{"id":43117,"date":"2025-08-11T17:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/texas-bill-would-allow-lawsuits-over-shipping-abortion-pills\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:28:27","slug":"texas-bill-would-allow-lawsuits-over-shipping-abortion-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/texas-bill-would-allow-lawsuits-over-shipping-abortion-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas bill would allow lawsuits over shipping abortion pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Republican lawmakers in Texas have opened a new front in their efforts to crack down on abortion, this time with a bill that would enable lawsuits targeting the use of medication to terminate pregnancies. Their proposal would also take aim at <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/abortion-law-bans-us-americans-online-abortion-pills-medication-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shield laws<\/a><\/span> in other states that protect manufacturers and the doctors who prescribe abortion pills.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, it is already illegal to knowingly mail, carry or deliver abortion-inducing drugs. It is also illegal for a doctor not licensed in the state of Texas to prescribe abortion medication.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the midst of an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-democratic-legislators-flee-state-to-protest-gops-redistricting-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">already controversial<\/a><\/span> special legislative session, lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would allow lawsuits to target anyone who manufactures, mails, delivers, prescribes or distributes abortion pills. The bill would also permit people to file a wrongful death lawsuit if the medication results in harm or death of a fetus or the mother, within a statute of limitations up to six years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the pills that are being mailed into Texas directly to women, often without instructions, certainly without doctors as before, and without follow-up care after,&#8221; the bill&#8217;s sponsor, Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/04\/29\/texas-senate-abortion-pill-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Tribune earlier this year<\/a>. &#8220;This is illegal in Texas, but is taking place, and we&#8217;ve thus far not been able to protect women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">says<\/a> the pills \u2014 a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol \u2014 can be safely prescribed for women to self-administer at home, without the direct supervision of a health care provider, in the first trimester.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hughes previously sponsored a state law, passed in 2021, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/texas-senate-unanimously-approves-changes-to-clarify-abortion-bans-medical-exceptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">banning abortions<\/a><\/span> at <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/grieving-husband-says-reckless-texas-abortion-law-led-to-pregnant-wifes-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">six weeks<\/a><\/span>, or when a &#8220;fetal heartbeat&#8221; is detected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new proposal, known as the Women and Child Protection Act, is expected to be heard in committee in the Texas State Senate during Monday&#8217;s special session. An earlier version stalled in the House during the most recent legislative session.\t<\/p>\n<p>The bill also seeks to route any challenges into federal court, and includes language aimed at neutralizing the force of so-called shield laws in other states, designed to protect doctors who prescribe abortion medication from states without bans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texas continues to try to meddle in the provision of safe, legal and affordable reproductive health care nationwide,&#8221; says Julie Kay, the former executive director for the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine. &#8220;Telemedicine abortion is a modern and effective way to provide care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, who led the push for the state&#8217;s current abortion restrictions, has announced a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Texas woman who alleges the father of the child she was expecting slipped abortion medication into her hot chocolate, leading her to lose her pregnancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the proposed legislation, this lawsuit targets <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-sues-new-york-doctor-for-abortion-pills-telemedicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shield laws<\/a><\/span> in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2-years-after-dobbs-democratic-led-states-combat-abortion-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">other states<\/a><\/span> meant to protect physicians who provided the abortion pills in the plaintiff&#8217;s case. The lawsuit is filed in federal court and names a nonprofit group that the plaintiff claims helped the father obtain medication, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-abortion-law-european-doctor-rebecca-gomperts-pills\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Aid Access<\/a><\/span>, which is based in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>According to the civil lawsuit, the father &#8220;obtained these drugs from Aid Access, a criminal organization that illegally ships abortion pills into Texas and other jurisdictions where abortion has been outlawed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aid Access and the father have not been criminally charged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On its website, Aid Access says it has facilitated over 200,000 online abortions to women in the U.S. since 2018. In some cases, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/abortion-law-bans-us-americans-online-abortion-pills-medication-mifepristone\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the group relies on<\/a><\/span> telemedicine shield laws, such as ones enacted in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Washington, to fulfill orders and mail them to recipients in states with bans.<\/p>\n<p>Aid Access founder Dr. Rebecca Gomperts previously <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-abortion-law-european-doctor-rebecca-gomperts-pills\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">told CBS News<\/a><\/span> the service is legal in all the jurisdictions in which it operates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where I work from, it&#8217;s legal to prescribe the medications. And so I&#8217;ll do that. And the pharmacy that I refer to is allowed to mail the medicines, on a prescription of a doctor, to the women. So (the Texas law) has no impact on what we do,&#8221; Gomperts said.<\/p>\n<p>Aid Access and the father have not responded to the filing as of Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Mitchell declined to comment for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Produced in partnership with The Center for Investigative Reporting<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/haley-ott\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Haley  Ott<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<div class=\"component__heading-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"component__title\">The Battle Over Abortion<br \/>\n                          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/abortion\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--lg\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n                More<br \/>\n                <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"icon__caret-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                  <use xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"\/>\n                <\/svg><br \/>\n              <\/a><br \/>\n                      <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/sheena-samu\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Sheena  Samu<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Sheena Samu is a producer for the Investigative Unit at CBS News. 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