Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an abortion pill company and two physicians Feb. 25, alleging they illegally trafficked abortion pills into the state in violation of Texas’ pro-life law.
Paxon’s office stated in a press release that the lawsuit targets entities that advertise and distribute abortion pills in Texas despite the law, resulting in thousands of deaths and “devastating consequences for Texas families.”
The suit names Aid Access, an international abortion pill provider, Remy Coeytaux, a California doctor, and Rebecca Gomperts, an abortionist based in the Netherlands and Austria and the founder and director of Aid Access. As Zeale News previously reported, a Texas father sued Coeytaux in July 2025 over the deaths of his two unborn children, whom he said were chemically aborted without his consent.
Under Texas law, abortions may only be performed by licensed physicians in situations where the mother’s health or life is endangered. Paxton’s suit argues that Aid Access and the physicians are mailing the drugs into the state “in open defiance of Texas law” and seeks to hold them accountable for the harm the pills have caused.
“Every unborn child is a life worth protecting, and Texas law reflects that fundamental truth. Radicals sending abortion-inducing drugs into our state will be held accountable for ending innocent life,” Paxton stated in the release. “My office will defend the lives of the unborn and relentlessly enforce our state’s pro-life laws against Aid Access and other radicals like it.”
Paxton’s suit against the abortion pill providers is the latest of several he has filed against out-of-state abortionists. As Zeale News previously reported, he sued Delaware nurse practitioner Debra Lynch in January for mailing abortion pills into the state and practicing medicine in the state without a physician’s license. In December 2024, he sued New York physician Margaret Carpenter over pills she mailed into Texas; however, Carpenter was protected by New York’s shield law.