Texas' Newest Abortion Law Allows $100,000 Rewards for Snitching on Pregnant Women
(AND THE WAR ON WOMEN CONTINUES APACE!!! FUCK THE GODDAMNED, WOMAN-HATING, MISOGYNIST, CHRISTOFASCIST, THEOCRATIC, ASSHOLES!!)
Texas’ Newest Abortion Law Allows $100,000 Rewards for Snitching on Pregnant Women
PUBLISHED 9/12/2025 by Bonnie Fuller | UPDATED 9/18/2025 at 9:19 A.M. PT
Updated Sept. 18 at 9:10 a.m. PT: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 7 into law on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. The new law, which takes effect on Dec. 4, 2025, allows private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes or mails abortion medication to Texas residents.
“HB 7 invites anyone—including those with no connection at all to an abortion patient—to bring a complaint, which really incentivizes harassing lawsuits from anti-abortion activists,” says Liz Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas–Austin. “This could spur an outpouring of fishing expeditions against anyone who is advocating for care in Texas or suspected of sending pills into the state. It’s a pretty preposterous and troubling bill.” That said, advocates say Texas’ new bounty-style restrictions are unlikely to stop abortion pills from reaching patients. “It’s possible that some of the providers may step back, but access is still going to be possible by mail in Texas, regardless of this attempt to instill fear in people,” said Elisa Wells, co-founder and access director at Plan C, which researches and shares information about how people are accessing abortion pills in the United States. “The more crazy stuff that the Texas legislature does around this to try and block access, the more visible the option of pills by mail becomes.”
Abortion rights demonstrators march outside of the Harris County Courthouse during the Women’s Wave march in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 8, 2022. (Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images)
Originally published by Courier Texas.
Texas Republicans recently passed another law to prevent abortions—one that rewards family members with at least $100,000 for snitching. House Bill 7 passed the Texas Legislature and Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign it by Sept. 24, which is the deadline for him to take action on it. It would allow private citizens to file lawsuits against any person intending to help obtain abortion pills in the state, anyone distributing abortion pills or any company shipping abortion pills into Texas. If the lawsuit is successful, they’d receive at least $100,000 for their efforts. There’s a caveat: If the private citizen is not related to a pregnant woman seeking abortion pills, they would only receive $10,000, with $90,000 going to the charity of their choice, if they win their lawsuit. If the private citizen is related to a pregnant woman seeking abortion pills, however, they’d get to keep the full $100,000. These private citizens do not need to prove that pills were shipped or distributed. Instead, they only need to demonstrate an intent to provide pills—for example, a mother researching abortion pills for her pregnant daughter could be sued by a disapproving family member, even if no pills were ever obtained, said state Sen. Carol Alvarado (D) during legislative debate on the bill.
Texas Sen. Carol Alvarado on the Senate floor Aug. 22, 2025. (Sara Diggins / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)
The person or company sued—in other words, the defendant—would be responsible for paying the $100,000, plaintiff’s attorney fees and court costs, and any other fees associated with the lawsuit. These could be out-of-state doctors or even a pregnant woman’s best friend who steered her to an abortion care website. The bill is designed to cut pregnant Texas women off from being able to order FDA-approved pills that safely end early pregnancies, prescribed through telemedicine appointments with physicians in states where abortion is legal.Democrats vehemently opposed the bill.Texas already has multiple abortion ban bills, including Senate Bill 8, passed in 2021, which offers bounty hunters $10,000 if they successfully sue a medical provider who performs an illegal abortion in the state.
However, despite laws which ban abortion from conception in Texas, women have been able to access highly effective abortion pills through the mail.
As of 2023, 8,000 pregnant women a month in abortion ban states have self-managed their abortions in the privacy of their homes, receiving a two-pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol by mail.With HB 7, that’s what Texas Republicans aim to stop. And since husbands, parents and siblings of a pregnant woman are most likely to know that she has been able to quietly use abortion pills, they’ll be encouraged by their state government to tell on her and sue for at least $100,000. Plus, in a dangerous twist for medical providers across the country, a woman who was pregnant and used abortion medications to end her pregnancy can actually turn around and sue her own provider in an attempt to get $100,000. “The point of this bill is to create enough fear of these lawsuits to stop physicians in states where abortion is legal from providing care to Texas women,” said Blake Rocap, legislative counsel for Avow, an abortion advocacy group in Texas.
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Texas state Sens. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat, and Bryan Hughes, a Republican, debate in the Senate chamber at the Texas Capitol on April 4, 2023, in Austin. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
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