3 Texas women sued for wrongful death after man claimed they helped his ex-wife get abortion medication

In Texas, three women are being sued for the wrongful death of a man who claims they helped his now ex-wife get abortion medication. This is yet another test of government injunctions as the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

In a lawsuit filed late Thursday in Galveston County, Marcus Silva alleges that assisting a self-abortion is tantamount to aiding and abetting murder. Silva is seeking $1 million in damages.

The name of the woman who took the drug in July – weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion that had been in place since 1973 – is not named in the lawsuit. Texas law protects women who have an abortion from prosecution.

Abortion rights groups condemned the lawsuit, calling it a scare tactic.

“This is an outrageous attempt to scare people away from abortion treatment and intimidate those who support their friends, family and community in times of need,” Autumn Katz, a lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said Friday. “The extremists behind this lawsuit are distorting the law and the judicial system by threatening and harassing people who seek the help they need and those who help them.”

Silva is represented by Jonathan Mitchell, a former Texas Solicitor General who helped introduce one of the state’s abortion bans, attorneys from the conservative legal group of the Thomas More Society and Rep. Briscoe Kane, a Republican from Houston.

“Anyone who distributes or manufactures abortion pills will be consigned to oblivion,” Cain’s lawyers said in a statement.

According to the lawsuit, the pill maker will also be named as a defendant once it is identified in the discovery process.

The lawsuit alleges that it contains text messages from women discussing how to get a drug that can cause an abortion and how to help a pregnant woman plan her medication.

Lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions have sprung up in the US as clinics have closed in Republican-dominated states. Earlier this week in Texas, which has one of the strictest bans in the country, banning the procedure in almost all cases except for medical emergencies, five women said they were denied an abortion even when the pregnancy was life-threatening. sued the state.

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