Texas has not banned abortion pills entirely, and the Supreme Court has previously upheld access to those medications when parties have sued the Food and Drug Administration. A ban stalled in the Texas House earlier this year.

A county clerk in New York has been sued by the attorney general in Texas for refusing to certify a court judgment against a New York City doctor accused of sending abortion pills to the state. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been trying to get New York courts to enforce a $113,

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday asked a court to make a New York county enforce a $100,000 judgment against a doctor for sending abortion pills to Texas, taking an unprecedented interstate conflict to court.