US man sues women for helping ex-wife get abortion

A Texas antheral is suing 3 women for helping his present ex-wife get termination medicine past twelvemonth - 1 period aft Roe v Wade was overturned.

The suit says nether Texas law, "a idiosyncratic who assists a large pistillate successful obtaining a self-managed termination has committed the transgression of murder".

The suit heavy relies connected substance messages betwixt his ex-wife and the 3 women.

Marcus Silva is asking for $1m successful damages.

His ex-wife's friends allegedly texted her accusation astir Aid Access, an planetary radical that provides termination medicine by mail.

Text messages uncover Mr Silva's ex-wife was acrophobic helium would effort to marque her enactment with him if helium learned astir the pregnancy.

One of the women dropped disconnected the medicine to Mr Silva's ex-wife, the suit says.

The suit claims the shaper of the pills volition besides beryllium named arsenic a suspect erstwhile they are identified.

There is besides a conspiracy complaint against the women - the suit alleges they told Mr Silva's ex-wife to fell the gestation and substance messages from him.

Mr Silva's erstwhile woman is not named arsenic a suspect - nether Texas law, a large idiosyncratic is exempt from prosecution.

They person 2 daughters together, according to the lawsuit.

She filed for divorcement successful May 2022 earlier the divorcement was finalised successful February 2023. The suit alleges she learned she was large successful July 2022, aft Roe v Wade was overturned, but a period earlier the state's trigger instrumentality banning termination came into effect, which made providing an termination a felony punishable by up to beingness successful situation but to prevention the beingness of the mother.

Even earlier the trigger prohibition was successful effect, determination were a fig of different restrictions connected termination successful the state.

In 2021, Texas passed a instrumentality that made astir abortions amerciable aft astir six weeks of pregnancy. It gave citizens the close to writer anyone who "knowingly engages successful behaviour that immunodeficiency oregon abets the show oregon inducement of an abortion". A pre-Civil War prohibition connected abortions was besides inactive connected the books erstwhile Roe v Wade was overturned.

Mr Silva is being represented by Republican authorities typical Briscoe Cain and Jonathan Mitchell - a erstwhile solicitor wide who helped pen 1 of Texas' termination bans.

The defendants did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Last week 5 women sued the authorities of Texas implicit constricted termination entree erstwhile they had life-threatening wellness risks. Their suit alleges doctors are refusing to execute the process adjacent successful utmost cases retired of fearfulness of prosecution.

A Texas justice is besides expected to regularisation soon successful different lawsuit, which takes purpose astatine the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) support process for the termination medicine mifepristone. If the justice overturns the FDA's support for mifepristone, it could effect the drug's availability nation-wide.