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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hit abortion pill dealers accused of promoting and mailing abortion drugs to Lone Star State residents with cease and desist orders last week for their apparent violation of state and federal laws.
The letters single out the abortion dealers Plan C and Her Safe Harbor, as well as an “affiliate” of Aid Access named Remy Coeytaux for “promoting, selling, or facilitating the shipment” of the drug regimen responsible for most of the nation’s abortions, which is largely confirmed by the organizations themselves and by corporate media. The letters were apparently sent Aug. 14 but announced in a press release from Paxton’s office on Wednesday.
Paxton not only commanded the parties to “immediately cease” such activity in the state, but also noted failure to do so could result in “further legal action, lawsuits seeking injunctive relief, and civil penalties of no less than $100,000 per violation under Texas law.”
“Texas will not tolerate the murdering of innocent life through illegal drug trafficking,” Paxton confirmed. “These abortion drug organizations and radical activists are not above the law, and I have ordered the immediate end of this unlawful conduct. This is a flagrant violation of both state and federal laws, and we are going to do everything in our power to protect mothers and unborn babies.”
Paxton’s orders are part of the larger effort to preserve Texas’ pro-life status and punish offenders who flout the state’s prohibition on abortion of any kind beyond six weeks gestation. In the press release accompanying the cease and desist letters, Paxton noted that he decided to take legal action after “two tragic cases in Texas in which radical abortion activists and organizations facilitated men illegally purchasing abortion-inducing drugs.”
“Organizations like Plan C and Her Safe Harbor advertise abortion pills by mail and promise delivery to Texas within days, likely in violation of both the federal Comstock Act and multiple provisions of Texas law, including the Human Life Protection Act,” Paxton warned.
Plan C did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s request for comment on whether it would comply with Paxton. The Federalist also reached out to Aid Access and a Dr. Rémy Coeytaux, but did not receive an immediate response. Her Safe Harbor noted in a Substack post titled “Ken Paxton Is Coming for Her Safe Harbor” published on Thursday, however, that “we are not backing down.
In December, the Republican sued a New York doctor for prescribing a Texas woman an abortion pill that not only killed her unborn child but also sent her to the hospital with life-threatening complications.
Since that petition for injunctive relief was filed, multiple other abortion pill lawsuits have been filed in Texas. Earlier this month, a Texas woman sued Aid Access and her former neighbor over the wrongful death of her baby after the man who impregnated her allegedly slipped pregnancy-ending pills into her hot chocolate.
In one criminal case, an alleged U.S. Department of Justice employee was arrested on a capital murder charge after he was accused of poisoning his girlfriend with an abortion drug that caused the death of their preborn baby.
Other states have also taken action to curb the prevalence of mail-order mifepristone. In Missouri, Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued Planned Parenthood Federation of America for “endangering the lives of women and girls across the country” by claiming the abortion drug regimen is “safer” than Tylenol.
Corporate media and Democrats try to blame pro-life laws like Texas’ for the suffering and even death of women who ingested abortion pills. As Paxton has repeatedly noted, however, the people touting the popular and dangerous abortion drug are not above the law.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
