Texas has tightened its restrictions on abortion with the signing into law of a measure that bans the manufacture, distribution, and mailing of abortion drugs in the state.

Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 7 on 17 September. The 20-page statute makes it illegal for anyone to manufacture or distribute abortion-inducing drugs in Texas, or to mail, transport, deliver, prescribe, or provide them to or from any location in the state. The law applies to the two medications most commonly used to end pregnancies—mifepristone and misoprostol.