Elective abortions are prohibited in Texas, and Texas law now allows individuals to file civil lawsuits against physicians who mail abortion pills into the state. The first lawsuit of this kind was just filed.
The lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District Of Texas (Galveston Division) alleges that “Remy Coeytaux mailed abortion-inducing drugs into Texas that were used to murder Jerry Rodriguez’s unborn child.” Rodriguez filed the lawsuit after his girlfriend’s estranged and separated husband, Adam Garza, ordered the abortion pills via Aid Access, “an organization that illegally ships abortion-inducing drugs into jurisdictions where abortion has been outlawed” according to the filing.
Garza, who had been separated from the woman for several years, allegedly pressured her into taking the abortion pills despite her being more than 10 weeks pregnant and previously expressing happiness about the pregnancy.
A month later, Kendal (the girlfriend) became pregnant again. According to Rodriguez, she again expressed happiness about the pregnancy and the two went to a sonogram appointment about two months later and took home pictures of their baby boy.
Less than two weeks later, when Kendal was three months pregnant, Garza again gave Kendal abortion pills, this time at his own house. “After the abortion, Kendal texted Mr. Rodriguez and told him that she had to cut the baby boy’s umbilical cord and bury him (although she did not say where),” the filing reads.
The manufacturers and distributors of the abortion pill will also be added as defendants in the lawsuit.
Coeytaux is the subject of another similar lawsuit out of Louisiana, but Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to extradite him to Texas.
