The California doctor is one of multiple healthcare providers targeted by the Texas Attorney General in an intimidation campaign designed to chill abortion access

02.25.2026 (PRESS RELEASE) — Yesterday a California doctor and others were sued by the Texas Attorney General for allegedly providing telehealth abortion services to Texans. The suit also names nonprofit Aid Access and its founder Rebecca Gomperts. In a separate lawsuit, the California doctor is being sued by a private citizen under Texas’s “bounty hunter” law, which states that any person can sue another person for allegedly providing abortion pills into Texas.  

“Texas Attorney General Paxton is taking his anti-abortion crusade outside the state to come after doctors well beyond its borders,” said Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “Texans need the full range of reproductive healthcare, not a draconian abortion ban and harassing lawsuits seeking to enforce it.”  

The Texas Attorney General has also taken legal action against New York doctor Margaret Carpenter, Delaware nurse practitioner Debra Lynch, and Texas midwife Maria Rojas, who is being represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights in a baseless suit that was heard last week. This is part of a coordinated national effort to intimidate healthcare providers and make the abortion pill harder to access. The abortion pill is used in nearly two thirds of U.S. abortions and nearly one in four abortions were provided via telehealth, with clinicians writing online prescriptions and mail-order pharmacies sending the medication to patients.   

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