New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) approved the law on Monday, after New York doctor Margaret Carpenter was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a girl in Louisiana.

The Louisiana case itself is part of a broader strategy pursued by abortion opponents in the state. Last year, a Louisiana state legislator pushed a bill to criminalize coerced abortion after his brother-in-law,

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.

On Friday, a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, returned a felony indictment of New York-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter. Her crime? Providing telehealth abortion services and FDA-approved medica

The new law in New York expands the state's shield laws for healthcare providers who provide abortion services to other states.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill letting doctors withhold their names from abortion pills they prescribe to thwart their prosecution in other states.

Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a new law designed to protect abortion care providers in New York from out-of-state attacks.