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New York Times
2 days ago
- Health
- New York Times
Woman Claims Marine Laced Her Drink With Abortion Pills
A Texas woman accused a U.S. Marine in a lawsuit on Monday of lacing her drink with abortion pills, terminating her pregnancy against her wishes. The woman, Liana Davis, 37, claims that Christopher Cooprider, 34, a U.S. Marine Corps Captain from Arizona who she says impregnated her, secretly dissolved 10 pills of misoprostol, a drug used in medical abortions, in a hot chocolate he made for her on April 5. She made the accusation in a civil complaint filed in a federal court in Texas.. Shortly after drinking the beverage, the complaint says, Ms. Davis began bleeding and went to the hospital, where she lost her pregnancy. The lawsuit also names Aid Access, a major seller of abortion pills online, as a defendant. Ms. Davis said in the lawsuit that Mr. Cooprider used Aid Access to obtain the pills. The suit named the founder of Aid Access, the Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, as a third defendant. Mr. Cooprider, a flight student with the U.S. Marines in Corpus Christi, Texas, declined to comment on the lawsuit or say if he had a lawyer. The U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement that it was aware of a civil lawsuit involving one of its aviation students but that no additional information was available. In a statement, Dr. Gomperts pointed to Aid Access's role in providing 'essential, lifesaving health care' for vulnerable women. Ms. Davis became pregnant by Mr. Cooprider in early 2025, the lawsuit claims. Text messages included in the lawsuit and said to be from Ms. Davis to Mr. Cooprider describe the pregnancy as 'unplanned.' In one message she called herself Mr. Cooprider's 'mistress.' The lawsuit says that Ms. Davis has three children with her husband, with whom she was in divorce proceedings. According to the messages, Mr. Cooprider told Ms. Davis that he wanted her to have an abortion, even before she had confirmed her pregnancy with a test. Ms. Davis texted Mr. Cooprider on Jan. 31, 2025, for his thoughts on her possible pregnancy, and he responded, 'Get rid of it,' the lawsuit said. Mr. Cooprider added that the two were not in love or a couple, and that bringing a child into the world would be 'messed up,' according to the lawsuit. On Feb. 3, Mr. Cooprider sent a text message saying that if the pregnancy test was 'positive then we need to schedule a clinic visit and get an abortion pill asap,' according to the complaint. On Feb. 5, Mr. Cooprider texted Ms. Davis and said he was going to order abortion pills for her, according to the complaint, a step it said Ms. Davis opposed. On Feb. 6, Mr. Cooprider purchased pills from Aid Access, according to the lawsuit. 'I'm not OK with you buying something like that w/o my permission,' Ms. Davis wrote him, according to the complaint. Mr. Cooprider brought the pills to Ms. Davis's home and repeatedly asked her to take them, according to the lawsuit. Pictures included in the lawsuit show two containers of abortion drugs labeled 'Chris Cooprider.' The text exchanges grew more heated over several weeks, then took an abrupt turn. In early April, the lawsuit says, Mr. Cooprider texted Ms. Davis to propose a 'trust building night' where he would make them 'warm relaxing tea.' Mr. Cooprider went to Ms. Davis's home on April 5, where he made her a hot chocolate, according to the lawsuit. Ms. Davis was eight weeks pregnant at the time, the lawsuit said. According to the lawsuit, she began hemorrhaging and cramping within 30 minutes of drinking the beverage. Mr. Cooprider said he would drive to get Ms. Davis's mother, who lived nearby, the lawsuit said. The plan was that she would mind Ms. Davis's three children, and Mr. Cooprider could then drive Ms. Davis to the emergency room. But after leaving to get Ms. Davis's mother around 12:10 a.m., Mr. Cooprider stopped responding to calls and texts, and did not pick her up, according to the lawsuit. Screenshots of text messages included in the lawsuit show Ms. Davis repeatedly texting Mr. Cooprider, including one sent at 12:34 a.m. saying: 'I'm gushing blood. Please hurry.' Ms. Davis sent her mother money for an Uber just before 1 a.m., around the same time Mr. Cooprider responded to the text messages, the lawsuit said. He apologized and told her he had a flight in the morning, according to the complaint, and then stopped answering. Before leaving the house, Ms. Davis found the opened packets of pills, the lawsuit said. A neighbor drove Ms. Davis to a Bay Area hospital's emergency room, where she lost the pregnancy, according to the complaint. Ms. Davis brought the pill bottles with her to the emergency room and gave them to the Corpus Christi Police Department, according to the lawsuit. The Police Department said a detective investigated the allegations and shared the results with the Nueces County District Attorney's Office. 