Woman claims she felt forced to take pills after boyfriend used her information to order from California physician.
By Catholics for Catholics
A doctor from California is facing an arrest warrant from authorities in Louisiana; he is accused of sending abortion pills via mail to a woman he never spoke with.
According to a story by Fox News, Dr. Remy Coeytaux purportedly sent the pills to Rosalie Markezich, a woman from Louisiana in 2023, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
In court documents, Markezich alleges that her boyfriend at the time used her email address to purchase drugs from Coeytaux and sent her $150, which she then forwarded to Coeytaux. She said she had no other contact with the doctor.
In the claim, Markezich said that she deemed she was forced to take the pills and that “the trauma of my chemical abortion still haunts me.” She believes it would not have happened if telehealth prescriptions for the drug were not available.
“Rosalie is bravely representing many women who are victimized by the illegal, immoral, and unethical conduct of these drug dealers,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement obtained by the AP.
Louisiana has a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, where physicians convicted of providing an abortion face up to 15 years in prison and $200,000 in fines.
Murrill is now seeking an order that would compel drug regulators to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone, one of the two drugs often used in combination for medication abortions.
According to Fox News, this is the second case Coeytaux is facing concerning abortion polls. A man from Texas filed a federal lawsuit in July alleging the doctor mailed abortion pills to his girlfriend that were ordered by her estranged husband, FOX 26 Houston reported.
To terminate her pregnancy, the girlfriend allegedly took the pills in September 2024. Coeytaux did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
Since 2000, medication to produce abortion has been available in the U.S., when the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone. The Supreme Court threw out a challenge to the FDA’s increase of access to mifepristone in June, ruling that the doctors and groups who brought the case lacked standing. While the Court did not rule on the merits of the challenge, they preserved access to mifepristone for the time being.
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