Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.051 · Subchapter B. PROTECTION FROM ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS
PROHIBITIONS RELATED TO ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or Section 171A.002, a person may not:
(1) manufacture or distribute an abortion-inducing drug in this state; or
(2) mail, transport, deliver, prescribe, or provide an abortion-inducing drug in any manner to or from any person or location in this state.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit:
(1) speech or conduct protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as made applicable to the states through the United States Supreme Court's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, or protected by Section 8, Article I, Texas Constitution;
(2) conduct a pregnant woman takes in the course of aborting or attempting to abort the woman's unborn child;
(3) the manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescribing, provision, or possession of an abortion-inducing drug solely for one or more of the purposes described by Section 171A.002(a)(9); or
(4) conduct a person takes under the direction of a federal agency, contractor, or employee to carry out a duty under federal law, if prohibiting that conduct would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 5 (H.B. 7), Sec. 2, eff. December 4, 2025.
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- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.101QUI TAM ACTION AUTHORIZED.Printed as Section 171A.051
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.102DEFENSES.Printed as Section 171A.051
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.104REMEDIES.Printed as Section 171A.051
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.151EFFECT OF CLAWBACK PROVISIONS.Printed as Section 171A.051
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