Courts and Reproductive Rights

States with abortion bans are increasingly moving to criminalize mailed abortion pills — Louisiana, Florida and Texas already ban mailing of pills and Louisiana has branded mifepristone a controlled dangerous substance, South Dakota recently made advertising, distributing or selling abortion pills a felony, and bills targeting mailed pills have cleared one chamber in Arizona, Indiana and South Carolina in 2026. The push comes as telehealth abortion use surges — in 2025 more women in the 13 total‑ban states obtained abortion pills via out‑of‑state telehealth than traveled for in‑person care — and several of those states have filed at least three separate federal lawsuits challenging FDA telehealth rules.