‘Not a benign purchase’: Major online abortion provider hit with wrongful death lawsuit
A major online abortion provider was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday.
A Texas man used abortion pills obtained from Aid Access to spike a drink he made for the mother of his unborn child, killing the baby and sending the mother to the emergency room, the lawsuit alleges.
“Christopher Cooprider murdered Liana Davis’s unborn child by secretly dissolving abortion pills into a hot beverage that he had prepared and tricking Davis into drinking it,” the lawsuit states. “Cooprider obtained these drugs from Aid Access, a criminal organization that illegally ships abortion pills into Texas and other jurisdictions where abortion has been outlawed.”
Aid Access, the organization’s founder Dr. Rebecca Gomperts and Cooprider are all named as defendants.
A series of text messages included in the lawsuit show Cooprider pressuring Davis into an abortion, which she repeatedly pushes back against.
“Well YEAH I’m not ok with u buying something like that w/o my permission,” Davis wrote. “It’s not a benign purchase.”
Cooprider ordered the pills from Aid Access in his name and received them on Feb. 11, 2025, photos included in the lawsuit show.
Aid Access was one of five organizations that supplied pills without confirming pregnancy or requiring a conversation with a doctor in a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The group has facilitated “over 200,000 online abortions to women in the USA since its start in 2018,” according to the website.
Aid Access did not respond to a request for comment.
Although Davis made it clear she had “no intention of aborting,” Cooprider “would leave the drugs behind at her house after he left, in the apparent hope that Davis might change her mind and ingest the pills on her own initiative,” the lawsuit alleges.
After realizing Davis was serious about keeping the baby, Cooprider proposed a “trust building night” where he would make “some warm relaxing tea.” He slipped abortion pills into her hot chocolate on the evening of April 5, 2025, according to the lawsuit.
When Davis began “hemorrhaging and cramping” within 30 minutes of consuming the drink, Cooprider promised to pick up her mother to come watch Davis’ three kids while she went to the emergency room. Cooprider left, did not pick up her mother and did not return.
“By now Davis realized that Cooprider had poisoned her (and her baby) with the abortion pills that he had bought, and that he had abandoned her and lied to delay Davis from obtaining medical care that might save her unborn daughter,” the lawsuit states.
Over an hour after Cooprider left, Davis told him she was at the hospital. He did not text back, according to the lawsuit.
Another Texas man, Justin Anthony Banta, was arrested on capital murder charges in June after allegedly spiking his girlfriend’s drink with the abortion pill.
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