A Texas woman filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit alleging that a neighbor covertly slipped medication abortion into her hot chocolate. Text messages cited in the complaint assert that the next-door neighbor pressured her to have an abortion and threatened to testify in an ongoing custody battle with an allegedly abusive, soon-to-be ex-husband. Reproductive coercion is identified as a form of abuse and, if true, a criminal act. The plaintiff is represented by former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, noted for designing SB8 and for invoking the 1873 Comstock Law in anti-abortion legal strategies.
A Texas woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against a man she alleges covertly slipped medication abortion into her hot chocolate. According to text messages cited in the complaint, she claims that her next-door-neighbor pressured her to have an abortion that she did not want and threatened to testify against her in her ongoing custody battle with her allegedly abusive, soon-to-be ex-husband.
The plaintiff is represented by former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of SB8, Texas' notorious bounty-hunter abortion ban. Mitchell is an anti-abortion fanatic; in addition to conceptualizing SB8, he has also represented men in filing suits against their former partners for having an abortion. Mitchell has embraced using the Comstock Law, an 1873 law that made it a felony to share contraceptives, abortifacients and information about either across state lines or through the mail,
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