A Texas woman claims a US Marine got her pregnant and then secretly spiked her hot chocolate with abortion pills — ending her pregnancy without her consent after she refused his repeated demands to “get rid of it,” according to a federal lawsuit.
Liana Davis filed the wrongful death suit Monday, accusing Christopher Cooprider, 34, of dissolving at least 10 misoprostol pills into a drink he gave her at her Corpus Christi home on April 5 while she was eight weeks pregnant with his child, according to the lawsuit obtained by The Post.
Within 30 minutes of drinking the hot chocolate, Davis began “hemorrhaging and cramping,” while Cooprider allegedly fled the scene and stopped responding to texts, the suit — filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas — claimed.
“I am gushing blood. Please hurry,” Davis texted him around 12:30 a.m.
Instead, Davis’s disabled mother had to take an Uber to watch her three sleeping children while a neighbor rushed the bleeding woman to the hospital. Her unborn baby, whom she had already named Joy, did not survive, documents said.
The lawsuit also alleges Cooprider ordered the abortion pills without Davis’ knowledge or consent from Aid Access, an international online pill provider founded by Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. Both Aid Access and Gomperts were also named as defendants in the lawsuit.
The alleged drink spiking followed a months-long campaign by Cooprider, a Marine pilot in training who was temporarily stationed in Corpus Christi, to pressure Davis into an abortion after she told him she might be pregnant in late January, according to the suit.
“We’re not in love,” he texted her after the pregnancy was confirmed. “It would be messed up to bring a child into the world without both parents raising them,” he said, the suit claimed.
Cooprider continued to tell Davis to “get rid of it” after her pregnancy test came back positive — causing her stress.
“Every time you say ‘get rid of it,’ it’s like an electric shock,” she wrote, according to the lawsuit. “I literally feel like I’m going down the steepest hill on a roller coaster when I read that.”
Cooprider even brought abortion pills to Davis’ house several times to ask her to “kill” her unborn baby, the suit said. He would leave the pills behind, hoping Davis would change her mind, she alleged.
Despite several heated text exchanges, Cooprider failed to convince Davis to have the abortion. The Marine even threatened to testify against her in a custody battle for her three children with an ex-husband, Davis claimed.
By April, Cooprider appeared to change his tune, proposing that they have a “trust-building” night where they’d drink warm tea and reconnect.
Instead, three days later, he allegedly served her the poisoned hot cocoa. When Davis returned home from the hospital, she found the open box of abortion pills, which she handed over to Corpus Christi police.
Despite the allegations, Corpus Christi police said there is no active investigation into Cooprider, NBC reported.
The lawsuit seeks Cooprider, Aid Access, and Gomperts to pay undisclosed damages for the wrongful death of Davis’s unborn child.
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