'After careful review, both agencies concluded that the elements of a crime could not be established, and the investigation was subsequently closed as unfounded,' Madeline Vaughn, a spokeswoman with the department, said in a statement. Ms. Davis's suit seeks punitive damages from the defendants. It did not give a figure, but said the amount was greater than $75,000. Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Health
- New York Post
Texas woman claims US Marine got her pregnant, then spiked her drink with abortion pills after she refused to ‘get rid of it': lawsuit
A Texas woman claims a US Marine got her pregnant and then secretly spiked her hot chocolate with abortion pills — ending her pregnancy without her consent after she refused his repeated demands to 'get rid of it,' according to a federal lawsuit. Liana Davis filed the wrongful death suit Monday, accusing Christopher Cooprider, 34, of dissolving at least 10 misoprostol pills into a drink he gave her at her Corpus Christi home on April 5 while she was eight weeks pregnant with his child, according to the lawsuit obtained by The Post. Liana Davis accused Christopher Cooprider of dissolving at least 10 misoprostol pills into a drink he made for her at her Corpus Christi home on April 5 while she was eight weeks pregnant with his child. Getty Images Advertisement Within 30 minutes of drinking the hot chocolate, Davis began 'hemorrhaging and cramping,' while Cooprider allegedly fled the scene and stopped responding to texts, the suit — filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas — claimed. 'I am gushing blood. Please hurry,' Davis texted him around 12:30 a.m. Instead, Davis's disabled mother had to take an Uber to watch her three sleeping children while a neighbor rushed the bleeding woman to the hospital. Her unborn baby, whom she had already named Joy, did not survive, documents said. Advertisement The lawsuit also alleges Cooprider ordered the abortion pills without Davis' knowledge or consent from Aid Access, an international online pill provider founded by Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. Both Aid Access and Gomperts were also named as defendants in the lawsuit. The alleged drink spiking followed a months-long campaign by Cooprider, a Marine pilot in training who was temporarily stationed in Corpus Christi, to pressure Davis into an abortion after she told him she might be pregnant in late January, according to the suit. 'We're not in love,' he texted her after the pregnancy was confirmed. 'It would be messed up to bring a child into the world without both parents raising them,' he said, the suit claimed. Cooprider continued to tell David to 'get rid of it' after her pregnancy test came back positive — causing her stress. Advertisement 'Every time you say 'get rid of it,' it's like an electric shock,' she wrote, according to the lawsuit. 'I literally feel like I'm going down the steepest hill on a roller coaster when I read that.' The lawsuit also alleges Cooprider ordered the abortion pills without Davis' knowledge or consent from Aid Access, an international online pill provider founded by Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. AP Cooprider even brought abortion pills to Davis' house several times to ask her to 'kill' her unborn baby, the suit said. He would leave the pills behind, hoping Davis would change her mind, she alleged. Despite several heated text exchanges, Cooprider failed to convince Davis to have the abortion. The Marine even threatened to testify against her in a custody battle for her three children with an ex-husband, Davis claimed. Advertisement By April, Cooprider appeared to change his tune, proposing that they have a 'trust-building' night where they'd drink warm tea and reconnect. Instead, three days later, he allegedly served her the poisoned hot cocoa. When Davis returned home from the hospital, she found the open box of abortion pills, which she handed over to Corpus Christi police. Despite the allegations, Corpus Christi police said there is no active investigation into Cooprider, NBC reported. The lawsuit seeks Cooprider, Aid Access, and Gomperts to pay undisclosed damages for the wrongful death of Davis's unborn child.
