Texas AG sends cease-and-desist letters to three groups shipping abortion pill into state

Texas Attor­ney General Ken Paxton’s office has issued cease-and-desist letters to three “radical organizations,” demanding an “immediate end to the unlawful advertising, sale, and shipment of abortion-inducing drugs into the State of Texas.”

Key Takeaways:

• Texas AG Ken Paxton has sent cease-and-desist letters to Plan C, Her Safe Harbor, and California doctor Remy Coeytaux, who have been named as parties shipping abortion pills into the state of Texas.

• In a tweet, Paxton said the state “will not tolerate the murdering of innocent life through illegal drug trafficking.”

• The parties stand accused of breaking Texas laws as well as federal Comstock laws for shipping the drugs to Texas.

• The AG accuses Plan C of deceptive advertising in its claims of abortion pill safety.

• The letters threaten penalties for noncompliance, including the possibility of “civil penalties for violations of the Human Life Protection Act of not less than $100,000 per violation….”

The Details:

The AG’s letters, dated August 14, 2025, were addressed to Jill Smith at Plan C, Debra A. Lynch at Her Safe Harbor, and Remy Coeytaux (a doctor who claims to provide “integrative medicine” in his solo family practice). They were clear that “Performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion is prohibited in the State of Texas….”

The letters also noted that the federal “Comstock Act of 1873 prohibits the carriage in interstate commerce of ‘any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion.’ 18 U.S.C. § 1462. Similarly, it prohibits the mailing of any ‘article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion.’”

“This legal action follows two tragic cases in Texas in which radical abortion activists and organizations facilitated men illegally purchasing abortion-inducing drugs,” the AG’s press release stated.

• A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against virtual abortion pill business Aid Access, its founder Rebecca Gomperts, and a man accused of the forced chemical abortion that killed the child of a Texas woman against her will. That complaint, filed by Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell on behalf of the Plaintiff, alleges that the defendants violated the federal Comstock Act and committed “felony murder,” among other violations.

• A Texas man filed a separate federal lawsuit against a California abortionist for mailing abortion pills to someone who coerced his girlfriend to abort his children.

Zoom In:

More about the three organizations/individuals

Remy Coeytaux

Coeytaux is a California physician accused of shipping abortion drugs into Texas.

“You have been named in a recently filed lawsuit as having shipped abortion pills into the State of Texas via your affiliation with Aid Access,” the cease-and-desist letter reads in part. “In Rodriguez v. Coeytaux, the plaintiff alleges that the abortion pills which caused the death of two preborn children were obtained from Aid Access via an order prescribed by you…. This conduct violates multiple state and federal laws.”

Aid Access has continued to mail abortion pills across the U.S. in defiance of an FDA cease-and-desist order issued in 2019.

Her Safe Harbor

This business is a Delaware abortion pill dispensary.

“The Austin-American Statesman reported that you have been prescribing and shipping abortion drugs in quantities that would facilitate up to 162 abortions per week, including to Texas residents,” the cease-and-desist letter stated. “You are quoted as confirming that your organization, Her Safe Harbor, is ‘shipping [abortion drugs] to Texas,’ including to locations in Tomball, Houston, Beaumont, Fulshear, and El Paso.”

“This conduct violates multiple state and federal laws,” it added.

“We’re mailing a lot to Texas,” Jay Lynch, who handles most of the packaging and postage for Her Safe Harbor, an abortion-drug-by-mail service spearheaded by his wife, told the media outlet.

“Everybody – Aid Access, ourselves, some of these other small groups – we are all shipping to Texas,” said Debra Lynch, who is a nurse practitioner. She reportedly “prescribes the pills via telehealth under Delaware law.”

Although the FDA has only approved the abortion pill mifepristone (200mg) to be used through 10 weeks gestation, the Her Safe Harbor website claims the regimen can be used “within the first 13 weeks” and that if you take the drugs when you are not pregnant, “it won’t harm your health.”

However, the unregulated abortion pill dispensary goes on to say that women taking abortion drugs should be “within an hour of help is essential in case of severe complications, such as excessive bleeding.” It also tells women that after the abortion they should “flush[] it down the toilet or wrap[] sanitary pads in plastic bags for safe disposal.”

Plan C

This business directs users to various abortion pill dispensaries.

“In a lawsuit filed this week, Plan C is named as having facilitated a man’s illegal purchase of abortion drugs from Aid Access, which he used to poison his girlfriend and kill their unborn child,” the cease-and-desist letter sent to Jill Smith at Plan C states.

As Live Action News has documented, the Plan C website advises women on ways to skirt state laws where online sales of the abortion pill are prohibited. Under a section entitled, “Creative ways to access pills,” the organization openly tells clients to use “mail forwarding” services and the U.S. Postal Service’s “general delivery” system to circumvent state restrictions.

Additionally, Plan C’s advice repeatedly suggests abortion pill clients lie about their true locations when contacting abortion pill providers.

The letter states:

In flagrant violation of both state and federal laws, the Plan C website advertises the sale of abortion pills by mail and solicits the ‘order[ing] [of] abortion pills ahead of time, just in case.’ The Plan C website suggests ordering through Aid Access, lists the price for pills obtained through Aid Access as ‘$150 or less,’ and promises delivery to Texas for pills ordered from Aid Access in ‘2-5 days.’

This conduct violates multiple state and federal laws.

“Texas also prohibits false, misleading, or deceptive trade practices under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), Tex. Bus. & Comm. Code § 17.46,” the AG’s cease-and-desist letter to Plan C states.

“Plan C’s website advertises that ‘[a]bortion pills are very safe’ and ‘[t]he chance of serious complications . . . is
very low.’ But a recent study found that “real-world insurance claims data for 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions’ shows ‘a serious adverse event rate of 10.93 percent,'” the letter to Plan C reads.

The letter adds that the Texas Attorney General may seek “civil penalties for violations of the DTPA of up to $10,000 per violation” if the actions are not immediately halted.

The Bottom Line:

The three cease-and-desist letters are clear that a failure to comply will provoke “a formal investigation” where the Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit against them for “injunctive relief and civil penalties.”

If the AG finds any violations of Texas’s abortion laws committed by these “radical organizations,” the letters say they will be “prosecuted to the fullest extent permitted by law.” In addition, the AG “may seek civil penalties for violations of the Human Life Protection Act of not less than $100,000 per violation…”

The letter recipients have 14 days to respond in writing.

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