New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed the bill a few days after a New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for prescribing an abortion pill taken by a teenager in West Baton Rouge.

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.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.