The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.

The teenager's mother went online to order a pregnancy-termination pill from a doctor in New York. It was sent to Louisiana, which has a strict anti-abortion policy with no exceptions for special circumstances.

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first time an abortion doctor has been criminally charged since Roe v. Wade was ov