A Texas woman claims a U.S. Marine secretly laced her hot chocolate with at least 10 abortion pills, causing her to lose her pregnancy, but local police say they are not investigating.
According to NBC News, Liana Davis accused Christopher Cooprider of dissolving nearly a dozen abortion pills into hot cocoa he made for her on April 5. The lawsuit states that after giving her the drink, Cooprider left her home and stopped responding to her messages while she suffered heavy bleeding.
Texas law bans nearly all abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest and only limited protections for the mother’s life and health. It allows civil lawsuits against anyone who facilitates an abortion and recognizes “an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth” as a person under the law.
Court records include text exchanges between Davis and Cooprider starting Jan. 31, after Davis confirmed her pregnancy. Cooprider allegedly said he “would like to get rid of it” because they were “not in love” or together, claiming it would be “messed up to bring a child into the world without both parents raising them.” He told Davis he would order abortion pills online.
The conversations became increasingly hostile, with Cooprider referring to the baby as a “thing” and accusing Davis of having a “psycho mentality.” He allegedly threatened to testify against her in her divorce case to take custody of her other children and said he felt “trapped” by the pregnancy, wanting to “abort this monstrosity of a situation.”
On April 2, Cooprider’s tone changed, inviting Davis to a “trust building night” over “some warm relaxing tea.” At the time, Davis was eight weeks pregnant. Within 30 minutes of drinking the hot chocolate on April 5, she began hemorrhaging and experiencing severe cramps. She wanted to go to the emergency room but hesitated to leave her children asleep upstairs. Cooprider claimed he would pick up her mother to drive her to the hospital but instead left and stopped replying.
In one message, Davis pleaded, “I am gushing blood. Please hurry.” Her mother eventually took an Uber to her home around 1 a.m. Cooprider said he had to leave because of a flight. The fetus did not survive. When Davis returned home, she found an open box of pills and a pill bottle, which she said she gave to Corpus Christi police.
“The Corpus Christi Police Department said there are no active investigations involving Cooprider,” according to the report.
Under Texas law, providing a prohibited abortion can bring criminal charges, ranging from a first- to second-degree felony depending on whether it results in the fetus’s death, as well as civil penalties of at least $100,000.
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