Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill
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An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor. Dr.

The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and opened the door for states to have strict anti-abortion laws.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    123·
    8 months ago

    The most amazing part of this timeline isn’t just the fact that the US is turning into a third-world shithole, but the speed at which it’s doing it.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      542·
      8 months ago

      The unfortunate truth is that we’ve been a shithole for a very long time, but now it’s affecting more people so more people are noticing.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        18·
        8 months ago

        What current events? The conservative party (with help accepted from the far right) today failed to push through the actual bill for stricter immigration law, after over 100000 people had demonstrated in the streets against their proposal yesterday.
        They got slapped in the face so hard it could be heard across the country.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
          1·
          8 months ago

          The only slap in the face they would care about is the banning of the Nazi party in Germany.

          They don’t care about that specific bill.

          They just need to get into power again, once.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    38·
    8 months ago

    Under the legislation, if someone knowingly possesses mifepristone or misoprostol without a valid prescription for any purpose, they could be fined up to $5,000 and sent to jail for one to five years. The law carves out protections for pregnant women who obtain the drug without a prescription to take on their own.

    Well what’s the fucking point of the law then?

      • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        That’s the goal with transgender healthcare too. The Republicans have two purposes: (1) get richer by swindling people, and (2) make people they irrationally hate suffer. The notions of making anything better or serving the people don’t even register on their radar.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, “Daddy’s home and he’s taken off his belt”.

          Republicans are very fucking weird. What kind of headspace is that? Daddy’s home? WTAF.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        10·
        8 months ago

        Are the drugs supposed to fall off accidentally from a plane, and pregnant women that need the drug just so happen to find a box on the ground?

      • CMLVI@lemmy.world
        16·
        8 months ago

        The fun part of that becomes, how will they know? Constant license plate tracking through cameras and subsequent information sharing across state PDs to catch, what in reality, is a political crime, and only illegal for brownie points with the electorate, or will they rely on more pointed surveillance waiting for the opportunity?

        Also, I know license plates already get tracked, but I don’t think an Dr prescribing a legal medication in their state would warrant flagged traveling across a multitude of states just for the chance to make a political arrest. Not that it’s beyond them or I don’t think they would to make a point, but it would admittedly be more absurd than expected.

          • CMLVI@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 months ago

            I don’t think the practice of it would be hard, it’s more the passing of information between depts. Open investigations get botched with info transfer, and people skate by with open warrants for “worse” charges than prescribing a medication some states don’t like. I don’t think the shortcoming is in the ability to do it, moreso the will. I do concede that maybe I’m underestimating the amount of red-faced cops who would love to be the arresting officer, but I’d hope they could find better uses of their time than this. I do continue to be surprised at things though, so maybe you’re right.

              • CMLVI@lemmy.world
                2·
                8 months ago

                It isn’t about database functionality, it’s about information sharing across jurisdictions and state lines. There isn’t a national police force, different precincts use different methods. States have highway patrol, local PD, sheriff’s, etc. It isn’t just saying “look for plate NY-A447 338” and every camera across the nation checks for it. Additionally, not every Dept and precinct is going to have resources to throw at catching a random Dr because Louisiana is pissy about stuff. There also would, presumably, be some planned lack of cooperation across some states and potentially intra-state departments. Different places prioritize different crimes to chase. New York obviously won’t be extraditing him, and I imagine similarly for other Northeast states surround NY, as well as “blue” city precincts.

                I’m sure the Dr is questioning traveling and stuff; but that’s wasn’t what I was trying to discuss; it was merely the concept of a national surveillance system monitoring one individual on behalf of a single state (or group of randomly spaced states) throwing resources after a political win, and the necessary cooperation across dozens and dozens of different state and local departments, in pursuit of this one individual.