Texas Is Warning Health Providers to Stop Mailing Abortion Pills to State

Texas officials are warning health care providers to stop sending abortion pills into the state or risk fines and prosecution, as Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks to halt the flow of medicine that’s circumventing local restrictions.

Prosecutors wrote to three providers last week, including a California doctor and a Delaware women’s health clinic, citing evidence that they had sent the drugs that can end a pregnancy to women in Texas. They could be fined $100,000 for every violation of the state’s anti-abortion laws, according to the letters dated Aug. 14 that were shared with reporters in an email from Paxton’s office.