By SARA CLINE and GEOFF MULVIHILL

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is pursuing a criminal case against another out-of-state doctor accused of mailing abortion pills to a patient in the state, court documents filed this month revealed.

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A warrant for the arrest of a California doctor is a rare charge of violating one of the state abortion bans that has taken effect since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and allowed enforcement.

It represents an additional front in a growing legal battle between liberal and conservative states over prescribing abortion medications via telehealth and mailing them to patients.

Pills are the most common way abortions are accessed in the U.S., and are a major reason that, despite the bans, abortion numbers rose last year, according to a report.

A Louisiana woman says she was forced to take abortion drugs

Louisiana said in a court case filed Sept. 19 that it had issued a warrant for a California-based doctor who it says provided pills to a Louisiana woman in 2023.

Both the woman, Rosalie Markezich, and the state attorney’s general, are seeking to be part of a lawsuit that seeks to order drug regulators to bar telehealth prescriptions to mifepristone, one of the two drugs usually used in combination for medication abortions.

In court filings, Markezich says her boyfriend at the time used her email address to order drugs from Dr. Remy Coeytaux, a California physician, and sent her $150, which she forwarded to Coeytaux. She said she had no other contact with the doctor.

She said she did not want to take the pills but felt forced to and said in the filing that “the trauma of my chemical abortion still haunts me” and that it would not have happened if telehealth prescriptions to the drug were off limits.

The accusation builds on a position taken by anti-abortion groups: That allowing abortion pills to be prescribed by phone or video call and filled by mail opens the door to women being coerced to take them.

“Rosalie is bravely representing many woman who are victimized by the illegal, immoral, and unethical conduct of these drug dealers,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement.

The doctor also faces a lawsuit in Texas

Murrill’s office did not immediately answer questions about what charges Coeytaux faces, or when the warrant was issued. But under the state’s ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, physicians convicted of providing abortion face up to 15 years in prison and $200,000 in fines.

Coeytaux is also the target of a lawsuit filed in July in federal court by a Texas man who says the doctor illegally provided his girlfriend with abortion pills.

Coeytaux did not immediately respond to emails or a phone message.

The combination of a Louisiana criminal case and a Texas civil case over abortion pills is also playing out surrounding a New York doctor, Margaret Carpenter. New York authorities are refusing to extradite Dr. Carpenter to Louisiana or to enforce for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the $100,000 civil judgment against her.

In the Louisiana case, officials said a pregnant minor’s mother requested the abortion medication online and directed her daughter to take them. The mother was arrested, pleaded not guilty and was released on bond.

New York officials cite a law there that seeks to protect medical providers who prescribe abortion medications to patients in states with abortion bans — or where such prescriptions by telehealth violate the law.

New York and California are among the eight states that have shield laws with such provisions, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.

The legal and political fight over abortion pills is expanding

The legal filings that revealed the Louisiana charge against Coeytaux are part of an effort for Louisiana, along with Florida and Texas, to join a lawsuit filed last year by the Republican attorneys general for Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to roll back federal approvals for mifepristone.

This year, both Louisiana and Texas have adopted laws to target out-of-state providers of abortion pills.

The Louisiana law lets patients who receive abortions sue providers and others. The Texas law goes further and allows anyone to sue those who prescribe such pills in the state.

Both Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary have said they are conducting a full review of mifepristone’s safety and effectiveness.

Medication abortion has been available in the U.S. since 2000, when the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone.

Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

A view of NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses from Vernon Boulevard. The City Council will hold an oversight hearing Tuesday about surveillance at NYCHA campuses. (City Limits/Adi Talwar)

Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

Know of an event we should include in next week’s calendar? Email us.

Upcoming Housing and Land Use-Related Events:

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 9:30 a.m.: The Landmarks Preservation Commission will meet. More here.

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Public Housing Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the use of surveillance at NYCHA campuses. More here.

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions will meet regarding land use applications for: Claremont House: 1640 Anthony Avenue, NYC Health and Hospitals/River Commons (1225 Gerard Avenue),  Ikos Senior Living, Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment, Arverne East Amendment.

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.: The Department of Housing, Preservation and Development will host an online workshop about the rights of tenants in rent regulated apartments. More here.

Friday, Oct. 3 at 1 p.m.: The NYC Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights will hold an oversight hearing on housing discrimination and inequity. More here.

Monday, Oct. 6 at 1 p.m.: The City Planning Commission will hold a public review sessions. More here.

NYC Affordable Housing Lotteries Ending Soon: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are closing lotteries on the following subsidized buildings over the next week.

558 Sackett Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $37,612 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 9/29)

39-20 214th Place Apartment, Queens, for households earning between $87,018 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 9/29)

19 Rockwell Place Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $75,669 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/1)

340 & 342 Melrose Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $103,166 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 10/2)

37-18 Broadway Apartments, Queens, for households earning between $83,452 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/2)

962 Bushwick Avenue Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $104,812 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/3)

1975 Madison Avenue Apartments, Manhattan, for households earning between $106,286 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/6)

Inwood Living, Manhattan, for households earning between $37,852 – $210,000 (last day to apply is 10/6)

2795 Fulton Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $51,018 – $160,720 (last day to apply is 10/6)

972 Bushwick Avenue Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $104,812 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/6)

600 Crown Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $111,360 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/6)

Bryant Avenue Apartments, Bronx, for households earning between $111,360 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 10/6)

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A man attending a wedding event in a Maplewood park was shot and injured, allegedly by the best man, according to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office.

