A complaint has been filed in a South Texas federal court alleging a Marine murdered his unborn child by spiking the mother’s hot chocolate with abortion drugs.
The complaint formally commences a lawsuit against Aid Access—an organization that ships abortion pills into Texas—and Christopher Cooprider, a U.S. Marine. The mother is suing “to recover damages from Cooprider and Aid Access for the wrongful death of her unborn child.”
Included in the lawsuit is a claim for relief under Texas’ wrongful death statute, which “allows surviving parents to sue those who cause the death of an unborn child by a wrongful act, neglect, carelessness, unskillfulness, or default.”
The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division, by Attorney Jonathan Mitchell.
Described as a “pro-life superlawyer,” Mitchell previously served as solicitor general for Texas and devised the “novel enforcement mechanism in the Texas Heartbeat Act.”
Facts of the Case
According to the complaint, Cooprider—an Arizona resident—is a Marine pilot in training, stationed in Corpus Christi. In early 2025, Cooprider impregnated his neighbor, Ms. Davis.
“Ms. Davis learned that the baby would be a girl and named her Joy. She looked forward to giving birth and raising her daughter alongside her three children from a previous marriage,” reads the complaint.
Cooprider, however, had other plans. He purchased abortion pills from a company called Aid Access. The complaint claims that Aid Access is “a criminal organization that illegally ships abortion pills into Texas and other jurisdictions where abortion has been outlawed.”
Text messages show a pattern of Cooprider attempting to pressure Davis into taking the abortion pills despite her repeated refusals. At one point, Davis asked Cooprider to stop texting her, calling it “harassment.”
One such text from Cooprider stated, “Choosing to have that thing WILL mess with your life. It will take away and mess with your 3 current kids. Choosing to have it WILL mess up its life. It will be bad for you, your current kids, and that poor thing … It would be better off not being around.”
By April 2025, the filing states that “Cooprider had come to the realization that Ms. Davis was determined to give birth and would not budge in response to his badgering and bullying tactics.”
Mifepristone and misoprostol—the abortion-inducing drugs acquired by Cooprider—are only approved for abortions within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, and Davis was already at eight weeks.
Knowing this, Cooprider reached out to Davis on April 2, pitching a “trust building night.” He said he would make her some “warm relaxing tea” and they could catch up on a television series.
On the night of April 5, Cooprider visited Davis’ house as planned. Davis reportedly stepped outside to let her dog in while Cooprider was making them both hot chocolate which he had brought from his apartment. The two drank hot chocolate together while watching television.
Within 30 minutes of consuming the beverage, Davis began hemorrhaging and cramping. She sought help from Cooprider, who said he would pick up her 77-year-old mother, who lived within 10 minutes of Davis, to watch her three children while he took her to the emergency room.
However, Cooprider never showed up at her mother’s condominium (she was forced to take an Uber) and quit responding to Davis’ calls and messages. She realized Cooprider had deserted her when he texted “I’m sorry, I have to go to my flight tomorrow,” over 45 minutes after leaving.
At this time, Davis found evidence that Cooprider had left behind at her house, including an opened box of mifepristone he had purchased from Aid Access (labeled with Cooprider’s name) with the pill missing.
Additionally, there was an orange pill bottle containing two of the 12 misoprostol pills Cooprider had purchased, meaning 10 were missing. Davis reportedly brought this evidence with her to the emergency room—when a neighbor graciously offered her a ride—and turned it over to the Corpus Christi police.
Davis reportedly 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.”
Context
This is not the first case in which a man has tricked—or attempted to trick—the mother of his unborn child into taking an abortion drug.
For example, in 2014, a man was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison after tricking his fiancée into taking abortion pills that were labeled as antibiotics, killing the baby.
In 2018, a man was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for giving his girlfriend a drink that he had laced with an abortion drug. The woman did not consume the drink after she became suspicious of the powdery substance she had seen her boyfriend stirring into it. She had the substance tested, and it was found to be mifepristone, the same abortion drug used by Cooprider.
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