Louisiana’s attorney general is seeking to extradite a New York doctor who prescribed and sent abortion medication through the mail to a resident of the Pelican State, escalating a legal battle surrounding the doctor that could test the limits of state abortion shield laws.

Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke out after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed an extradition warrant for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online.

We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel. "What constitutes a human right in one state is a capital crime in another.

Society / New York’s shield law was designed to protect providers mailing medication abortion pills out of state. But a New York provider is facing legal action in Louisiana and Texas. Rachel Rebouché Can a doctor who lives in and practices medicine in the state of New York be fined by a Texas court for violating Texas’s abortion ban and licensure law,

Authorities in Texas and Louisiana have taken legal action against a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing self-administered abortion pills to their residents through telemedicine and mailing them across state lines.

By Rebekah Sager for the Michigan Independent. Broadcast version by Chrystal Blair for Michigan News Connection reporting for the Michigan Independent-Public News Service Collaboration The AP reported on Jan.