A lawsuit alleges a Marine pilot trainee secretly slipped abortion drugs into his neighbor’s drink, after weeks of pressuring her to end the pregnancy.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Corpus Christi woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging her neighbor, a Marine pilot trainee, poisoned her with abortion pills after weeks of pressuring her to end her pregnancy.
In a complaint filed Aug. 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the woman accuses the Marine, Aid Access GmbH of Austria and its founder, Rebecca Gomperts, of illegally providing and administering abortion-inducing drugs in Texas.
The woman says she became pregnant with the Marine’s child early this year and learned in February she was expecting a girl, whom she named Joy. The lawsuit claims he told her he wanted the baby dead even before she confirmed the pregnancy.
On Jan. 31, before she had taken a test, he allegedly texted, “It’s better if it’s gone.” After she confirmed she was pregnant Feb. 4, he reiterated his desire for an abortion, but she replied she would “never do that.”
The next day, according to the filing, he told her he would order abortion drugs. She objected, texting, “Do not do that.” He ordered them anyway from Aid Access, the lawsuit says, later showing her a receipt.
Court documents say the marine repeatedly brought the pills — mifepristone and misoprostol — to the woman’s home, referring to them as “M&Ms” in messages. On Feb. 18, he texted, “I wish you’d just take the M&Ms,” and over the following weeks called the baby a “thing,” a “monstrosity” and “a mistake.”
When she invited him to an ultrasound, he agreed only if she promised to abort, writing, “I’ll go if you do it.” She refused.
By April, the suit says, the Marine knew she would not consent and proposed a “trust building night” on April 5.
While she stepped outside to let in her dog, he allegedly mixed the pills into hot chocolate.
Within 30 minutes, she began cramping and bleeding. She says he offered to pick up her mother to watch her children, then drive her to the hospital, but never returned and stopped answering her calls, texting her, “I’m sorry, i have to go to my flight tomorrow.”
The woman arranged her own ride to Corpus Christi Medical Center Bay Area, where doctors could not save the eight-week-old fetus. She told police she later found an opened mifepristone package with his name on the label in her home.
The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, accusing the defendants of violating multiple Texas abortion laws and committing murder under state law, which includes unborn children in its definition of an individual.