Louisiana has issued a criminal arrest warrant for a California doctor suspected of mailing abortion pills to a patient in the state, in violation of state law, officials confirmed Sept. 29.
The state filed the arrest warrant on Sept. 19 for Dr. Remy Coeytaux, a Northern California physician, accused of violating the state’s abortion ban two years ago by providing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman.
The Louisiana arrest warrant came to light just days before California enacted new laws on Sept. 26, making the practice legal and shielding medical professionals and their attorneys from “adverse legal action.”
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued a statement on social media on Sept. 29 vowing to hold people accountable for distributing the pills in the state.
“On multiple occasions, I have raised concerns about the unlawful distribution of these pills in our State and the harm that it does to women,” Murrill stated.
“It’s dangerous, irresponsible, unethical, and illegal to distribute these pills to strangers in violation of the criminal laws of our State, without any relationship whatsoever to the individual who may ultimately be consuming them.”
Murrill added she would enforce and defend the state laws, including suing the governors whose shield laws claim to protect doctors and other medical professionals from criminal conduct in Louisiana.
The Louisiana patient, Rosalie Markezich, said her boyfriend used her email address to order drugs from Coeytaux in 2023 and gave her $150 to send to the out-of-state doctor. The patient said she had no other contact with the doctor, according to court filings.
Markezich said she didn’t want to take the abortion pills but felt forced into it. She also said “the trauma of my chemical abortion still haunts me” and that it would have never happened if telehealth prescriptions for the drug were prohibited, according to court documents.
Markezich and Murrill have also requested to join a lawsuit that seeks to order drug regulators to bar telehealth prescriptions to mifepristone, one of two drugs taken in combination to induce abortions.
The California doctor at the center of the Louisiana case, Coeytaux, has a medical degree from Stanford University and has been practicing and teaching medicine for nearly 30 years, according to his website. Coeytaux is a solo practitioner who has no employees.
Coeytaux did not immediately return a request for comment….
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new state law on Sept. 29 to shield health care providers, pharmacists, clinics, and hospitals from penalties for prescribing or dispensing mifepristone.
It also allows a pharmacist to dispense the drugs without including the patient’s name, the prescriber’s name, or the pharmacy’s name and address on the label….
From the Epoch Times
Y’all aren’t content killing babies and violating girls and women in your own state. Your Catholic governor is intent on killing children in our pro-life states. What a tragedy. Please don’t foist him on the nation in 2028.
Reply to a Texas Catholic: Y’all 100% right. America would rue the day if the California governor ever became the President!
All Democrats should be arrested. They are traitors to the Constitution and to America.
How sad sign of the times. Mail in abortion! End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
Gruesome Newsom’s sign should read: Regressive California Protects Reproductive Killing! End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
Babies are an existential threat, like Charlie Kirk, and should be eliminated. Notice Gav the Great said Kirk’s assassination was bad (not to say that would’ve derailed his campaign to save our country). Remember, he’s the candidate for freedom, love, license and laziness. Who doesn’t want those things? Could Catholics actually consider voting for a Nazi Fascist hater like Vance or DeSantis? Come on, be reasonable. Stop the hate. What good are babies anyway? They can’t even vote. What do those deplorables in Louisiana and Texas know anyway? Remember, Gavin went to Santa Clara University, where he learned Jesuitical values. He even went to the USF presidential inauguration with Cardinal McElroy. Gav will probably get a life-time achievement award from one of the cardinals.
What are you talking about? The Pope is going to make Gav a Cardinal. Then he will be in line to be the next Pope.
Vatican II Church (whatever that means),
Newsom is not a priest. Here’s what Canon Law stipulates (the Pope would need to change this first, and that isn’t going to happen):
Can. 351 §1. The Roman Pontiff freely selects men to be promoted as cardinals, who have been ordained at least into the order of the presbyterate and are especially outstanding in doctrine, morals, piety, and prudence in action; those who are not yet bishops must receive episcopal consecration.
Only One Church: are you as ardent in enforcing the provisions of Traditionis Custodes that the TLM should not be celebrated in parishes?
Pope Francis has showed us that the Pope can do whatever he wants to do and that no one can judge him.
In response to the question about Traditionis Custodes, I do not promote or oppose the TLM, yet it is the role of bishops to govern the Church, including the Mass and other liturgies. I am not a bishop and presume you are not either. The fact that some bishops appear to have found a way around TC does not bother me. But, we can’t all be our own bishops or pope.
Do you support enforcing Humanae Vitae, an encyclical (a higher, more authoritative teaching of the Church than an apostolic letter issued motu proprio)?
My point is that like Trent, Vatican I and other ecumenical councils, Vatican II is a council of the one Catholic Church. There are not 21 separate Catholic Churches, one for each council. We are the Church of the Council of Nicaea (celebrating its 1,700th anniversary), as well as the Church of Trent, both Vatican Councils, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon and others.