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The woman was indicted in January for allegedly giving her teen daughter pills she had obtained through the mail.

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.

Liz Murrill warns physician to “be careful” with her travel plans.

A Louisiana mother and a New York doctor have been indicted for allegedly providing abortion medication to a minor, in what’s believed to be the first case of its kind in the country seeking to criminalize the provision of abortion medication obtained through the mail.

A new survey suggests the number of abortions among women in Louisiana may have risen since the state banned nearly all abortions.

Lawmakers passed a law designed to limit reproductive rights in Louisiana. But it may also limit patients’ chances of surviving common life events like miscarriages and births.

Louisiana’s largest health system has sent guidance to some staff on the state’s new anti-abortion law that reclassifies two common pregnancy medications as controlled dangerous substances.

In one New Orleans-area hospital, they are already practicing timed drills, running from delivery rooms to the locked medicine cabinet where controlled substances are stored, to see how long it will take. In one recent drill, it took more than two minutes for doctors and nurses to retrieve misoprostol for a pretend patient who was bleeding out.

Louisiana’s top expert on maternal health has come out against a new law that will reclassify common pregnancy medications as dangerous controlled substances.

Physicians and Gulf South advocates say much won’t change in their states — which have total abortion bans in place — whether mifepristone is banned or not.