A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury Friday for prescribing abortion medication via telehealth to a woman in the state.

Grand jurors in Baton Rouge indicted Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, along with her company Nightingale Medical PC and a second person. Carpenter, a doctor and co-founder of the New York nonprofit the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT) was also sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last year for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a young woman in the state.

Louisiana and Texas both have some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Abortion is banned in Louisiana with exceptions for rape and incest, while Texas law bans almost all abortions unless a doctor determines the pregnancy poses a threat to the life of the mother or poses a risk of

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