Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday sued an out-of-state provider of abortion-inducing pills and a California doctor under a new state law designed for abortion pill-related suits, weeks after a similar private suit was filed against the same doctor.
Aid Access is an nonprofit telehealth organization focused on providing abortion-inducing pills to women across the United States, including in places where abortions are illegal, like Texas. Paxton’s suit names the company, its founder Dr. Rebecca Gomperts and Dr. Remy Coeytaux of California as part of a “growing network of out-of-state abortion traffickers that deliberately target Texas residents.”
Filed in Galveston County District Court, the suit cites new statutes in the state’s health and safety code created by House Bill 7, which bars the creation and distribution of abortion-inducing drugs in Texas. The law, which went into effect Dec. 4, allows private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails or provides abortion medication to or from the state for up to $100,000.
