Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Abortion Drug Network for Illegally Shipping Pills to Texans

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Abortion Drug Network Aid Access for Illegally Shipping Pills Into the State

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Aid Access, an international abortion drug provider accused of illegally shipping abortion inducing medications into Texas.

The lawsuit, filed on February 24, 2026, names Aid Access GmbH and Aid Access B.V., both based in Austria and the Netherlands, along with California physician Dr. Remy Coeytaux and Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, who founded Aid Access in 2018.

Paxton's complaint alleges the defendants operate "an international abortion by mail enterprise that illegally ships abortion inducing drugs into Texas in open defiance of Texas law."

According to the complaint, Aid Access openly advertises on its website that it provides abortion services to all 50 U.S. states, including Texas, and ships abortion inducing drugs to Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, El Paso, and other Texas cities.

The organization claims to have facilitated more than 200,000 abortions nationwide since its founding.

Every unborn child is a life worth protecting, and Texas law reflects that fundamental truth.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said in his statement announcing the lawsuit.

The suit alleges Aid Access violates Texas's Human Life Protection Act, mailing prohibitions, and unlicensed medical practice laws. Texas law specifically prohibits anyone from mailing, transporting, delivering, prescribing, or providing an abortion inducing drug in any manner to or from any person or location in the state.

Paxton's office is asking a Galveston County judge for a temporary injunction that would prevent the defendants from providing medication to Texas residents and from practicing medicine in the state without a license.

The attorney general's office also cited a 2025 incident in Nueces County where abortion inducing drugs allegedly obtained from an out of state provider were used to poison a pregnant woman, resulting in the death of her unborn child.

In August 2025, Paxton issued cease and desist letters to Dr. Coeytaux in connection with his work with Aid Access. In January 2026, the attorney general announced a similar lawsuit against a Delaware based nurse practitioner.

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Paxton vowed that his office will "relentlessly enforce" Texas's pro life laws and hold accountable those who send abortion inducing drugs into the state.

The FDA had previously issued Aid Access a warning letter in 2019, calling on the organization to cease introducing unapproved drugs into U.S. commerce.

The Crusader's Opinion

Two hundred thousand abortions. That is not healthcare. That is an industrial scale operation designed to circumvent the laws of sovereign states and end innocent lives by mail. Aid Access does not care about Texas law, they do not care about the unborn, and they certainly do not care about the women they exploit through a screen from thousands of miles away in Austria and the Netherlands. When a foreign organization openly boasts about shipping death into American cities, it is not medicine. It is an attack on life itself. Ken Paxton is right to go after them with the full force of the law.

Take Action

• Contact the Texas Attorney General's office to voice your support for enforcing pro life laws: texasattorneygeneral.gov/contact-us or call (512) 463 2100
• Support pro life legal efforts by donating to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which fights for life in courts across America
• Donate to The Shepherd's Shield to support Christian advocacy and action worldwide
• Report illegal abortion drug shipments in Texas by contacting the AG's Consumer Protection Hotline at (800) 621 0508
• Support your local pregnancy resource center. Find one near you at Heartbeat International to help women choose life