""This law goes against everything Texans value. It's anti-freedom, anti-privacy, and anti-family," Marc Hearron, Associate Litigation Director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Coeytaux, said in a statement. "But these lawmakers are relentless in their attempts to scare doctors and patients from prescribing and accessing abortion pills - exactly because they are so safe, effective, and widely used across the United States.""
""Texas passed House Bill 7 in September, which allows privates citizens to sue anyone who \"manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, or provides\" abortion medication for at least $100,000 in damages. Such laws are colloquially known as \"bounty hunter\" bills, as they encourage civilians to engage in vigilantism across state lines.""
""Not only is abortion legal in California, but the state has a shield law prohibiting states that have banned the care from punishing California providers and their patients. Signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2022, the law prevents the release of information or the arrest and extradition of someone based on another state's court orders, and prevents law enforcement from aiding other jurisdictions in their attempts to prosecute Californians.""
A Texas resident sued a California family physician under Texas House Bill 7, alleging the physician prescribed abortion pills to the plaintiff's supposed sexual partner and seeking an injunction and potential damages. House Bill 7 permits private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, or provides abortion medication, with statutory damages of at least $100,000. Advocates describe such measures as bounty-hunter style laws encouraging cross-state vigilantism. California law both permits abortion and includes a shield law signed in 2022 that bars extradition, release of information, and cooperation with out-of-state efforts to punish California providers or patients.
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