New York adds protections for doctors who send abortion pills out of state Democratic governor Kathy Hochul signs law permitting doctors to leave names off prescriptions for abortion pills.
New York state moved to increase protections for abortion providers who mail pills out of state, days after a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for allegedly doing just that.
New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, on Monday signed into law a bill that permits doctors to request that their names be left off prescriptions for abortion pills.
The new law arrives in the wake of intensified efforts to prosecute providers who use telemedicine to prescribe abortions to residents of states with abortion bans.
Late last year, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued Dr Margaret Carpenter, a New York-based provider, who allegedly prescribed abortion pills to a 20-year-old Texan.