The 36-year-old from St. Paul sustained a gunshot wound to each leg and was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, said Steve Linders, a sheriff’s office spokesman.

There were about 100 people at the wedding event at Keller Regional Park. An argument between the victim and the suspect — not during the wedding ceremony — preceded the shooting on Saturday about 7:10 p.m., Linders said.

The suspect left in a vehicle before Maplewood officers or deputies arrived. Sheriff’s office investigators were working to locate him as of Monday afternoon.

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By Erik Wasson, Bloomberg News

President Donald Trump and top congressional leaders have strong political incentives to stoke the ongoing stalemate during a White House meeting Monday even as they drive the U.S. to its first government shutdown in nearly seven years.

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Democrats are keen to use the shutdown battle to frame the next election around rising costs, particularly for health care. Republicans are equally eager to blame the Democrats and show them to be poor stewards of the government and the U.S. economy ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Progressive Democrats are putting party leaders under enormous pressure to show they are willing to fight the Trump administration. Those leaders are confident they can unite their caucus behind the health care issue and prevent a defection by the eight Democrats needed to pass the Republican bill, which would keep the government funded until Nov. 21.

GOP leaders say they can negotiate after the short-term bill is passed, but Democrats have said they don’t trust Trump or the Republican leaders to keep that promise. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Monday that Trump has leverage in the fight because the public dislikes government shutdowns.

“There is zero good reason for Democrats to vote against this clean continuing resolution,” Leavitt said. “The president is giving Democrats one last chance to be reasonable today. Look, there is nothing to negotiate when you have a clean CR look.”

Democrats want to spend $350 billion to permanently extend Obamacare tax credits to middle-class families, to avoid a premium spike on Jan. 1. They also want the bill to repeal Medicaid cuts in the giant Trump tax bill, including new work requirements and a crackdown on an accounting gimmick that has allowed states to increase their Medicaid reimbursement rates. They also want to reverse cuts to medical research and block the White House from rescinding previously enacted appropriations.

“Our position has been very clear: cancel the cuts, lower the cost, save health care so we can address the issues that really matter to the American people in an environment where the cost of living is too high,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday on ABC’s This Week.

Trump has tied Democrats’ demands to the hot-button issue of migration, accusing them of seeking to funnel $1 trillion in taxpayer funds for undocumented immigrants.

That claim is wildly exaggerated, but based lon an aspect of the Democratic proposal, which would effectively increase federal Medicaid reimbursements to states that pay for emergency care for undocumented migrants.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the current restriction saves $28 billion over 10 years. They also want to repeal a separate provision that clarifies parolees and asylum seekers with temporary permission to remain the U.S. can’t receive Obamacare subsidies would save $119 billion over 10 years.

Trump gave no indication Sunday that the meeting would offer an easy resolution.

“I just don’t know how we are going to solve this issue,” Trump said in a phone interview with CBS News. He continued his criticism of Democrats’ negotiation posture, saying “they’re not interested in fraud, waste and abuse,” which is the only thing Republicans claim they are cutting from the budget.

The Trump administration has also threatened Democrats with mass firings of federal workers in the wake of any shutdown, supercharging a downsizing overseen by White House budget Director Russ Vought.

Instead of merely furloughing non-essential workers, as is usual during a shutdown, the administration is preparing to permanently end a number of jobs likely in the areas of the environment, agriculture and labor regulation.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday dismissed the threat as something Trump was going to do anyway. October layoffs were already in the works and the shutdown could allow the White House to blame Democrats for any economic fallout from the layoffs, while satisfying small-government conservatives in the party base.

Leavitt on Monday said that there won’t be any layoffs if the government remains open.

Democrats such as Senator Amy Klobuchar told reporters last week that the party is not demanding its entire proposal in exchange for voting for a GOP bill to keep the lights on through Nov. 21. The talks Monday signal the pressure on the White House to at least meet with Democrats worked.

“We never said that we need to have every single thing and that every single thing’s a red line. We want to negotiate with them to make this health care crisis less bad,” Klobuchar, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, said Friday.

She and other senators said this weekend that a mere promise from the GOP to talk later won’t suffice.

But that is precisely what Senate Majority Leader John Thune is suggesting.

“We can have that conversation. But before we do, release the hostage. Set the American people free. Keep the government open, and then let’s have a conversation about those premium tax credits,” Thune said on NBC’s Meet the Press. He said any possible deal on Obamacare subsidies isn’t ready.

Republicans are divided on the Obamacare issue. Twelve swing-district House Republicans have signed onto a bill to extend them by a year, while Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is spearheading an effort to extend them by two years. Other moderates say they want to phase in an income limit to prevent high earners from claiming the benefit and introduce greater fraud controls.

Conservatives are standing firm, arguing that the COVID pandemic-era subsidies were meant to be temporary. Some argue that any deal on the premiums would have to include new restrictions preventing Obamacare plans from covering abortion and transgender-related procedures.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union that the meeting on Monday will be an opportunity for Trump to tell Democrats to drop their demands.

“Think of it, troops won’t be paid because Chuck Schumer needs political cover. I mean, it’s really that simple and I think everybody is going to see that clearly,” Johnson said. “The president wants to talk with him about that and say, ‘Don’t do that.’”

Schumer said he expects a substantive meeting.

“We’ll see on Monday — are they serious about negotiating with us,” he said.

With assistance from Lauren Dezenski and Josh Wingrove.

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