88R6630 JG/SCL-F
	By: Toth	H.B. No. 2690

Statutes affected:
Introduced: Penal Code 71.02 (Penal Code 71)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of
	abortion-inducing drugs and duties of Internet service providers;
	creating a criminal offense; authorizing a private civil right of
	action.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  This Act shall be known as the Women and Child
	Safety Act.
	SECTION 2.  The legislature finds that:
	(1)  human life begins at fertilization;
	(2)  abortion is a murderous act of violence that
	purposefully and knowingly terminates a human life in the womb;
	(3)  unborn human beings are entitled to the full and
	equal protection of the laws that prohibit violence against other
	human beings;
	(4)  the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs
	v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392 (U.S. June 24,
	2022), correctly overruled the lawless and unconstitutional
	pronouncements in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned
	Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992),
	which had invented and perpetuated a supposed constitutional right
	to abortion that cannot be found anywhere in the text of the United
	States Constitution;
	(5)  so-called abortion funds that operate in this
	state have been funding and otherwise aiding or abetting criminal
	abortions performed in violation of the laws of this state,
	exposing themselves and each of their donors to felony criminal
	prosecution;
	(6)  the abortion funds and their donors are not and
	never were protected by an injunction in any abortion-related case
	because they are not parties to those cases, and there has never
	been an injunction that restrains a state official from prosecuting
	abortion funds and their donors who aided or abetted abortions
	performed in violation of the laws of this state;
	(7)  the abortion funds and their donors are not and
	never were protected from criminal prosecution by Roe v. Wade, 410
	U.S. 113 (1973), because:
	(A)  there is no constitutional right to pay for
	another person's abortion;
	(B)  abortion funds and their donors lack
	third-party standing to assert the supposed constitutional rights
	of women seeking abortions; and
	(C)  any immunity from prosecution that the
	abortionist might have enjoyed on account of Roe does not preclude
	the imposition of accomplice liability on abortion funds and their
	donors;
	(8)  it is a federal crime to mail abortion-inducing
	drugs or to receive them in the mail, punishable by five years
	imprisonment, under 18 U.S.C. Section 1461;
	(9)  it is also a federal crime to transport
	abortion-inducing drugs in interstate or foreign commerce under 18
	U.S.C. Section 1462(c);
	(10)  these federal statutes are fully enforceable now
	that Roe has been overruled, and the statute of limitations for each
	of these crimes is five years;
	(11)  violations of 18 U.S.C. Sections 1461-1462 are
	predicate offenses under the federal Racketeer Influenced and
	Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1961 et seq.), which
	exposes distribution networks of abortion-inducing drugs and their
	donors to civil racketeering liability as well as criminal
	prosecution as a racketeering enterprise under federal law;
	(12)  the legislature calls on the attorney general and
	each district attorney in this state to investigate and prosecute
	abortion funds and each of their donors for aiding or abetting
	criminal abortion in this state in violation of the laws of this
	state; and
	(13)  the legislature calls on state and federal
	prosecutors in this state to investigate and prosecute every
	distribution network for abortion-inducing drugs under federal
	racketeering laws as well as 18 U.S.C. Sections 1461-1462.
	SECTION 3.  Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by adding Chapter 171A to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 171A. ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS AND FACILITATION OF
	ABORTION; ENFORCEMENT OF ABORTION LAWS
	SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS