Several years later, Rosie Jimenez, from McAllen, Texas, was unable to afford a legal abortion and was forced to resort to an unsafe procedure that resulted in a deadly infection. Jimenez was the first known woman in the United States to die as a result of the 1976 Hyde Amendment, which bars federal Medicaid funds from covering most abortions — but she was almost certainly not the last.Through the 1970s and ’80s, Texas Democrats controlled both houses of the State Legislature and most statewide offices. In the early ’90s, the state even had explicitly pro-choice leadership under a Democratic governor, Ann Richards (who, as it happens, was the mother of Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood).But since then, the state’s leaders have moved steadily to the right. Texas Republicans cemented their power after the 2010 Tea Party-led “red wave” that swept statehouses across the United States, and accelerated the party’s aggressive anti-abortion mission. In 2012, Gov. Rick Perry proclaimed he would try to “make abortion, at any stage, a thing of the past.”His party has spent the ensuing years working hard to make that vision a reality. Anti-choice conservatives in Texas have passed some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States, including a 24-hour waiting period requirement, restrictions on judicial bypass for minors seeking abortions, a ban on abortions after the 20th week of a pregnancy, a ban on public and private insurance coverage of abortions, a ban on abortions provided via telemedicine, restrictions on access to medication abortions, and a law banning the most common type of second-trimester abortion. The Texas G.O.P. has simultaneously decimated the state’s family planning network and has repeatedly attacked Planned Parenthood — giving other states a blueprint for how to undermine reproductive health.So it’s no surprise that at least 11 states have attempted to copy S.B. 8, including in many cases the law’s unusual enforcement mechanism, which has made it difficult to challenge it in the courts. Last week, the Idaho State Senate passed one such bill.When I think back on the past decade of abortion rights battles in Texas, one moment in particular stands out. It was 2013, and Wendy Davis, then a state senator, captured international attention by launching an 11-hour filibuster to protest a sweeping anti-abortion law. I will never forget feeling the granite of the Texas Capitol building reverberate as thousands of pro-choice Texans rallied inside and outside the Senate chamber.Ms. Davis’s filibuster stopped the law from passing that day, but a few weeks later, after many of the TV cameras had left, Republicans rubber-stamped the law, which by then was known as H.B. 2. Before the Supreme Court struck down much of the law in 2016, H.B. 2 shuttered about half of the abortion clinics in Texas, doing irreparable damage to the state’s reproductive health network.