Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent cease-and-desist letters to three abortion pill providers, demanding they stop advertising, selling, and mailing abortion drugs into the Lone Star State.

“Texas will not tolerate the murdering of innocent life through illegal drug trafficking,” Paxton said in a statement. “These abortion drug organizations and radical activists are not above the law, and I have ordered the immediate end of this unlawful conduct. This is a flagrant violation of both state and federal laws, and we are going to do everything in our power to protect mothers and unborn babies.”

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The Republican attorney general warned Plan C, Her Safe Harbor, and Aid Access affiliate Dr. Remy Coeytaux to immediately cease and desist from engaging in the unlawful activities. Each letter was dated Aug. 14.

Plan C is a website that provides information on how to obtain abortion pills, and Her Safe Harbor is an organization that provides abortions through telemedicine. Meanwhile, Coeytaux is a physician who has been accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Texan.

If they do not comply, Paxton threatened to launch investigations and impose $100,000 civil penalties for each violation of Texas’s near-total abortion ban.

The Comstock Act may also be violated, according to Paxton’s office.

Enacted in 1873, the federal law bans the mailing of “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” materials, such as contraceptives. Although its enforcement has been limited over time, the Comstock Act has resurfaced in debates about the legality of mailing abortion pills — an issue that Texas has been aggressively fighting.

Paxton says Plan C is responsible for facilitating a man’s purchase of abortion-inducing drugs from Aid Access. The man then used the drugs to terminate his unborn child. In the process, the mother was sent to the hospital. Plan C was named in a lawsuit filed last week.

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Coeytaux was also named in a recent lawsuit for his role in the wrongful deaths of two unborn children. The drugs in this case were obtained from Aid Access on a prescription from Coeytaux. The defendant faces up to $75,000 in damages.

Her Safe Harbor frequently prescribes and mails abortion pills that are then used to facilitate 162 abortions per week in all states, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The organization admitted to shipping abortion drugs to different cities in Texas, including El Paso.