Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing more providers for allegedly shipping abortion medication into Texas.
Paxton鈥檚 office announced Tuesday against Aid Access, a nonprofit based in Austria, as well as two medical providers. The office asked a Galveston County judge for a temporary injunction that would prevent the defendants from providing medicine to Texas residents and practicing in the state without a license.
The suit alleges 鈥檚 founder, Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, and California physician Dr. Remy Coeytaux violated Texas鈥� abortion law by prescribing 鈥渁bortion-inducing drugs鈥� to Texans and shipping the medications into the state.
四虎影院 reached out to Aid Access for comment and did not receive a response.
Gomperts founded the organization in 2018 to 鈥渃reate social justice and improve the health status and human rights of women who do not have the possibility of accessing local abortion services.鈥�
The 鈥渁bortion pill鈥� refers to two medications 鈥� mifepristone and misoprostol 鈥� used to end an early pregnancy. Both are part of the most common type of 鈥渕edication induced鈥� abortion.
In the U.S., 9 in 10 abortions occur within the first trimester, according to the . The World Health Organization said in the , abortions can be safely self-managed outside of a health care facility 鈥渋n whole or in part.鈥� However, the Food and Drug Administration has only approved mifepristone pregnant.
Texas law requires abortions permitted by narrow exceptions to be performed by a physician licensed in the state. Paxton鈥檚 complaint said by providing abortion medication to Texas residents through a telehealth structure, Aid Access also violates the state law, which says people may not 鈥渕ail, transport, deliver, prescribe, or provide an abortion-inducing drug in any manner to or from any person or location鈥� in Texas.
In the complaint, Paxton鈥檚 office highlights a section on the Aid Access website that says the medications can be sent to 鈥淗ouston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin El Paso, or anywhere else in the State of Texas.鈥� The organization鈥檚 home page also includes a testimony from a 鈥渨oman who had an abortion in Texas.鈥�
鈥淭his process literally saved my life,鈥� the testimony reads. 鈥淚 could not proceed with this pregnancy due to medical reasons and due to my state鈥檚 stance on abortion they would have made me see it through. I would not have survived this pregnancy.鈥�
In a statement, Paxton said these services can have 鈥渄evastating consequences for Texas families.鈥� The AG鈥檚 office said a man in Nueces County allegedly used abortion-inducing medications to 鈥渟ecretly poison his girlfriend, resulting in the death of their unborn child.鈥�
鈥淒espite tragedies like this, Aid Access continues to market and distribute abortion drugs to Texas residents in open defiance of Texas law,鈥� the attorney general鈥檚 office said in the statement, but did not specify if that case is tied to Aid Access. The case was also cited Paxton released last month about a similar lawsuit he filed against the Delaware-based organization, Her Safe Harbor, and a nurse practitioner.
In August 2025, Paxton鈥檚 issued cease-and-desist letters in connection with his work with Aid Access. Paxton鈥檚 office also sent letters to two other organizations, including to and .
鈥淢y office will defend the lives of the unborn and relentlessly enforce our state鈥檚 pro-life laws against Aid Access and other radicals like it,鈥� Paxton said.
Abigail Ruhman is 四虎影院鈥檚 health reporter. Got a tip? Email Abigail at aruhman@kera.org.
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