Global News
4 days ago
- Health
- Global News
Texas woman sues U.S. marine who allegedly spiked her drink with abortion pills
A Texas woman is suing a man she says spiked her drink with almost a dozen abortion pills without her consent, and the organization that supplied them. The woman, Liana Davis of Corpus Christi, Texas, filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday, claiming that Christopher Cooprider, her neighbour and a U.S. marine stationed in the city, impregnated her and then dosed her with 10 abortion pills after she rebuffed his repeated requests to end the pregnancy. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleges that Cooprider obtained drugs from Aid Access, a non-profit organization run by a Dutch physician, Rebecca Gomperts, that sends abortion medication by mail to the United States and globally. Davis's lawyer argued that the non-profit 'purposely and knowingly mailed abortion-inducing drugs into Texas in violation of state and federal law.' Story continues below advertisement The Aid Access website says it can legally provide abortion pills by mail to all 50 U.S. states by working with abortion providers in shield law states. According to KFF, an independent source for health policy research in the U.S., shield law states such as New York, Massachusetts, and California, where abortion is legal, protect abortion providers operating in those jurisdictions from prosecution by states where abortion is banned. For example, a doctor in New York could mail abortion pills to a patient in Texas and would be protected by the New York shield laws, even if Texas law says their actions are illegal. Davis claims that after contesting Cooprider's pleas to 'get rid of ' the baby, on April 5, he laced a hot chocolate with abortion pills following several months of heated back and forth about the fate of the unborn child. 1:02 Pregnant Georgia woman declared brain dead taken off life support after baby delivered A series of text message exchanges beginning on Jan. 31 — before Davis took a positive pregnancy test — included in the court filing shows Davis's response to Cooprider's abortion request: 'Jesus, I thought you were conservative,' she wrote. Story continues below advertisement 'So you're one of those 'conservative until it happens to your own mistress guys,'' she added. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'We are not in love, we are not together, would be messed up to bring a child into the world without both parents raising them,' Cooprider said, the lawsuit states. On Feb. 3, he reiterated those sentiments, requesting that she abort the pregnancy if the test was positive. 'If it's positive, we need to schedule a clinic visit and get an abortion pill asap,' the exchange continued; 'excuse me?' Davis replied. According to the lawsuit, Davis found out she was pregnant on Feb. 4. Upon learning this, Cooprider reiterated his desire for her to 'get rid of' the baby. In response, Davis asked him to use different phrasing, saying, 'Every time you say 'get rid of it' it's like an electric shock,' the suit says. Further messages allegedly show Cooprider proceeding to order abortion pills online from Aid Access and instructing Davis to take them, a process she claims he kick-started without her consent. 'Well, YEAH, I am not okay with u buying something like that w/o my permission. It is not a benign purchase,' Davis wrote on Feb. 6, according to the court filing. Story continues below advertisement On Feb. 11, the lawsuit says Cooprider informed Davis that the pills had arrived. In the weeks that followed, Cooprider made repeated efforts in person and over text to convince Davis to abort the child, court documents show. She claims that on several occasions he came to her house with the pills and purposefully left them behind in the hopes she would take them of her own volition, a tactic Davis says she found 'disturbing.' The abortion pill regimen requires the pregnant person to take two different pills 24-48 hours apart. In a text message on Feb. 18, he allegedly wrote: 'Want you to practice some positive reinforcement. At the beginning of every hour, say out loud, 'I am going to be good and safe after taking the M&M's.'' (M&Ms referring to Mifepristone and Misoprostol – the combination of abortion pills Cooprider had ordered). Davis continued to rebuke Cooprider, accusing him of having a selfish attitude after he said there were 'zero pros' for him in the situation, the lawsuit says. On March 5, he agreed to attend an ultrasound appointment scheduled for March 25. In the weeks that followed, Davis and Cooprider shared increasingly contentious texts; the lawsuit alleges that neither would budge on their position. During that time, Davis claims that Cooprider referred to the unborn baby as a 'thing' and a 'mistake,' while she reiterated that she was capable of raising the child alongside her three children from a previous marriage. The suit says Cooprider accused Davis of having a 'psycho mentality' and threatened to contact her ex, with whom she was allegedly embroiled in legal proceedings. Story continues below advertisement Davis had accused her former partner of physically and emotionally abusing their children. The lawsuit says she had confided in Cooprider about her soon-to-be ex-husband on numerous occasions. By April, Davis, now eight weeks pregnant, claims that Cooprider was aware that he was running out of time to convince her to take the pills, which were only effective up until