A California doctor has been indicted on felony charges for allegedly trafficking abortion pills into Louisiana. Dr. Remy Coeytaux has been charged in St. Tammany Parish with Criminal Abortion by Means of Abortion Inducing Drugs. Attorney General Liz Murrill says her office is seeking to extradite Dr. Coeytaux to Louisiana.
“We plan to execute a warrant against an abortion doctor who is illegally sending abortion pills into our state,” Murrill said.
Coeytaux is also facing a lawsuit from a Texas man who alleges he illegally provided his girlfriend with abortion pills. Coeytaux has not responded to the accusations made against him.
According to court documents filed last year, Dr. Coeytaux mailed Mifepristone, one of two medications commonly referred to as an abortion pill, to a woman who said she was forced to take them by her boyfriend. Murrill says Coeytaux is not providing healthcare, instead he’s dealing drugs.
“It’s illegal drug trafficking, and we will continue to prosecute those doctors,” Murrill said.
The woman who received the abortion pills claims it was her boyfriend who used her email address to order the drugs and she never had any contact with the California physician. Prosecutors in Louisiana are also involved in a similar case with a doctor out of New York.