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Texas + Louisiana Period Tracker Risk Scorecard

Period tracker risk analysis for Texas and Louisiana: abortion law status, data privacy protections, shield laws, and app-by-app risk scores.

Texas Risk Profile Texas presents a layered legal risk for period tracker users: criminal enforcement through the state and civil enforcement through private plaintiffs. Criminal Abortion Law Texas has a near total criminal abortion ban in effect since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022. Criminal penalties apply to providers, not to patients, under current Texas law. However, digital evidence establishing facts relevant to a criminal case can be sought through subpoena served on app companies or through warrants. The Civil Bounty System: A Different Risk Layer Texas's SB 8 (2021) and HB 7 (effective December 2025) created civil enforcement mechanisms that are distinct from criminal prosecution. HB 7 establishes a $100,000 minimum bounty for successful civil suits against anyone who "aided or abetted" a medication abortion in violation of Texas law. The first civil suit under HB 7 was filed in February 2026. The significance for data exposure: civil plaintiffs, unlike state prosecutors, can use civil discovery to seek relevant evidence. A civil plaintiff's lawyer can issue a subpoena to an app company during active litigation. The range of actors who can seek your data is br