Woman sues baby’s father and abortion pill business for wrongful death of preborn child

Editor’s Note, 8/12/25: Plaintiff’s name has been removed from this article at the Plaintiff’s request.

Virtual abortion pill business Aid Access, its founder Rebecca Gomperts, and Christopher Cooprider have been slapped with a wrongful death lawsuit for the forced chemical abortion that killed the child of a Texas woman against her will.

The complaint, filed by Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell on behalf of the Plaintiff, alleges that the defendants violated the federal Comstock Act and committed “felony murder,” among other violations.

“Christopher Cooprider murdered [the Plaintiff]’s unborn child by secretly dissolving abortion pills into a hot beverage that he had prepared and tricking [the Plaintiff] into drinking it,” the complaint alleges. “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 Plaintiff] sues to recover damages from Cooprider and Aid Access for the wrongful death of her unborn child.”

Key Takeaways:

• Christopher Cooprider allegedly obtained abortion pills through online business Aid Access, and when his girlfriend refused to take them to abort their child, he secretly administered them to her in a hot beverage.

• The Plaintiff was eight weeks pregnant, and has filed a wrongful death suit against Cooprider as well as Aid Access and its founder.

• The texts presented in the case reveal Cooprider’s insistence upon an abortion against the Plaintiff’s will, and his refusal to take “no” for an answer.

• The lawsuit alleges that the defendants committed felonies and broke federal law.

The Background:

In 2018, Gomperts founded Aid Access to utilize telemedicine for abortion. Until recently, the group’s abortion pills were likely shipped into the United Stated through India without Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.  In March of 2019, the FDA sent a warning letter to AidAccess.org to cease shipments of the pills to the U.S.

Things to Know

• The FDA has loosened safety regulations on the abortion pill mifepristone, enabling the drug to be ordered online and mailed across the United States.

• Pro-lifers have warned that removing in-person visits for dispensing the drug would lead to coercion.

• Unregulated abortion pill dispensaries and shield laws have placed profit above the care of women and protection of preborn children.

• State and federal laws must be enforced and upheld.

The Details:

In early 2025, the Plaintiff allegedly became pregnant with a baby girl she had named Joy. She has claimed in her wrongful death lawsuit that 34-year-old Christopher Cooprider, a Marine who lived next door to her in Corpus Christi, was the baby’s father.

According to the complaint:

Cooprider… wanted the baby dead — and he made that clear to [the Plaintiff] in no uncertain terms. This became a daily source of contention between Cooprider and [the Plaintiff], as Cooprider would constantly pressure [the Plaintiff] to kill their unborn child, while [the Plaintiff] consistently rebuffed his requests and made clear that she intended to give birth.

Cooprider is said to have repeatedly “told [the Plaintiff] that he wanted to kill her unborn child.”

Text message exhibits between the two indicate that Cooprider was committed to “schedule a clinic visit and get an abortion pill” before even confirming that the Plaintiff was pregnant, while she continued to resist.

“When Cooprider learned of the positive pregnancy test on February 4, 2025, he reiterated his desire for an abortion, but [the Plaintiff] rebuked him,” the lawsuit states.

Cooprider allegedly texted the Plaintiff claiming he located “an American website to get plan c pills from,” later texting, “Those FDA approved pills are on their way here.”

The text exhibits show that the Plaintiff made statements to Cooprider such as, “Some would view it as taking an innocent life,” “Stop right there,” and “Don’t buy anything.”

On February 11, 2025, “Cooprider texted [the Plaintiff] to inform her that the abortion drugs had arrived. [The Plaintiff] responded to his text with a thumbs-down emoji,” the lawsuit alleges.

“Cooprider showed [the Plaintiff] the receipt for his purchase on his cell phone. When [the Plaintiff] looked at the receipt on Cooprider’s phone, she saw that he had purchased the drugs from Aid Access. Aid Access is listed on the ‘plan C’ website that Cooprider mentioned in his earlier text as one of its ‘US-Based Online Clinics’ that sends abortion-inducing drugs into Texas.”

The Plaintiff took pictures and “The box containing the mifepristone contains a label indicating that the drugs were prescribed to ‘Chris Cooprider’ by someone described as ‘L.M. MD,'”the lawsuit states.

Aid Access is currently using U.S. abortion providers, likely protected under state shield laws, to fill prescriptions, and mail abortion drugs into states where it is illegal to do so.

The lawsuit alleges that “Cooprider brought the abortion pills to [the Plaintiff]’s house and asked her to kill the baby with the drugs that he had purchased,” but [the Plaintiff] “refused” and “made clear to Cooprider that she had no intention of aborting.”

According to the lawsuit, Cooprider allegedly continued to pressure the Plaintiff to “ingest the ‘M&M’s,'” a euphemism for the abortion drugs. The two continued to exchange text messages, with Cooprider allegedly agreeing to attend [the Plaintiff]’s ultrasound if “[the Plaintiff] promised to abort her unborn child.”

