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.
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