(LifeSiteNews) — New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter, who is facing an active arrest warrant from the State of Louisiana and has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has apparently left the United States for Dublin, Ireland.
According to my friend Niamh Uí Bhriain, an Irish pro-life activist and commentator with the news outlet GRIPT, Carpenter registered with the Irish Medical Council in October 2025 and now resides in South Dublin. “It is not known whether she plans to continue distributing abortion pills from this country,” Uí Bhriain wrote.
As I reported in First Things last February, Carpenter was indicted by a West Baton Rouge grand jury (along with an unnamed 39-year-old Louisiana mother) on charges of criminal abortion by means of abortifacient drugs. The Louisiana woman had purchased the pills by mail from Carpenter and allegedly forced her pregnant daughter—who wanted to keep her baby—to take them. The girl was a minor.
The young woman—who, according to District Attorney Tony Clayton, had already planned a gender reveal party—then suffered a medical emergency as a result of taking the pills and had to be rushed to the hospital, where she was treated and, thankfully, stabilized. Despite the fact that the girl had been coerced and had her choice ignored and removed, New York Governor Kathy Hochul stridently defended Carpenter, insisting that she had been indicted for “simply providing a lifesaving medication.”
Hochul made no mention of the fact that the “lifesaving medication” had killed a wanted baby and put a young mother in the hospital. In 2023, Hochul signed a “shield law” that protects abortionists from legal consequences for breaking the pro-life laws of other states and bars state officials from cooperating with other states.
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“It is illegal to send abortion pills into this state and it’s illegal to coerce another into having an abortion,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said at the time. “The allegations in this case have nothing to do with reproductive health care, this is about coercion. This is about forcing somebody to have an abortion who didn’t want one.” Texas AG Ken Paxton also sued Carpenter for allegedly sending abortion pills to a young woman in Texas.
As Live Action News reported, Carpenter continued to send the abortion pill into Louisiana after her 2024 indictment, including an incident in which a woman took the “medication” at 20 weeks pregnant (10 weeks past the FDA authorized gestational limit) and “went into labor after consuming [the] abortion drugs allegedly supplied by Carpenter, before eventually discarding her baby.”
Carpenter has now relocated to Ireland; the Irish Medical Council has not confirmed her professional status in the country. “It remains uncertain as to whether Carpenter plans to continue distributing abortion pills while living in Ireland,” Live Action News noted. “However, in 2022, Carpenter helped set up the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT), a nonprofit organization based in New York that offers both legal and technical assistance to telemedicine providers.”
Carpenter’s residence in Dublin highlights the new reality of the abortion wars: an underground black market for abortion pills, facilitated online, trafficked from jurisdictions where abortion is legal into jurisdictions where children in the womb are protected by law.
Carpenter has remained silent on both her active arrest warrant as well as her current activities, but the reality is that regardless of the human cost of her activities—a girl forced into an unwanted abortion, a woman discarding her baby after a late-term abortion facilitated by pills—for the moment, she can get away with murder.
