New York enacted a law on Monday intended to protect the state's doctors from prosecution by other states that have banned abortions when they prescribe and mail out abortion pills.

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

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first time an abortion doctor has been criminally charged since Roe v. Wade was ov