California’s pro-abortion governor is lashing out online in an escalating legal battle over the abortion drug. “Louisiana plans to sue me because I won’t extradite a doctor for providing an abortion,” Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) shared in a social media post late Thursday. Addressing Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, Newsom said, “Go f*** yourself. California will never help you criminalize healthcare.”

“Bless your heart,” Murrill responded to the Golden State governor. “Killing Louisiana babies isn’t healthcare, nor is shielding California drug dealers. The sovereign State of Louisiana will defend life. See ya soon.”

California-based abortionist Remy Coeytaux and New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter were indicted last month on felony charges in Louisiana after mailing the abortion drug mifepristone across state lines into Louisiana, where stringent pro-life laws protect the unborn. “This is not healthcare; it’s drug dealing. Individuals who flagrantly and intentionally violate our laws by sending illegal abortion pills into our state placing women in danger,” Murrill said in a statement on the California abortionist’s indictment. “We’ve seen the proof of that, with women showing up in emergency rooms after taking these pills and being coerced into abortions.”

Newsom refused to cooperate when Louisiana requested that Coeytaux be extradited to face justice for violating the state’s laws, as did New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D), who protected Carpenter from prosecution. California and New York both have “shield laws” in place to keep abortionists from being prosecuted for violating other states’ pro-life laws. Murrill announced this week that she intends to take Newsom and Hochul to federal court in an effort to force Coeytaux’s and Carpenter’s extraditions. “They don’t agree with the laws of our state, and so they have this whole system set up to nullify our laws,” Murrill told a local media outlet. “I think that is an affront to the full faith and credit that our state is afforded under the United States Constitution,” she added. “This conduct is unethical — medically unethical — in addition to being illegal.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, said, “Gavin Newsom seems to think Americans care more about killing innocent unborn children than they do about protecting women from abusers and drug dealers. And clearly, he has forgotten that America is made up of good and decent people who don’t use foul language when speaking to a lady.” Szoch added, “Killing innocent unborn children isn’t health care; neither is drugging women without their knowledge and against their will.” 

She continued, “Attorney General Liz Murrill is an American hero who stands for women and defends the most innocent and most vulnerable among us. Let’s pray that as Louisiana sues California and New York, Louisiana prevails and justice is served, and, for the sake of his soul, let’s pray Gavin Newsom gets to confession and changes his ways.”

Coeytaux has also been sued under a new law in Texas, which took effect in December, for mailing the abortion drug to a Lone Star State resident’s girlfriend, in violation of Texas law. “Under the law of Texas, a person who aids or abets another person’s self-managed abortion commits the crime of murder and can be sued for wrongful death,” the first-of-its-kind lawsuit reads. “In violation of these and many other laws, defendant Remy Coeytaux mailed abortion-inducing drugs into Texas that were used to murder Jerry Rodriguez’s unborn child.” Florida recently introduced similar legislation to Texas’s, empowering Floridians to sue out-of-state abortionists in an effort to circumvent blue states’ shield laws.