, he was aware that in the state there were doctors who facilitate the practice of abortions” that could be vulnerable. “
The doctor, called Margaret Carpenter, was accused on February 1 by a large jury of Louisian In this state, where since summer of 2022, when the Supreme Court revoked ‘Roe v. Wade ‘, facilitating abortions is prohibited.
Carpenter, who had previously been sued in Texas for a similar case, She is accused with her company, Nightingale Medical, and a third person, “criminal abortion” through inductive drugs.
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