A woman in Texas, Liana Davis, has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her former partner, Christopher Cooprider, a 34-year-old U.S. Marine, spiked her drink with abortion pills without her knowledge.
According to the lawsuit, this happened on April 5, 2025, at her home in Corpus Christi. Davis was eight weeks pregnant at the time, and she says Cooprider secretly dissolved at least 10 misoprostol pills - a medication used to induce abortions into her hot chocolate. She began bleeding and cramping within 30 minutes. Her unborn baby, whom she had already named Joy, did not survive, documents said.
Davis says the problems started earlier in the year. When she told Cooprider about her pregnancy in January 2025, he reportedly didn’t take it well. Text messages show he told her things like, “We’re not in love,” and pressured her to “get rid of it.”
She says the emotional stress from his repeated demands was overwhelming like “an electric shock.”
On April 2, Cooprider suggested they have a “trust-building night.” He offered to bring over warm drinks and talk things through. But instead of rebuilding trust, Davis says he gave her a spiked hot chocolate on April 5.
Not long after, she texted him in a panic: “I am gushing blood. Please hurry.” But he didn’t respond. Davis’s disabled mother had to take an Uber to watch her kids while a neighbor rushed her to the hospital.
Later, she found an open box of abortion pills and a prescription bottle at her house. She turned them over to Corpus Christi police, but officials said there is no active investigation at the moment.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Texas and names:
Christopher Cooprider (the Marine)
Aid Access, the online company that allegedly provided the pill
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, who runs Aid Access
Davis is suing them for the wrongful death of her unborn child and for the trauma she endured. She is asking for compensation and also punitive damages (meant to punish wrongdoing).
Texas has some of the toughest abortion laws in the country. A law passed in 2021 bans abortion once a heartbeat is detected, and a 2022 law can penalize people who help others get abortions.
This lawsuit also uses an older federal law called the Comstock Act, which bans mailing abortion-related materials. It’s being used here to argue that Aid Access broke federal law by sending pills across state lines.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in Texas. In 2024, another man, Justin Banta, was charged with murder after allegedly slipping a different abortion pill (Plan C) into his girlfriend’s drink.
These kinds of cases highlight how complicated the legal system has become especially around reproductive rights, telemedicine, and state vs. federal law conflicts.
Women’s safety and consent: This case raises serious questions about bodily autonomy and the safety of women in personal relationships.
Legal limits of telemedicine: It may test whether companies like Aid Access, based overseas, can be held accountable under U.S. laws.
Abortion pill access and prosecution: The case may become a major legal precedent in the post-Roe era for how states like Texas treat these issues.
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