Louisiana Indicts New York Abortion Provider For Mailing Abortion Pills To Louisiana Patient

Mmm afaik it’s a bit simpler than that: NY state has laws on the books that specifically prohibit any doctors in NY state from being served or extradited for stuff like this (as a reaction to this culture war idiocy). The state has made it intentionally impossible for themselves to assist any other state with prosecutions of this matter, which generally means these legal efforts are all hat and no cattle, and generally just die on the vine.

We’ll see how that paradigm holds up when our brand new American Sturmabteilung starts to get more organized and active.

TL;DR: doctor should be legally safe for now, but that might not matter in the near future due to extralegal/paramilitary action.

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So how does this work? Can they come to her home state and take her into custody?
- Apparently.
  American doctors/hospitals are usually paying obscene amounts of money to lawyers to keep themselves in the clear. This one slipped.
  
  Mmm afaik it’s a bit simpler than that: NY state has laws on the books that specifically prohibit any doctors in NY state from being served or extradited for stuff like this (as a reaction to this culture war idiocy). The state has made it intentionally impossible for themselves to assist any other state with prosecutions of this matter, which generally means these legal efforts are all hat and no cattle, and generally just die on the vine.
  We’ll see how that paradigm holds up when our brand new American Sturmabteilung starts to get more organized and active.
  TL;DR: doctor should be legally safe for now, but that might not matter in the near future due to extralegal/paramilitary action.