Governor Gavin Newsom is standing his ground, with the support of other state officials, against the extradition of a Sonoma County doctor for sending abortion pills through the mail to a patient in Louisiana where they're illegal, citing a California telemedicine abortion protection law.

As SFist reported last week, officials in Louisiana are pushing California to allow Dr. Rémy Coeytaux, a Stanford-trained doctor in the Sonoma County town of Healdsburg, to face charges for “criminal abortion” in violation of Louisiana law. As KRON4 reports, the violation carries a penalty of one to 50 years of hard labor. Louisiana was the first in the country to classify abortion pills as “controlled dangerous substances,” even though they're considered very safe, per KRON4.

Per KRON4, Louisiana officials, who were able to locate Coeytaux through the tracking number on the package containing the pills, determined that the woman obtained them through an Austria-based company called AidAccess.

As KQED reports, Newsom is refusing to send Coeytaux to Louisiana, emphasizing that California enacted a set of laws geared toward protecting abortion providers from out-of-state legal action. Per KQED, Louisiana officials reportedly doxxed Coeytaux by posting his personal information online, potentially endangering his life.

“Louisiana’s request is denied,” Newsom wrote in a statement, per KRON4. “My position on this has been clear since 2022: We will not allow extremist politicians from other states to reach into California and try to punish doctors based on allegations that they provided reproductive health care services.”

“Not today. Not ever,” he concluded. “We will never be complicit with Trump’s war on women.”

“I am proud that our Governor is standing up to attempts to drag this country backward by criminalizing health care and threatening doctors for doing their jobs,” said East Bay Assemblymember Mia Bonta in a statement. “California saw this grim reality coming, and our law is clear: our state will not comply with extreme, bad-faith extradition requests designed to punish medical professionals for  providing lawful, essential reproductive care.”

“Abortion is health care, protected under California’s Constitution, and California will stand firmly in defense of patients, providers, and that fundamental truth,” Bonta continued.

“California is a safe haven for reproductive rights,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta wrote on X Wednesday. “We will not be bullied by anti-abortion states.”

Image: ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND - APRIL 13: In this photo illustration, a bottle of Misoprostol tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. A Massachusetts appeals court temporarily blocked a Texas-based federal judge’s ruling that suspended the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen to induce an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy in combination with the drug Misoprostol. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

This post has been updated with a revised quote from Assemblymember Mia Bonta, per her press release.

Previously: Louisiana Officials Have Indicted a Bay Area Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills

• There were 25 traffic deaths in 2025 compared to 43 in 2024, largely due to recent initiatives, including daylighting and speed cameras. Nineteen of last year’s deaths occurred on the city’s Vision Zero High Injury Network, and 16 of the 25 deaths were pedestrians. [SFGate]
• Instagram users reported receiving mysterious password reset messages Thursday and Friday, either due to a glitch or a recent data breach of over 17.5 million users. Users should ignore the emails and reset their passwords directly through Instagram — be sure to enable two-factor authentication. [Piunika Web/Malwarebytes]

• A person was fatally shot on the 5400 block of Coliseum Way near the Oakland Flea Market around Noon Friday, marking Oakland’s sixth homicide of 2026. [NBC Bay Area]

National:

• A federal judge issued a temporary order preventing the Department of Health and Human Services from freezing $10 billion in social services funding to Democratic states, including California, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado, as the White House claims the freeze was to protect against “fraud.” [CBS News]
• As part of a campaign to dismantle landmark school desegregation orders, which officials say place an “unfair burden” on school districts, the Trump administration and Louisiana Republicans won a motion to dismiss a 1967 lawsuit ordering the DeSoto Parish to end its racially segregated school system. [Associated Press]
• Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik debuted its latest cover Friday featuring an image of Trump with oil oozing out of his nose in the shape of a Hitler mustache and wearing a Venezuela flag pin. [Huffington Post]

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Imagine being able to ride your bike through BART’s spooky 3.6 mile-long Transbay Tube. A lucky few workers got to do it during the construction of the tunnel 50 years ago. See the full-length version of this groovy ‘70s-era archival film on YouTube.

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Chris Hansen’s upcoming documentary Predators will investigate Roblox, the popular game-making tool accused of enabling the exploitation of underage users. The company is also being sued by the state of Louisiana.

On the heels of a report exposing Meta’s policy that allowed its chatbots to pursue children “romantically or sensually,” leading to an investigative probe by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, as reported by SFist, San Mateo-based Roblox is facing both a lawsuit by the attorney general of Louisiana and a documentary investigation.

As FandomWire reports, former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen announced he'll be pursuing the Roblox investigation through his online streaming network TruBlu after YouTuber Michael Schlep posted viral “predator-catching” videos, which led to six confirmed arrests and shed light on egregious negligence by the company.

As AV Club reports, Roblox has since begun retaliating against Schlep and other so-called vigilante users, banning and sending them cease and desist letters. The company also updated its Terms of Service to target vigilante groups. FandomWire notes that Schlep’s motivation for pursuing the case stems from his own experience as an underage victim of a prominent Roblox developer.

As the Washington Post reports, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Thursday that she filed a lawsuit against the company, saying its lack of safety protocols make it “the perfect place for pedophiles.”

According to the Washington Post, the lawsuit states that sexually explicit content, such as “Escape to Epstein Island,” “Diddy Party,” and “Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe,” is hosted alongside the many age-appropriate activities on the platform.

“Due to Roblox’s lack of safety protocols, it endangers the safety of the children of Louisiana. Roblox is overrun with harmful content and child predators because it prioritizes user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety,” Murrill said in a statement. “Every parent should be aware of the clear and present danger posed to their children by Roblox so they can prevent the unthinkable from ever happening in their own home.”

Murrill’s statement says that a recent report exposed 3,334 members who “openly traded child pornography and solicited sexual acts from minors.” The statement also highlights a recent arrest in Livingston Parish, Louisiana involving a suspect who used voice-altering technology to make his voice sound like a young girl, allegedly to lure users off the platform.

The Washington Post adds that in May, a 28-year-old Maryland man pleaded guilty to producing child pornography after prosecutors say he coerced more than 100 underage girls on Roblox and other popular platforms into sending him sexually explicit content of themselves.

The Post writes that there have also been several other lawsuits filed against Roblox in recent months. A California father whose 10-year-old daughter was allegedly kidnapped by a 27-year-old man on the platform filed a suit last week, and the law firm Dolman Law Group has filed lawsuits on behalf of families in Texas, Michigan, Georgia, and California, alleging their children were sexually exploited while playing Roblox.

“It’s basically open season for sex predators on this app,” Attorney General Murrill said at a news conference on Thursday, as reported by outlet WBRZ. “At the end of the day, I think Roblox should be shut down.”

Additionally, Representative Ro Khanna (D-California) launched a petition pressuring Roblox to increase its safety protocols. “Roblox is at a crossroads,” the petition states. “We’re not going to stand by while kids are exploited online, and powerful tech companies can do more to stop it.”

Image: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Samsung

Previously: Meta’s Policy Allowing Bots to Engage in ‘Romantic or Sensual’ Talk With Kids Prompts Senate Investigation

A dimwitted justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, recently denied an interracial couple a marriage license. Why? Like we need to tell you why. But we will: said justice of peace, Keith Bardwell, explained to Associated Press his reasoning, "'I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way ... I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Gee, where have we heard that paper-thin argument before?

Anyway, Beth Humphrey, 30, and Terence McKay, 32, the couple who was denied the license, said that they "will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint."