Republican MPs in Texas have opened a new front in their efforts to tighten the abortion, this time with a bill that will enable the drugs target cases to end pregnancy. Their proposal will also be targeted Shield law In other states who protect manufacturers and doctors who write abortion pills.
In Texas, it is already illegal to match or distribute this intentionally, carrying out or distributing drugs or distributing drugs. The state of Texas is also illegal for a licensed doctor in the state of Texas to determine the medicine of abortion.
Now between Already controversial Special legislative sessions, MPs have re -presented a bill that will allow the cases to target anyone, which makes, distributes or distributes abortion pills. The bill will allow people to falsely file a case of wrong death if the drug results in damage or death to a fetus or mother within a law of boundaries up to six years.
Bill sponsors, Texas State Sen Brian Hughes, a Republican, said, “These are bullets that are being directly reconciled to women in Texas, often without instructions, certainly without doctors, and without follow-up care.” Texas Tribune earlier this year“It is illegal in Texas, but is happening, and we have thus not able to protect women so far.”
World health organization They say A combination of bullets-muffioppystone and misoprostol-in the first trimester, without direct care of the health care provider, can be safely determined to women for self-administration at home.
Hughes first sponsored a state law, passed in 2021, Ban But six weeksOr when the “heartbeat of the fetus” is detected.
The new proposal, known as the Women and Child Protection Act, is expected to be heard in the committee in the state of Texas during Monday’s special session. During the most recent legislative session, an earlier version was stopped in the House.
The bill wants to root any challenge in the federal court, and it includes the language designed to protect the doctors that prescribe abortion drugs from states without restrictions.
“Texas tries to pay attention to the provision of nationwide safe, legal and inexpensive reproductive health care,” says Julie, former Executive Director of the abortion for telemedicine. “Telemedicine is a modern and effective way to provide abortion care.”
At the same time, former Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell of Texas, who led the push for the current abortion restrictions of the state, announced a case filed by a Texas woman, who accuses the child’s father that she was expecting an abortion medicine in her hot chocolate, which she lost her pregnancy.
Similar to the proposed law, this case targets Shield law In Other states For the protection of doctors providing abortion pills in terms of plaintiff. The lawsuit has been filed in the federal court and the name of a non -profit group is that the claims of the plaintiff helped the father to get medicine, Aid reachWhich is located in the Netherlands.
According to the civil trial, the father “received these drugs from the aid reach, a criminal organization illegally ships abortion pills in Texas and other courts where abortion has been declared illegal.”
Help access and father is not criminally charged.
On its website, Ed Access says that it facilitates more than 200,000 online abortion to women in the US since 2018. In some cases, Depends on the group The telemedicine shield law, such as California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Washington, to meet the orders and to mail them to recipients in the banned states.
Help access the founder Dr. Rebecca Gampters First Told CBS News This service is legal in all the courts in which it operates.
“I am from where I work, it is legal to write drugs. And so I will do so. And the pharmacy I refer to, allowing drugs, is allowed to match the drugs, on a doctor’s prescription, women. So (Texas Law) has no effects, what we do,” Gumperts said.
Help access and father did not respond to the filing until Monday morning.
Jonathan Mitchell refused to comment for the story.
Produced in partnership with Center for Investigative Reporting
Haley Oat contributed to this report.
