Last month, an anti-abortion activist named Jana Pinson gave explosive testimony before a Texas Senate committee in support of HB7, a law that would vastly expand the state’s bounty-hunter abortion law, allowing lawsuits against anyone who facilitates a Texan getting abortion pills, including manufacturers, for up to $100,000. She described a lawsuit filed that very day by Liana Davis against Christopher Cooprider, accusing him of smuggling abortion pills he ordered online into Davis’s hot chocolate, terminating her pregnancy.

The case soon made international headlines for both its sordid details and its political valences. Like other red states that outlawed abortion as soon as the Supreme Court let them, Texas has been unable to stop tens of thousands of abortion pills — as many as

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