Overview

• Cease-and-desist letters dated Aug. 14 were sent to Plan C, Her Safe Harbor, and Dr. Rémy Coeytaux, accusing them of advertising, selling, or mailing abortion drugs to Texans.
• Paxton warned of investigations, lawsuits, and civil penalties of at least $100,000 per alleged violation while citing the 1873 Comstock Act’s ban on mailing abortion-related materials.
• Her Safe Harbor said it will not stop providing pills and reported more than 150 requests from Texans within hours of the letters becoming public.
• The enforcement push coincides with litigation that includes federal wrongful-death claims naming Coeytaux and earlier Texas suits against a New York doctor and a county clerk tied to shield-law protections.
• Researchers credit shield laws with expanding telehealth access, estimating 12,330 clinician-facilitated abortions per month by late 2024, as other Republican attorneys general pursue similar warnings.