Woman sues abortion pill network after father of her unborn child kills baby with spiked drink – LifeSite

Tue Aug 12, 2025 – 3:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A woman filed a federal lawsuit against the father of her child and a foreign abortion drug network after her unborn baby was killed via a spiked drink.
Liana Davis alleges the father of her child, Christopher Cooprider, “murdered [her] unborn child by secretly dissolving abortion pills into a hot beverage that he had prepared and tricking Davis into drinking it.” Former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, a renowned pro-life litigator, is representing Davis.
“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,” the federal lawsuit, filed in Texas, alleges. “Ms. Davis sues to recover damages from Cooprider and Aid Access for the wrongful death of her unborn child,” her attorneys wrote.
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, the executive director of Aid Access, is also named as a defendant. Aid Access is legally incorporated in Austria, and Gomperts is a citizens of the Netherlands. She targets American citizens for abortion drugs.
Gomperts and Aid Access “purposefully and knowingly mailed abortion-inducing drugs into Texas in violation of state and federal law,” the lawsuit alleges.
Cooprider, a Marine in training who lived next door to Davis, “would constantly pressure Davis to kill their unborn child, while Davis consistently rebuffed his requests and made clear that she intended to give birth.”
The lawsuit includes text messages where Cooprider pressures Davis to get an abortion and discusses the abortion drugs he bought. Meanwhile, Davis referred positively to their preborn baby.
The filing explains:
On February 18, 2025, Cooprider brought the abortion pills to Davis’s house and asked her to kill the baby with the drugs that he had purchased. Davis refused and made clear to Cooprider that she had no intention of aborting. But Cooprider was undeterred, and 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. 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.
The lawsuit details all the subsequent times Cooprider would pressure Davis to have an abortion, mocking the preborn baby and saying that a child would be a “failure.”
Cooprider also repeated common pro-abortion talking points, telling Davis the baby would make life harder for her three other kids and berating her, even saying he would team up with Davis’ allegedly abusive ex-husband.
Cooprider, the lawsuit alleges, eventually tricked Davis into taking the drugs by putting misoprostol tablets into a hot chocolate drink after he had come over under the guises of healing the relationship.
The Marine then allegedly offered to take Davis to the emergency room when she began hemorrhaging and cramping. He said he would go pick up Davis’ mother, an elderly disabled woman who could not drive, so she could stay at home while the kids slept.
Instead, the lawsuit alleges, Cooprider “stopped answering his phone or texts, leaving Davis to fend for herself” and refused to help take her to the emergency room. Instead, she had to, while bleeding out, walk to a neighbor’s house and get a ride in the early morning hours.
“Defendants Cooprider, Aid Access, and Rebecca Gomperts are also guilty of felony murder,” the lawsuit concludes.
Pro-abortion politicians side with illegal abortion drug distributors
While the allegations are harrowing, many politicians have sided with illegal abortion drug distributors and support the free and unregulated distribution of dangerous chemical abortion drugs.
President Joe Biden’s administration, for example, ignored longstanding federal law and allowed for abortion drugs to be mailed across the country with minimal safeguards.
Meanwhile, Democratic governors have signed legislation and executive orders to shield abortionists from prosecution.
In New York, for example, leftist Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a “shield law” that prevents states like Texas from extraditing abortionists who ship drugs into the Lone Star State in violation of the law. A county official in New York, citing state law, is refusing to enforce a $100,000 fine and other penalties against Margaret Carpenter, who mailed drugs into the state.
Other states have rushed to prove their pro-abortion bona fides by signing similar laws to defend illegal abortions.
In fact, just days before this lawsuit was filed, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed legislation “to make it even harder for out-of-state law enforcement to stop Massachusetts physicians from acting across state lines to help other states’ residents get around restrictions on abortion and ‘gender transitions,” as reported by LifeSiteNews.
The law “bans state and local authorities from cooperating with federal or out-off-state officials on investigations pertaining to any ‘health’ services that are legal in Massachusetts,” LifeSiteNews reported.