Father-to-be accused of lacing pregnant girlfriend’s drink with abortion pills prescribed in his name, killing unborn child

As new data suggests the abortion pill poses significant health risks to women, lax medical regulations have led to increased cases of coercing or tricking women into terminating their unborn children.

A recent lawsuit provides a sobering example.

In August, Liana Davis, 37, sued Christopher Cooprider, a 34-year-old Marine pilot in training at Corpus Christi, claiming he laced her hot chocolate with mifepristone and misoprostol, causing the April death of her eight-weeks-in-utero daughter, Joy. 

Davis, who reportedly told Cooprider she was pregnant with his child at the beginning of 2025, decided to keep the baby. Cooprider said he “would like to get rid of it” in a text to Davis Jan. 31. 

In the case filing, Davis included screenshots of text messages between the two, which show Cooprider’s continued pressure to terminate the pregnancy despite Davis’s preference.  

“It needs to be aborted and gone no matter what,” Cooprider texted Davis, according to the suit. “If that thing ever gets born it would be a failure on multiple levels.” 

On Feb. 6, Cooprider told Davis he had ordered the two drugs needed to terminate the pregnancy. He referenced the FDA approval guidelines. 

“They can be safely taken at home and without medical supervision. And without record,” Cooprider wrote. “It’s a safe and reliable 24–48-hour process. With minor setbacks like stomach pain, cramps, nausea, bleeding.” 

Cooprider attained the drugs through Aid Access, an American website that promises to send abortion pills “to your home,” the complaint also says. 

The drugs arrived under Cooprider’s name Feb. 11, and he reportedly brought them to Davis’s house repeatedly over a few weeks. Cooprider also allegedly texted Davis Feb. 18 to take her “M&Ms,” referencing the abortion pills. 

Finally, on April 5, Cooprider allegedly spiked a cup of hot chocolate he made Davis under the guise of arranging a relaxing evening. Within 30 minutes of ingestion, Davis started to cramp and hemorrhage. By the time a neighbor got Davis to the emergency room, it was too late: Baby Joy died at eight-weeks LMP on April 5. 

Pill bottles left at the home suggest Cooprider had mixed one mifepristone pill and 10 misoprostol pills into Davis’s drink, according to the suit. The proper dosage is four misoprostol pills, 24-48 hours after taking mifepristone, according to Planned Parenthood’s website.  

Last week, Cooprider filed a countersuit, claiming Davis’s allegations are false and timed with Texas’s recent passage of the Women and Child Protection Act.  

Davis’s case is not the first of its kind. In 2025 alone, at least four women claimed similar incidents of coerced or laced chemical abortions, and more stories continue to emerge.

One in four women describe their abortion as “unwanted or coerced,” according to data cited by LifeNews.