Texas man sues doctor for allegedly supplying abortion pills to girlfriend

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Source: The Guardian

Wed 23 Jul 2025 17.10 EDT
Last modified on Wed 23 Jul 2025 17.39 EDT


A Texas man has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against a doctor who, he says, supplied abortion pills to his girlfriend.

In the lawsuit, which was filed in Texas on Sunday, Jerry Rodriguez alleges that the doctor, Remy Coeytaux, mailed the pills to Texas, where virtually all abortions are outlawed. Rodriguez’s girlfriend then allegedly used the pills to end two pregnancies.

Coeytaux not only broke a series of Texas anti-abortion laws, the lawsuit alleges, but also a 19th-century federal anti-vice law known as the Comstock Act. That act bans the mailing of abortion-related materials, but has been unenforced for decades, its scope narrowed by laws and court rulings – including Roe v Wade, which has since been overturned – that came into effect in the 20th century.

“Assisting a self-managed abortion in Texas is an act of murder,” the lawsuit alleges. Although Rodriguez’s girlfriend, the lawsuit continued, “cannot be charged with murder for her role in killing her unborn child, immunity does not shield Coeytaux from liability for aiding or abetting or directly participating in the murder”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/texas-man-sues-doctor-abortion-pills

[Irish_Dem]

1. Man uses 19th century law to punish, torment, harass his ex girlfriend.

I hope women avoid this man like the plague.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I bet

He had no intention of paying child support.

[Norrrm]

3. Not married? Aren't there laws about that?

[marble falls]

4. She's just not into him or his spawn.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. What standing does this guy have? Doesn't he have to have proof he impregnated her?

[Seinan Sensei]

6. I want to sue Jerry's doctor

A wrongful-sex lawsuit for supplying men with Boner Pills.
It ought to be a law in Texas.
As in:
“Assisting a (self-managed) Boner in Texas is a seditious act against God.”
I’m not saying that Jerry Rodriguez needs Boner Pills, but hey … goose and gander, you know.

[angrychair]

7. This is completely horrifying

It is her body. Unless he is the one that has to risk their life carrying that fetus to term over 9 months and the next 18+ years taking care of it them, he can shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.

[DiverDave]

8. Its all about

The Benjamins.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. Someone should abort this Jerry Rodriguez asshole.

[A Badger]

10. Isn't this

Your body, my choice.
?

[Skittles]

11. excellent observation

that is EXACTLY what it is

[Grins]

12. HERE'S the guts of this!

The Guardian:

Rodriguez is seeking damages against (Dr.) Coeytaux as well as an injunction that would forbid Coeytaux from mailing abortion pills across state lines. Rodriguez wants that injunction, he said in his lawsuit, “on behalf of a class of all current and future fathers of unborn children in the United States”.

It has nothing to do with Rodriguez, his idiot “girlfriend” - who is still legally married to another man who urged his wife to take the pills the other TWO TIMES she got knocked up - or “future fathers of unborn children.”

It is to get STATE bans on abortion medications to become NATIONAL law! The anti-abortion freaks are using Rodriquez as their foil to do just that.

And who?

Rodriguez’s lawyer - Jonathan Mitchell, the attorney who masterminded Texas’ six-week abortion ban. Mitchell was also the attorney behind Texas’ “bounty hunter” laws turning individuals into vigilantes and giving them the right to sue anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion. Their reward? A fat $10,000 PER violation.

And he’s not shy about saying he also wants to roll back decades of progress for LGBTQ rights.

It may be fair to say, without Mitchell, Roe would still be the law.

[FakeNoose]

13. If only she had gotten a do-it-yourself home vasectomy kit, instead of the abortion pills