The Texas House has advanced a bill that would allow private citizens to sue prescribers, makers, and distributors of abortion pills inside and outside the state.

A revised version of Texas’s HB 7 passed the state legislature’s lower chamber in an 82-to-48 vote Thursday night during Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) second special session. It is now on its way to the Senate.

Under the bill, almost anyone can sue a distributor or manufacturer and receive at least $100,000 in damages if their lawsuit is successful. Texas women who take abortion medication to end a pregnancy cannot sue under the bill.

Texas hospitals, doctors who live and practice exclusively in the state, and anyone who manufactures or distributes abortion medication for use in treating a medical emergency, an ectopic pregnancy, mis

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