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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

A Texas man sued his his ex-wife’s friends for allegedly helping her with an abortion. Now they’re suing him

REUTERS

In March, a man in Texas sued three women he accused of helping his ex-wife terminate her pregnancy, the first lawsuit of its kind after the state effectively outlawed most abortions and the US Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion care.

Marcus Silva’s wrongful death lawsuit in Galveston alleges that his ex-wife’s friends helped her secure abortion drugs and “conceal the pregnancy and murder” of his “unborn child.”

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