In the years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision returned abortion law to the states, Texas has aggressively sought to end abortion in all but a few cases, even allowing private citizens to sue abortion providers.

These efforts, however, have been hampered by the accessibility of abortion pills, which account for nearly two-thirds of abortions nationwide and are being shipped into Texas by people in blue states like New York and Massachusetts.

This tension will ramp up in December, when legislation signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this month goes into effect. The law allows private citizens to sue anyone who makes or distributes the drugs commonly used to induce abortion — mifepristone and misoprostol — within the state, including by mail.

Abortion-rights supporters say t

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