(LifeSiteNews) — A California abortionist could be arrested for illegally mailing drugs into Louisiana in violation of state law.
Louisiana’s attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for Dr. Remy Coeytaux, according to the Associated Press.
“Louisiana said in a court case filed Sept. 19 that it had issued a warrant for a California-based doctor who it says provided pills to a Louisiana woman in 2023,” the AP reported. “Both the woman, Rosalie Markezich, and the state attorney’s general, are seeking to be part of a lawsuit that seeks to order drug regulators to bar telehealth prescriptions [of] mifepristone, one of the two drugs usually used in combination for medication abortions.”
Markezich said she paid for the drugs but later felt coerced into taking them, according to the AP.
“Rosalie is bravely representing many women who are victimized by the illegal, immoral, and unethical conduct of these drug dealers,” Attorney General Liz Murrill stated.
Coeytaux faces a separate lawsuit from a Texas man who alleges the doctor sent his girlfriend the drugs, which she used under pressure from her ex-husband. The girlfriend was pregnant with the Texas man’s child, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
California recently joined other states in moving to protect abortionists who illegally send drugs into states that prohibit abortion. While Republican states have generally tried to place at least some protections in place for preborn babies, Democratic Party leaders have insisted on so-called “shield laws” that protect abortionists who undermine the rule of law and seek to evade pro-life protections.
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed legislation to protect illegal abortionists as he eyes a potential 2028 presidential run. Other states including Massachusetts and New York have similarly not taken actions to protect innocent preborn babies and their moms, but rather abortionists.
The official Democratic Party stance on abortion is that it should be legal up until the moment of birth, paid for by taxpayers, and without any barriers.
New York also has a “shield law” in place. In the years since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, other pro-abortion states have moved to protect abortionists from any consequences for illegal abortions.
Abortion drugs have become more frequently used since President Joe Biden eliminated basically every federal regulation on them, allowing the pills to be shipped across the country without any accountability. Currently, they account for about 63 percent of all abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The so-called “shield laws” have drawn legal scrutiny from the attorneys general of Republican states, meanwhile.
“By encouraging medical professionals in pro-abortion states to violate pro-life States’ abortion laws, shield laws are antithetical to the spirit of federalism and the Dobbs decision by not allowing each State to regulate abortion as it sees fit,” attorneys general from 16 different states wrote to Congress, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
“Shield laws also raise serious constitutional concerns. For example, they violate the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution because they do not give ‘full faith and credit’ to the judicial proceedings occurring in other States. U.S. Const. art. IV, § 1,” the letter added. “When New York or California refuses to respect a criminal prosecution or a civil judgment against an individual who is accused of violating the abortion laws of another State, they are refusing to give full faith and credit to that State’s judicial proceedings. Similarly, shield laws could run afoul of the Extradition Clause of the Constitution.”
Abortion drugs can never be truly safe because they kill innocent preborn babies. Additionally, they can be dangerous for the women taking them, with at least one in 10 women suffering serious reported side effects, according to a comprehensive study.
“10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion,” the Ethics and Public Policy Center found in a report. “The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label.”
Another report from the National Right to Life Committee raises similar issues, pointing out pro-abortion groups tell women to lie about adverse reactions from the drugs. Instead, the women should say they had a miscarriage, abortion activists say.
“One reason the ER doctors may not enter any note about the chemical abortion on the chart is that they don’t know patients have taken abortion pills or that patients have been told by those who prescribed their abortion pills not to reveal this to the doctors,” the report notes. It quotes several prominent abortion drug pushers who give women this exact advice.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced he had directed the Food and Drug Administration to study the safety of the pills, as reported by LifeSiteNews.
