Governor Abbott Signs HB 7
OUR STATEMENT
Yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas signed HB 7, enacting it into law starting December 3, 2025. This legislation allows private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, prescribes, or provides medication abortion pills in Texas or into Texas through the mail or by other means.
Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, ob/gyn in Texas and Board Chair with Physicians for Reproductive Health responds:
“Over the last two decades, members of the Texas legislature have made it clear that their disdain towards human rights and bodily autonomy has no bounds. Texas already has overlapping abortion bans that have been devastating maternal and child health in our state for the past four years. However, this public health disaster is not enough, Texas legislators have shown that they not only intend to ban abortion, but also that they have no limit in their will to shame, isolate, surveil, punish, and criminalize pregnant Texans.
“Banning abortion care in Texas was not enough; anti-abortion legislators want to do everything they can to isolate pregnant Texans from their support networks—to make those in The Friendship State afraid to help their friends and neighbors. What they don’t realize is that Texans are courageous, we are scrappy, we are creative, and we show up to care for each other.
“Rather than addressing the real problems facing everyday Texans, the Texas legislature has spent the past two special sessions advancing extremist ideology aimed at dividing our state and our beloved communities. Texans don’t want or need more laws policing people’s bodies, whether it’s which bathroom we use or how we get our health care. We need legislation that improves access to quality health care. We need legislation that protects our children from guns and floods and infrastructure collapse, not from toilets.
“While the legislature continues to obsess over novel ways to torture pregnant Texans and trans Texans, what I know to be true as a Texan is that we will not stop until Texas is a better state for everyone.”
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