A Louisiana Mom Has Pled Not Guilty to Giving Her Daughter Pills For a ‘Criminal Abortion’

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with “criminal abortion” for providing her minor daughter with pills to end her pregnancy pled not guilty in her first court appearance on Tuesday.The criminal prosecution of 39-year-old Ashley Lights marks a new escalation in the state's fight to end access following the fall of Roe v.

Wade, and is likely to be a watershed moment for reproductive rights in the US. Lights, from Port Allen, is thought to be the first woman to ever be charged with a felony indictment for obtaining abortion pills by mail.Lights was arraigned on the charge of “criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs,” reported.

Her next court appearance for a pretrial hearing is scheduled for May 5.The indictment against Lights states that she “knowingly did cause an abortion to occur” on April 5, 2024.

The state also charged , a New York state-based doctor, for providing Lights with the pills by mail. In abortion is completely banned even in cases of rape or incest, although there are exceptions if the fetus is not expected to survive the pregnancy or to protect the health or life of the mother.Carpenter, who was charged along with her practice Nightingale Medical PC, is the co-founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT), an advocacy organization that provides information and support for doctors who want to provide women in banned states with abortion pills.