Posted on 02/14/2025 2:23:15 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has rejected Louisiana’s request to extradite a doctor from her state accused of prescribing and mailing abortion drugs to a woman in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Both were indicted on felony charges last month for allegedly violating a Louisiana law prohibiting the sale, prescription, delivery, dispensing and distribution of abortion-inducing medication.
According to Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill, both Republicans, the West Baton Rouge woman forced her pregnant minor daughter to take the pills, though the woman hasn’t been charged with the crime of coerced abortion.
Landry signed an extradition request Wednesday from Murrill, who said she intends to personally prosecute Dr. Margaret Carpenter and the West Baton Rouge woman, who is not being identified to protect her daughter’s identity.
At a Thursday afternoon news conference in Manhattan, Hochul, a Democrat, referenced New York’s shield laws that protect reproductive health care providers from criminal prosecution in other states. Louisiana banned abortion almost entirely in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. The procedure remains legal in New York.
“Louisiana has changed their laws, but that has no bearing on the laws here in the state of New York,” Hochul said. “Doctors take an oath to protect their patients. I took an oath of office to protect all New Yorkers, and I will uphold not only our constitution, but also the laws of our land. And I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana. Not now, not ever.”
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Yeahbut, the patient isn't in NY. It wasn't a Zoom call.
Practicing without a license is the act of working without the licensure offered for that occupation, in a particular jurisdiction. -w
“The Extradition Clause in the US Constitution requires states, upon demand of another state, to deliver a fugitive from justice who has committed a “treason, felony or other crime” to the state from which the fugitive has fled. 18 U.S.C. § 3182”
Hmmm...
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Beat me to it. Well done.
Judge Orders NY Abortionist to Stop Illegally Mailing Abortion Pills to Texas
Life News ^ | February 13, 2025 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on 2/14/2025, 1:34:34 AM by Morgana
A Texas judge has ordered New York based abortionist Margaret Carpenter stop illegally prescribing and mailing abortion pills to people in Texas and to pay a $100,000 fine, As LifeNews reported, Carpenter faces a lawsuit from the state of Texas for selling abortion pills there in violation of state law. The judge’s ruling today came in response to that lawsuit.
The ruling by Judge Bryan Gantt, who was appointed to the 471st District Court by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in September, is a default ruling that permanently enjoins Carpenter from “prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents,” according to the order. Texas had argued in its amended complaint that the “defendant by her non-answer has admitted all of the plaintiffs’ allegations of fact establishing liability.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated the lawsuit, alleging that Carpenter violated Texas law by sending abortion pills to a Texas resident without holding a medical license in the state. Also, Carpenter has been indicted for illegally selling abortion pills to people in the pro-life state of Louisiana, where babies are legally protected from abortions. The indictment came after officials learned that a minor girl was gvien the abortion pills that Margaret Carpenter and her company Nightingale Medical sold to the teen’s mom.
The mother of the minor, who according to reports coerced the minor to take the abortion pills, has also been indicted. The District Attorney of West Baton Rouge Parish, Tony Clayton, told The Advocate that the girl did not want the abortion and had a reveal party planned for her baby. When the teenager took the abortion drug she experienced a medical emergency and had to be taken to the hospital. The baby ultimately died.
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Well the interstate sale of drugs against Lousiana state law is a federal crime.
Federal Agents can get their own warrant.
outlaw states
I think Hochul might be a little more compliant.
Now the question is, can the Feds arrest Hochul for harboring a criminal?
Well, to paraphrase our new AG: “We are suing and need to let the judicial process work through. But prosecution would not be off the table.”
The dems are sure trying to outlaw them.
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If the doctor used the USPS to deliver the pills, doesn’t that make it a federal crime? Or is it okay to send things in the mail that are illegal at the destination?
OK.....but Louisiana can refuse extradition requests from NY in the future too. That works both ways.
“from which the fugitive has fled”
Doesn’t seem to apply here?
Time for a test case then.
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Gov Hochul has just sentenced the doctor to always remain inside the state lines of New York.
EC
If you mailed a weapon to someone, anywhere, including another state, knowing they were going to kill someone with it, there wouldn't even be a moment's hesitation before you were arrested and charged. The abortifacient is illegal in Louisiana and Margaret Carpenter intentionally and admittedly sent it to a resident in that state.
New York politicians' claim that other states' laws don't apply to a New York residents, means that residents of other states can mail firearms, firearm magazines, alcohol, tobacco, and gas stoves to anyone in New York (including minors), and New York has no legal recourse to stop them.
Maybe Louisiana can retaliate by having their depart of motor vehicle ignore those “toll by plate” letters and automated traffic enforcement tickets.
Not many in LA may be traveling to NY though.
I had an idea. Louisiana Governor Landry should hire bounty hunters to cross into New York and drive the so-called doctor to Louisiana to stand trial. I wonder what Dog Chapman is doing these days.
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