Texas Woman’s Wrongful-Death Suit Claims Man Spiked Her Tea with Abortion Pill
A Texas woman claims in a new wrongful-death lawsuit that a romantic partner secretly spiked her drink with an abortion pill, ending a pregnancy with a baby she was eager and excited to raise. Plaintiff Liana Davis of Corpus Christi, Texas, alleges in the lawsuit that she became pregnant during a relationship with her next-door neighbor, Christopher Cooprider, who quickly began urging -- and later demanding -- that she have an abortion to “get rid of it,” according to a text listed in the suit. Cooprider is a Marine pilot in training, the suit says.
Davis, however, stood firm in rejecting an abortion, texting him, “I can’t wait to hold that gorgeous baby,” and “babies aren’t mistakes,” the lawsuit states.
Eventually, when Cooprider realized Davis would not take the abortion pill regimen he had ordered through the mail, he secretly slipped the medication into her drink, the lawsuit says. That night, she began hemorrhaging.
“Christopher Cooprider murdered Liana Davis’s unborn child by secretly dissolving abortion pills into a hot beverage that he had prepared and tricking Davis into drinking it,” the suit says. “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.”
Davis is seeking damages, alleging his actions violated multiple Texas laws, including informed-consent requirements, the state’s ban on abortion pills, and wrongful-death statutes.
Even before Davis took a pregnancy test, Cooprider was urging her to have an abortion, according to the lawsuit.
“I would like to get rid of it if the test is positive,” he allegedly said in a text.
“So you’re one of those ‘conservative till it happens to my mistress’ guys,” she texted back.
He allegedly texted, “We are not in love. We are not together.”
Although Davis said she had no interest in an abortion, Cooprider ordered an abortion pill regimen from Aid Access, a company that mails abortion-inducing drugs. The company is named in the suit.
When Cooprider encouraged her to take the pills, she texted him, “This little person did nothing to harm you, they are not dangerous, they are not some infectious agent that you have to stay far away from.”
Cooprider allegedly later texted her, “If that thing ever gets born, it would be a failure on multiple levels.”
Approximately two months after Davis tested positive- and after multiple back-and-forths in which he was unable to persuade her—he allegedly offered to get together for a “trust-building night” where he would “make us some warm, relaxing tea.” Davis agreed to the proposal, believing they could repair the damage in their relationship.
“Ms. Davis thought that the proposed ‘trust building night’ could 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,” the suit says.
That night, April 5, 2025, Cooprider allegedly slipped the first step in the abortion regimen into her hot chocolate as she was tending to her dog.
“Shortly before midnight, and within 30 minutes of consuming the tainted drink, Ms. Davis began hemorrhaging and cramping,” the lawsuit says.
Cooprider allegedly promised to help by picking up Davis’ mother, who was disabled and unable to drive. The plan was for him to watch Davis’ children while he drove her to the emergency room. He left the apartment to get her mother but never came back, the suit says, and he never picked up Davis’ mother.
“By now Davis realized that Cooprider had poisoned her (and her baby) with the abortion pills that he had bought, and that he had abandoned her and lied to delay Davis from obtaining medical care that might save her unborn daughter,” the suit says.
Another neighbor took her to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save her baby.
“The wrongful-death statute allows surviving parents to sue those who cause the death of an unborn child by a wrongful act, neglect, carelessness, unskillfulness, or default,” the suit says. “Each of the defendants caused the death of Ms. Davis’s unborn child through their wrongful acts.”
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Originally published August 13, 2025.
