Louisiana has issued an arrest warrant for a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman — the latest legal volley in an ongoing fight between states with abortion bans and those that have enacted protections for abortion providers who use telemedicine to send abortion medication over state lines.

The existence of the arrest warrant, first reported by the Associated Press, was revealed in court documents filed earlier this month in a lawsuit that aims to push federal regulators to reinstate in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone, rather than allowing it to be prescribed via telehealth. Mifepristone is used in combination with another drug, misoprostol, for medication abortions.

The woman, Rosalie Markezich, and Louisiana Republican Attorney Gen

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