PORT ALLEN — A grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor and her medical practice, along with a local woman,  alleging they took part in a mail-order abortion that ended the pregnancy of a Louisiana minor. 

Prosecutors say Dr. Margaret D. Carpenter of New Paltz, New York, and Nightingale Medical at the same address, sent an abortion-inducing drug to a Port Allen woman, who then gave it to her daughter. WBRZ is not identifying the local woman charged to conceal the identity of the girl.

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe vs. Wade, which had provided a right to abortions under the U.S. Constitution since 1973. Louisiana had a "trigger law" that made most abortions in the state illegal when Roe was set aside in Dobbs vs. Jackson Health.

The grand jury, meeting in West Baton Rouge Parish, accuses Carpenter of assisting in the commission of a Louisiana crime. Prosecutors said that while New York law may offer protections to her over her allegedly sending drugs out of that state, the protections wouldn't apply here.

Prosecutors say the girl's mother, after receiving the drugs, gave a pill to her daughter and that the child was left alone the next day, when she delivered a fetus. It wasn't immediately clear how far along the pregnancy was.

The indictment is believed to be the first in Louisiana over a mail-order abortion.