Days after a New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a resident of the southern state, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation bolstering protections for reproductive health care providers.

The new law, which took effect after it was signed Monday, allows New York doctors to request that the name of their health care practice be printed on abortion pill bottles instead of their own name.

The move by the governor comes after grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter; her company, New Paltz-based Nightingale Medical, PC; and a third person.

All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.

Hochul said prosecutors identified the doctor because her name was printed on the medication label.

The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and opened the door for states to have strict anti-abortion laws.

Surrounded by lawmakers and doctors on Monday, Hochul pledged to protect doctors in New York who provide health care to out-of-state patients.

“This doctor simply responded to a cry for help, and in return now faces a felony charge that subjects an individual to a prison term of up to five years, and fines as high as $50,000. Think about that. Five years in prison simply because you upheld your oath and delivered medical care,” Hochul said.

“I basically said there’s no way in hell that I’ll ever respond to a request to extradite this individual [to] face criminal charges,” she added. “Never, under any circumstances, will I sign an extradition agreement that sends our doctor into harm’s way to be prosecuted as a criminal for simply following her oath.”

Friday’s indictment could be the first direct test of New York’s shield laws, which are intended to protect prescribers who use telehealth to provide abortion pills to patients in states where abortion is banned.

Pills have become the most common means of abortion in the U.S., accounting for nearly two-thirds of them by 2023. They’re also at the center of political and legal action over abortion.

In January, one judge let three states continue to challenge federal government approvals for how one of the drugs usually involved can be prescribed.