Louisiana indicts California doctor for 2023 medication abortion

[RandySF]

Attorney General Liz Murrill has obtained an indictment for a California doctor who she alleges sent abortion pills to Louisiana in violation of state law.

Murrill said in a news release Tuesday that Dr. Rémy Coeytaux has been charged in St. Tammany Parish with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs. She has asked Gov. Jeff Landry to approve an extradition warrant to bring Coeytaux to Louisiana to face the charge, though California authorities are unlikely to cooperate.

In 2024, Louisiana classified the reproductive health drugs mifepristone and misoprostol as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances, the same designation given to drugs with the potential for addiction and abuse such as Valium and Xanax. The medications are the most commonly prescribed for abortion, but they also have other life-saving medical uses.

Louisiana became the first state to set criminal penalties for anyone who handles mifepristone and misoprostol without proper clearance. Offenses can be punished by one to 50 years in prison, depending on the circumstances.



https://lailluminator.com/2026/01/13/louisiana-abortion-medication/

[marble falls]

1. I hope they hold their breath until California extradites him. I dare them to hold their breath.

[hlthe2b]

2. Like Colorado (and some others), California passed legislation to protect their providers

against this kind of crap so, yeah... they can go pound sand waiting on that extradition.

[marble falls]

4. I wonder if LA Gov Landry will do a pro forma extradition request to keep MAGA off his back.

[hlthe2b]

8. Probably... Much like his chest-pounding after the firing of LSU Coach Kelly

(called a press conference to scream and moan about how much money he was paid and how HE would make sure that did not continue with future hires)--Oops, Former Ole Miss Coach Lane Kiffin was hired for even more $$ and bennies.

[marble falls]

9. Very little I like about LA, starting with okra (unless it's pickled and then only that) ...

... one of these times I'll tell about the time my dad caught thieves stealing from the Enron Plant he was the superintendent of and the sheriff arrested him and took kept his shot gun because the plant was in two parishes and the 100 square yards around the gate he stopped the sheriff's cousin at was in the parish where Enron hadn't paid off the county judge and sheriff.

It was an oversight, Enron had no qualms about buying every and anybody off.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. What if the doctor travels and Louisiana kidnaps him and brings him there for trial?

[Buckeyeblue]

5. Honestly that could happen in CA as well

I hope he has security.

[Happy Hoosier]

7. No jurisdiction in CA.

They would be committing a crime. Not that that matters to them.

[Buckeyeblue]

13. Right. MAGA doesn't care about the law

[ProfessorGAC]

6. What Am I Getting Wrong?

They indicted on a 2023 action for a law passed in 2024?
From the information in the article, it seems like an attempt at retroactive prosecution.
Also, something seems fishy about the story. "The boyfriend" bought the pills, he "made her" take them, and she "couldn't regurgitate" them.
That all seems an incredibly convenient set of circumstances.

[marble falls]

10. They are clumbsily discussing two different cases.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Thanks

I just missed that.

[Johonny]

12. Can California stop sending our tax dollars too

I'm good letting that state get by without our help. It feels appropriate.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Calif. is going to tell LA. to fuck off and die,

there will be no compliance with an extradition request, rightly so.