A Texas woman is suing over the wrongful death of her baby after the man who impregnated her allegedly obtained pregnancy-ending pills on the abortion black market and used them to poison her and murder their unborn child.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, alleges Christopher Cooprider ended the life of his baby girl “Joy” and sent his pregnant neighbor Liana Davis to the hospital with “hemorrhaging” by lacing her hot chocolate with a dangerous combination of mifepristone and misoprostol.

The “Marine pilot in training” reportedly resorted to spiking Davis’ drink after his months-long attempt to deter her from keeping their child ultimately failed. As the complaint outlines, however, his alleged actions may put him and the head of the company that sold him the abortion pills on the hook for several violations of the Lone Star State and federal felony laws.

As the complaint notes, Cooprider and Aid Access Founder and Director Rebecca Gomperts allegedly flouted Texas’ pro-life statutes by aiding an illegal pill-induced abortion for Davis — especially without her knowledge or consent.

‘Beautiful and Loved’

Screenshots of text messages allegedly between Cooprider and Davis beginning on Jan. 31, 2025, purportedly show a pressure campaign on the mom-to-be to use the mifepristone and misoprostol combination to end her pregnancy.

Even before Davis confirmed she was with child, Cooprider reportedly insisted he would “like to get rid of it.” Despite Davis’ insistence that her baby would be “beautiful and loved and looked after,” text messages also reportedly show that Cooprider often referred to his unborn child as a “thing” and a “failure on multiple levels,” and expressed his desire to “abort this monstrosity of a situation.”

“I have never called the baby a mistake,” Davis reportedly replied. “It’s a terrible thing to call a human life.”

Cooprider reportedly pitched the popular, yet dangerous pill regimen to Davis as a “safe and reliable” option that can be “safely taken at home and without medical supervision.” He allegedly claimed the only “setbacks” to “FDA approved” chemical abortion could be “stomach pain, cramps, nausea, and bleeding,” despite studies showing the rate of serious or life-threatening complications such as hemorrhage, sepsis, and more after chemical abortion is 22 times higher than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims.

When Davis refused to budge, Cooprider reportedly resolved to order the abortion drugs himself — just two days after a test confirmed Davis’ pregnancy.

The lawsuit claims Cooprider obtained the abortion pill regimen from an overseas company called Aid Access, which charges $150 to illegally mail life-ending drugs to states with pro-life protections and prohibitions on abortion. Texans specifically, Aid Access claims, can receive an order of mifepristone and misoprostol by mail in less than 5 days as long as they fill out an order form.

The FDA label for Mifeprex warns that the drug regimen is only approved for use in “early pregnancy,” which it defines as 10 weeks of gestation or less. Aid Access, however, boasts the pregnancy-ending pills for women who are 14 weeks pregnant or less.

The Aid Access website’s front page insists that a pregnant woman, which it refers to as “pregnant person,” “must answer the questions [on the form] themselves.” Cooprider, however, allegedly obtained the mifepristone and misoprostol tablets without Davis’ consent. Exhibits nine and 10 in the complaint show pictures of abortion pill packages scripted to Cooprider.

When Davis, again, allegedly refused Cooprider’s attempt to “browbeat” her into a chemical abortion over text, the lawsuit claims “he repeatedly brought the drugs to Davis’s house when he came to visit.”

“Sometimes 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 complaint states. “Other times Cooprider would take the drugs with him when he returned to his house. And sometimes Cooprider split the difference, leaving the mifepristone with Davis while taking the misoprostol pills with him. All of this disturbed Ms. Davis, who disliked having Cooprider’s abortion pills in her home.”

By March, the lawsuit claims, “Cooprider became abusive and menacing toward Davis when she would not give in to his demands to abort.” In one message, he allegedly told Davis that “everything around you, everything you touch gets made worst [sic]” and threatened to testify against her in her current divorce and custody proceedings.

A Deadly Drink

As Davis approached her eighth week of pregnancy at the beginning of April, Cooprider’s tone shifted, and he asked her to “trust building night” involving a TV show and “warm relaxing tea.” Davis accepted because, according to the complaint, she hoped to “salvage something from a bad situation and increase the likelihood that her soon-to-be-born daughter would have at least some semblance of a relationship with her biological father.”

Just 30 minutes after consuming the hot chocolate Cooprider allegedly spiked, Davis reportedly “began hemorrhaging and cramping.” Cooprider allegedly pledged to pick up Davis’ 77-year-old disabled mother to watch her sleeping children so the pair could go to the emergency room together. Instead, the complaint claims Cooprider “vamoosed and stopped answering his phone or texts, leaving Davis to fend for herself.”

The lawsuit states that before Davis left for the hospital, she discovered Cooprider’s opened box of mifepristone pills with one “missing from its blister pack. Davis arrived at the emergency room after hitching a ride with another neighbor and allegedly gave the abortion pill evidence to local police, but, as the lawsuit states, was “unable to save her baby.”

“Baby Joy died at eight weeks LMP, murdered by her own father,” the complaint concludes.

Davis is asking the court to order both Cooprider and Gomperts to pay her “nominal, compensatory, and punitive damages,” but leaves the door open for other remedies.

Poisoning by abortion pill is not unheard of, even in pro-life states like Texas. In June, a Lone Star State man was arrested on a capital murder charge for allegedly spiking his girlfriend’s coffee shop order with mifepristone that ended the life of their unborn baby.

Nearly 70 percent of abortions are believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires.