AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas House today passed House Bill 7, which severely limits access to medication abortion by restricting the manufacture, prescription, and distribution of abortion-inducing drugs in Texas and out-of-state.
The bill’s bounty-hunting scheme incentivizes individuals to bring $100,000 lawsuits against anyone who makes, sends, or transports abortion medication, regardless of where they’re located. As with the state’s abortion ban, the pregnant person cannot be sued.
The bill is now headed to the Texas Senate.
The following quote can be attributed to Blair Wallace (she/her), policy and advocacy strategist on reproductive freedom at the ACLU of Texas:
“H.B. 7 exports Texas’ extreme abortion ban far beyond state borders. It will fuel fear among manufacturers and providers nationwide, while encouraging neighbors to police one another’s reproductive lives, further isolating pregnant Texans, and punishing the people who care for them. We believe in a Texas where people have the freedom to make decisions about our own bodies and futures.”
