On Wednesday, Texas lawmakers passed an alarming anti-abortion bill that will allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or provides abortion pills in or to the state for $100,000. The measure now goes to the desk of Governor Greg Abbott, who never met a piece of anti-abortion legislation he didn’t sign into law.

Texas already has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, prohibiting the procedure except in virtually nonexistent, narrowly defined medical emergencies. But abortion pills have continued to flow into the state anyway, allowing people to safely and effectively self-manage terminating their pregnancies in private. (The state’s overlapping bans explicitly exempt abortion seekers from prosecution.) In an attempt to stop mifepristone and misop

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