the 10-week mark. According to the lawsuit, on April 2, Cooprider asked Davis to hang out and watch television, painting the arrangement as a 'trust-building night,' text messages show. Davis claims this led her to believe he had accepted her decision to have the child, and that she saw it as a sign that there was an opportunity for the baby to have a relationship with their father. On the night of April 5, Cooprider came to Davis' home with a hot chocolate mix, claiming that warm beverages had been helping him to sleep at night, and offered to make one for her. While mixing the drink and when Davis had stepped out with her dog, she claims Cooprider laced the hot chocolate with the abortion pills, adding that he also made himself a cup. About 30 minutes later, Davis says she began hemorrhaging and cramping and knew she needed to seek medical attention, but could not leave her three children who were sleeping upstairs, the suit says. The pair decided that Cooprider would pick up Davis' mother, who lived close by, so she could take care of the children while Cooprider took Davis to the hospital. Story continues below advertisement But after Cooprider left the house, Davis claims he stopped responding to messages and calls, and that she soon realized he had spiked the hot chocolate with the abortion pills. After calling her mother an Uber to her home and returning from the hospital, Davis said she found the open box of pills and a pill bottle, which she handed to the Corpus Christi police, according to the lawsuit. The Corpus Christi Police Department did not respond to Global News' request for comment, but told NBC News that there are no active investigations involving Cooprider The Marine Corps did not respond to a request for comment.
Axios
4 days ago
- Health
- Axios
Texas woman claiming she was tricked into abortion sues pill provider
A Texas woman sued a prominent abortion pill supplier and a former sexual partner, alleging he laced a drink with medication that he obtained from the service, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court. The big picture: Anti-abortion attorneys general have targeted telemedicine service providers that send abortion pills to patients with the protection of "shield laws," like Aid Access, the Austrian-based group named in the lawsuit. The woman is represented by former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, a prominent anti-abortion attorney. He previously has represented men who wanted to bring legal actions against people who facilitated their partners' abortion, per The Washington Post. Driving the news: The wrongful-death suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleges that the man who impregnated the woman laced a hot chocolate he prepared for her with abortion pills he obtained from Aid Access, ending her pregnancy. The woman argued in the complaint that the nonprofit and its founder were criminally responsible for the man's alleged violations of Texas code because "they knowingly aided his provision of abortion-inducing drugs to a pregnant woman." It also alleges the organization violated federal law by delivering the medication via the mail. It cites U.S. law that bans the mailing of materials deemed "obscene, lewd, lascivious," such as those related to abortion. "Performing or assisting an illegal abortion in Texas is an act of murder," the lawsuit reads. Zoom out: Aid Access, which did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment, says on its website that it has facilitated over 200,000 "online abortions" to women in the U.S. since it was founded in 2018. Despite years of bans and restrictions on reproductive care, the number of abortions in the U.S. continued to rise in 2024, Axios' April Rubin reported. Texas had the country's highest number of medication abortions via telehealth under shield law protections. State of play: Texas law bans abortion in nearly all cases — with exceptions for when the mother's life or a major bodily function is at risk. The lawsuit comes as a GOP lawmaker in the Lone Star State is reintroducing legislation that would allow lawsuits targeting the use of medication to end pregnancies, CBS News reported. That proposal, per CBS, also takes aim at shield laws that safeguard clinicians offering telehealth abortion care to patients in states with restrictions. Flashback: Texas has emerged as a hub for legal challenges to abortion pills. Last month, a Texas man sued a California doctor who allegedly mailed his girlfriend abortion pills. And earlier this year, a Texas judge ordered a doctor to pay a penalty of more than $100,000 and stop prescribing and sending abortion pills to patients in Texas under New York's shield law. But a New York county clerk has refused to file judgment against the doctor, citing the New York state shield law, prompting legal action from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Health
- Washington Post
Woman sues abortion pill supplier, says ex tricked her into ending pregnancy
A Texas woman is suing a key group that provides abortion pills by mail and a former sexual partner, who she alleges terminated her pregnancy by lacing her drink with medication he obtained from the group. In the complaint, filed Monday in Texas federal court by a prominent antiabortion attorney, the woman alleges that her ex-partner bought the pills from Aid Access, a nonprofit based in Europe, then pressured her to take them for weeks in the spring, even though she told him she did not want an abortion.
