By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there. Margaret Carpenter and her practice,

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 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.

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.

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 was criminally indicted Friday for allegedly prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused her to have an abortion.

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