An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

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