“If it’s confirmed alive, then it needs to be aborted[.] Without fail[.] That is best for everyone,” he wrote, based on the Exhibits.

He later referred to the preborn baby as a “thing,” the complaint alleges.

After the appointment, “Cooprider… doubled down on his insistence that the baby be killed,” states the lawsuit. “On March 26, 2025… Cooprider texted that he wanted to ‘abort this monstrosity[,]’” suggesting he was “trapped” by “[the Plaintiff]’s unwillingness to abort” and telling her “all our problems could be gone tomorrow!!”

Cooprider allegedly called the Plaintiff “delusional” for describing her baby as a blessing and refusing to submit to his demands.

After repeatedly demanding the Plaintiff comply with his abortion demand and ridiculing her for refusing, the wrongful death complaint alleges that “Finally, on April 1, 2025, Cooprider texted [the Plaintiff] and called her ‘the worst person’ for refusing to accommodate his demands for an abortion.”

By that time, the Plaintiff was eight weeks pregnant.

Abortion Pills Slipped Into “Hot Beverage”

The lawsuit states:

By April of 2025, Cooprider had come to the realization that [the Plaintiff] was determined to give birth and would not budge in response to his badgering and bullying tactics. Cooprider also knew that he was running out of time for [the Plaintiff] to abort with the drugs that he had purchased.

Cooprider knew that he had no chance of persuading [the Plaintiff] to travel out of state for a surgical abortion if the pregnancy lasted beyond the available time for a drug-induced abortion.

Cooprider’s only hope for an abortion was to trick [the Plaintiff] into ingesting the drugs that he had purchased from Aid Access. So Cooprider decided to murder the baby by mixing the abortion pills into a drink and giving it to [the Plaintiff].

Cooprider texted [the Plaintiff] and proposed to have a ‘trust building night’ where he would ‘make us some warm relaxing tea…’

On the night of April 5, 2025, the Plaintiff reportedly went to Cooprider’s house for the ‘trust building’ session where he, according to the complaint, “brought his own hot chocolate from his apartment” and made her the hot drink.

“Unbeknownst to [the Plaintiff], Cooprider was lacing her drink with the abortion pills that he had obtained from Aid Access.” The Plaintiff unknowingly drank the hot beverage.

“Shortly before midnight, and within 30 minutes of consuming the tainted drink, [the Plaintiff] began hemorrhaging and cramping,” the complaint states.

A series of texts reveal the Plaintiff’s desperate attempt to reach Cooprider, asking him pick up [her] mother but the texts went mostly unanswered. Then she asked Cooprider to take her to the emergency room.

“Cooprider texted back and curtly told [her] that he would not return or help her” because he needed to catch a flight the next day, according to the lawsuit.

She then “hobbled to a neighbor’s house and banged on her door to ask for a ride to the emergency room,” arriving at the ER at 1:24 a.m., where “doctors were unable to save her baby.”

“Baby Joy died at eight weeks LMP, murdered by her own father,” the wrongful death lawsuit alleges.

The Plaintiff claimed she saw the box of mifepristone, allegedly purchased by Cooprider from Aid Access, which was missing a “pill… from its blister pack.” The suit also alleges that “Cooprider mixed the remaining 10 misoprostol pills [in the bottle, pictured below] into the hot chocolate that he had prepared for [her] that night.”

Why It Matters:

The Plaintiff’s attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, noted in the lawsuit that defendants “Aid Access and Rebecca Gomperts” violated… Texas statute, which prohibits anyone other than a Texas-licensed physician to perform abortions” by “knowingly aiding an illegal self-managed abortion in Texas.”

In addition, Mitchell charged that “Defendants Aid Access and Rebecca Gomperts also violated chapter 245 by aiding an illegal self-managed abortion in Texas that took place outside a licensed abortion facility,” further claiming that all the defendants “violated 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–1462,” the federal Comstock Act, by “using the mails, an express company, a common carrier, or an interactive computer service to mail, carry or deliver abortion-inducing drugs.”

The lawsuit adds, “Articles 4512.1–4512.6 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes make abortion a felony criminal offense unless the life of the mother is endangered. Violations of articles 4512.1–4512.6 are punishable by two to five years imprisonment.” It also cites “Texas Penal Code § 1.07; id. at § 19.02; id. at § 19.06 (murder statute),” stating that Defendants Cooprider, Aid Access, and Rebecca Gomperts “committed murder” and were also guilty of felony murder because “they ‘intentionally and knowingly caused the death’ of [the Plaintiff]’s unborn child.”

This is not the only incident like this one; last month, a Texas man filed a separate federal lawsuit against a California abortionist for mailing abortion pills to someone who coerced his girlfriend to abort his children.

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