The Louisiana case itself is part of a broader strategy pursued by abortion opponents in the state. Last year, a Louisiana state legislator pushed a bill to criminalize coerced abortion after his brother-in-law,

A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the U.

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