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 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.

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 state 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,