This Texas Bill Would Systematically Silence Anyone Who Dares to Talk About Abortion Pills

[RandySF]

Texas State Representative Steve Toth recently introduced a bill that targets the most viable form of safe and effective abortion access today—medication abortion.

House Bill (HB) 2690 seeks to prevent the sale and distribution of abortion pills like Mifepristone and misoprostol, but it doesn’t stop there. By restricting access to certain information online, the bill seeks to prevent people from learning about abortion drugs, or even being aware of their existence. It would also systematically incentivize people and companies to silence anyone who wants to speak about abortion pills.

If passed, HB2690 would make it illegal to “provide information on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug.” This includes stopping people from making or maintaining websites or creating and distributing applications on the topic.

On top of going after online speakers who create and post content, the bill also targets internet service providers (ISPs)—companies like AT&T and Spectrum that provide access to the internet. HB 2690 would require ISPs to “make every reasonable and technologically feasible effort to block Internet access to information or material intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drug.”



https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/texas-bill-would-systematically-silence-anyone-who-dares-talk-about-abortion-pills

[Lovie777]

1. It seems to me that RWers are running scared.....................

even many of their base totally disagree with the tactics the RWers are using and backlash city is brewing.

[SharonClark]

5. They aren't running scared.

They’re running rampant over individual rights while they pass bill after bill that furthers their right-wing agenda.

[dlk]

2. The Texas Taliban...

Their efforts to marginalize females into servitude continue.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. insane

[Torchlight]

4. It's the kind of bill that, if passed, would put the Full Faith & Credit Clause to some

extreme tests. And there's a hint of me thinking that exposing our fundamental social contracts to extreme duress is part and parcel of a deceitful goal.

[Maeve]

6. Jinn don't go back into bottles that easily

[Phoenix61]

7. Good luck with that. I think the First Amendment

covers what I can put on the Internet.