Society / Texas Extremists Are Trying Everything to Block Abortion Medication Texas officials and activists are ramping up the fight against abortion pill access. On Wednesday, Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB 7, which seeks to stop Texas residents from receiving abortion pills by mail. In December, Attorney General Ken Paxton—a zealous anti-abortion official currently mired in an alleged infidelity scandal—sued Dr. Margaret Carpenter for violating Texas abortion law. In addition, the ever-litigious Jonathan F. Mitchell, who crafted the state abortion law’s private enforcement scheme, has teed up two separate lawsuits to combat the flow of abortion pills. Facing perennial state-led challenges to their existence, Texas abortion funds say they nevertheless “refuse to cave” to the “harmful and unconstitutional” legislation.