An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

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

On Friday, a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, returned a felony indictment of New York-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter. Her crime? Providing telehealth abortion services and FDA-approved medica