US EditionTexas lawmakers advance abortion pill restrictions
- On August 28, 2025, the Texas House passed House Bill 7, allowing private citizens to sue out-of-state providers who mail abortion pills to Texans.
- The bill follows Texas' 2021 abortion ban that uses citizen lawsuits to enforce the abortion ban after fetal activity is detected at six weeks.
- House Bill 7 targets makers and distributors of abortion medication containing mifepristone and misoprostol, which are FDA-approved and account for 63 percent of U.S. abortions.
- The bill includes $100,000 penalties for providers, limits lawsuits to exclude women receiving pills, and requires most damages be sent to charity unless brought by a patient or close relative.
- While supporters say the bill protects unborn children, opponents argue it creates a bounty-hunter system that intimidates legal distributors and endangers women's healthcare options in Texas.
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Texas advances bill allowing citizens to sue makers and distributors of abortion pills
Texas lawmakers are on track to pass one of the toughest laws aimed at reducing the use of abortion medication, one way people still have abortions in a state that has already banned them in clinics.
Texans are expected to soon be able to sue people or companies that send abortion pills to someone in the Republican-controlled state.
New attack on abortion 'will fuel fear' nationwide: expert
Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives on Thursday night advanced another anti-abortion bounty hunter bill, this one taking aim at medications mailed from states that support reproductive freedom so Texans can choose to end pregnancies.House Bill 7 passed 82-48 along party lines during Texas' second special legislative session of the year. The proposal from state Rep. Jeff Leach (R-67) still needs approval from the Senate—which previo…
New legal strategy tests men’s role in abortion disputes
As abortion restrictions shift across the country, a new legal strategy in Texas is putting the spotlight on the Y chromosome. Men, including husbands, boyfriends and ex-partners, are filing lawsuits over abortions obtained by their partners, aiming to challenge both the patients and the providers who assist them. State’s near-total ban sets the stage Abortion is illegal in Texas, with very limited exceptions such as when the procedure is necess…
Texas GOP Lawmakers Advance Bill to Expand Abortion Restrictions
Republican lawmakers in Texas have advanced a bill to expand abortion restrictions. On Thursday evening, the Texas House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of House Bill 7, which allows private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails or provides abortion medication to or from Texas. Plaintiffs winning their lawsuits would receive a cash bounty of at least $100,000. The bill now heads to Texas’s Republican-contro…
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