WaPo: “New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she will not comply with a request to extradite to Louisiana a New York doctor who faces a criminal charge there for allegedly prescribing abortion-inducing drugs despite a near-total abortion ban.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) on Tuesday signed an extradition warrant for the New York doctor, Margaret DaleyCarpenter, after a Louisiana patient was allegedlyfound to have taken abortion medication. In a Thursday video statement, Landry alleged that the patient, a minor, wanted to keep the baby but was forced to take the medication by her mother and was hospitalized. “There is only one right answer in this situation,” he said, calling for Carpenter to stand trial in Louisiana.
Hochul (D) told reporters she had received the extradition order on Thursday and would not sign it. “Doctors take an oath to protect their patients,” she said on social media. “I took an oath to protect all New Yorkers.””