New York Doctor Indicted in Louisiana for Sending Abortion Pills There

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : It is expected to become a major test of whether states can apply criminal laws to people acting outside their borders.
55% : "Shield laws across the country enable licensed health care professionals to successfully deliver reproductive health care to patients in under-resourced areas nationwide," the coalition said in a statement on Friday, adding, "This state-sponsored effort to prosecute a doctor providing safe and effective care should alarm everyone.
53% : " Anti-abortion activists praised the Louisiana charges.
50% : Doctors, nurse practitioners and other health care providers in states with shield laws have been sending more than 10,000 abortion pills per month to states with abortion bans or restrictions.
45% : Telemedicine abortion shield laws, which have been adopted by eight states so far, have become a significant avenue for providing access to abortion for women in states with bans without requiring them to leave their state.
34% : Abortion opponents are also pressing the Trump administration to revive a 151-year-old federal anti-vice law known as the Comstock Act and use it to try to prevent the mailing of abortion pills.

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