In response to Republicans’ recent attacks on abortion shield laws, which protect abortion patients and providers from interstate criminal and civil penalties in abortion cases, DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin released the following statement: 

“In Donald Trump’s America, women are denied health care and doctors are prosecuted for doing their job. Trump ‘proudly’ dismantled Roe v. Wade, and now he’s deploying his minions in states across the country to go after doctors who are safely prescribing medication to their patients. It’s clear MAGA extremists will go to any length to punish women and strip away our freedoms, one by one. Democrats will fight back to defend against extreme Republicans’ attacks and protect women’s freedoms.”

Doctors in New York – a state with abortion shield laws – are being targeted for supplying mifepristone to Texas and Louisiana patients seeking help after extreme abortion bans were placed in their state.  

New York Times: “A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to stop prescribing and sending abortion pills to patients in Texas and to pay a penalty of more than $100,000 for providing the medication to one woman. …

“Texas was the first state with an abortion ban to initiate legal action against abortion providers in states with shield laws. But other states with abortion bans are expected to follow suit.”

Associated Press: “Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill”

“An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country. …

“The indictment comes just months after Louisiana became the first state with a law reclassifying both mifepristone and misoprostol as ‘controlled dangerous substances.’”

NBC News: “New York governor rejects Louisiana’s extradition request for doctor in abortion pill case”

“‘I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,’ Hochul said at a news conference Thursday after her office received the order for the abortion provider, Dr. Margaret Carpenter. …

“‘Louisiana has changed their laws, but that has no bearing on the laws here in the state of New York. Doctors take an oath to protect their patients. I took an oath of office to protect all New Yorkers, and I will uphold not only our constitution, but also the laws of our land,’ Hochul said.”