A female New York doctor was recently indicted on felony charges for allegedly prescribing abortion medication to a patient via telemedicine in Louisiana.

A New York doctor has been indicted and charged by a grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in Louisiana, which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. A Louisiana grand jury in Baton Rouge charged doctor Margaret Carpenter,

The case is one of the first direct challenges to shield laws enacted in blue states that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills to out-of-state patients.