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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is doubling down on her refusal to extradite a Hudson Valley doctor charged with violating Louisiana’s abortion laws. In a video statement Thursday, Feb. 13, Hochul said she would not be signing an extradition order for Ulster ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul reitterated her support Thursday for embattled New Paltz doctor Maggie Carpenter after receiving an extradition request from Lousiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

With a pair of House members from both parties considering trying to take her job, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) will have to play defense from the right and the center — if not quite the center-left.

Following the indictment of New Paltz doctor Margaret Carpenter, Governor Hochul passed legislation strengthening protections for abortion pill prescribers.

In December, the state of Texas accused Dr. Maggie Carpenter, a family medicine doctor who practices in New York, of violating Texas law by providing abortion-inducing drugs to Texans via telehealth. The southern state bans abortion in almost all cases and also bans abortion pills from being prescribed through telemedicine.

New Yorkers overwhelmingly support the right to abortion. We saw this in November when voters strongly supported Prop 1, which wrote abortion protections into our state constitution.