Don't Want to Be Pregnant? Here's What Abortion Opponents Can Do to You in Texas
- Daily Kos, March 11, 2023.
We all know that elections have consequences. But not all consequences are as plain as this. As reported by Alexandria Gonzalez-Ramirez for New York Magazine:
A Texas man has sued three women, whom he accuses of murder, for allegedly helping his ex-wife terminate a pregnancy with abortion pills, in what appears to be the first case of its kind since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.
A trio of overlapping abortion bans has made terminating a pregnancy illegal in Texas except in cases of certain medical emergencies (this doesn’t happen in practice; five women who were denied medically necessary abortions are now suing the state). According to the Texas Tribune, which first reported on the lawsuit, plaintiff Marcus Silva is suing the women under the state’s wrongful death statute. He’s represented by former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of the Texas law that allows residents to sue anyone they suspect of “aiding and abetting” an abortion.
According to Gonzalez-Ramirez’s report:
Silva alleges that his ex-wife learned she was pregnant in July 2022 and concealed it from him. Notably, court records show she had filed for divorce two months earlier, in May 2022, although it wasn’t finalized until February 2023. According to photos of his ex-wife’s purported text messages, which were included in the lawsuit, she told the defendants: “I know either way he will use it against me. If I told him before, which I’m not, he would use it as [a way to] try to stay with me. And after the fact, I know he will try to act like he has some right to the decision.”...
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