(The Advocate) – A West Baton Rouge Parish grand jury indicted a New York doctor Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a minor teenage girl in Port Allen and the girl’s mother for coercing her to take the medicine to end her pregnancy.

District Attorney Tony Clayton said a warrant was issued for the arrest of Dr. Margaret “Maggie” Carpenter, 55, and the teen’s 39-year-old mother, whom The Advocate isn’t identifying since her daughter is a minor. She and Carpenter were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs. If convicted, the felony carries a possible one- to five-year prison sentence. (Read More)