A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in Louisiana for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there, television station WAFB reported on Friday.

A New York doctor has been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

In what is believed to be the first criminal case of its kind in the post– Roe v. Wade era, a New York-based telemedicine provider has been indicted in Louisiana—which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country—for supplying the abortion pill to a teenage patient in that state.

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first time an abortion doctor has been criminally charged since Roe v. Wade was ov

A New York doctor has been indicted for allegedly sending abortion pills to a teenager in Louisiana, in what could be the first time a provider has faced criminal charges for mailing the medication since the rollback of abortion rights in the US.

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.