The Unspeakable Evil of Christopher Cooprider

In the past, when a woman became pregnant outside of marriage, the father would either man up or abandon his child. Today, however, there is another option: A father can beg the mother of his child to murder their daughter. In fact, with mifepristone and misoprostol readily available over the internet, this has become a common response.

Few, however, are as disgustingly brazen in their demands for the death of their child as Christopher Cooprider, a Marine from Arizona.

In a lawsuit filed last month by former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell on behalf of Liana Davis, alleging wrongful death of an unborn baby and claiming that Cooprider spiked her hot chocolate with mifepristone and misoprostol, text messages submitted as evidence show Cooprider begging Davis to kill their daughter using abortion pills he ordered from Aid Access, an Austrian company that illegally ships abortion pills in the United States. (RELATED: Enforce Comstock: End ‘Mail-Order’ Abortions)

Aid Access requires nothing more than a simple online form to complete a sale. It makes no difference whether the buyer is a woman or even an adult. This means that any disgruntled father — like Cooprider — can tap a few buttons on his phone and, within days, receive at his doorstep the method of killing with which he can pressure the mother of his child into relieving him of his unwanted burden.

Cooprider’s demands for his child’s death are chilling.

When Davis, who lives in Texas, texted Cooprider in January of this year that she thought she might be pregnant and asked what he wanted to do, he responded, “I would like to get rid of it, if the test is positive.”

Later, before she had taken a pregnancy test, Cooprider said, “If it’s positive then we need to schedule a clinic visit and get an abortion pill asap.”

Continuing this troubling glimpse into the attitude that any father in the United States can easily adopt — even in states like Texas where abortion is illegal — Cooprider responded to Davis’s positive pregnancy test by saying, “It’s also the right thing to do in this situation. Get rid of it.”

In these text message exchanges, which Cooprider acknowledged as authentic in a countersuit, Davis pushes back, stating her offense at Cooprider’s demands. When he told her that she should “Get rid of it,” she responded, “Every time you say ‘get rid of it’ it’s like an electric shock.”

Cooprider later informed Davis that he would be purchasing abortion pills online. Davis objected, saying she didn’t want them: “Well YEAH I’m not ok with u buying something like that w/. my permission. It’s not a benign purchase.”

Here we see the inevitable outcome of the work of Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Aid Access: Any man can effortlessly obtain abortion pills without a prescription and dangle them in a woman’s face until she complies. (RELATED: What Are the Consequences of Destigmatizing Abortion?)

Cooprider even tried to get Davis to repeat a disturbing mantra to convince her to take the pills he had obtained and abort their baby. He texted, “Want you to practice some positive reinforcement. At the beginning of every hour, say out loud, ‘I am going to be good and safe after taking the M&M’s.’” (“M&M’s” refers to mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs that kill an unborn baby and then expel the child’s remains.)

He told her that he would come to an ultrasound appointment for their child “only if you agree that under NO circumstances is that potential child to be born.” He added, “If ultrasound says it is somehow alive. Then it needs to be abortion.” He went on to insist, “But it needs to be aborted and gone, no matter what.”

Davis attempted to convince Cooprider that the baby would be a blessing. She said, “There is nothing wrong with thinking of a sweet, beautiful new baby and choosing to be positive about it.” To this, Cooprider responded, “Ya whatever lady.”

A few days later, Cooprider told Davis he was going to “tell you some hard truths that your hormonal brain is not going to like.” He then elaborated: “Choosing to have that thing WILL mess with your life. It will take away and mess with your 3 current kids. Choosing to have it WILL mess up its life.”

What happened next is unclear. Davis alleges that Cooprider laced her hot chocolate with the Aid Access abortion pills, causing the child to die. For his part, Cooprider says that Davis is lying.

It’s hard to parse exactly what Cooprider’s version of events is, as his countersuit is a mix of frenzied claims and roughshod attempts to undermine Davis’s character, such as producing random embarrassing sexual text messages and asserting that Davis was “crying performatively” at the hospital she says she went to after hemorrhaging and cramping post-hot chocolate. But Cooprider’s claim seems to be that Davis plotted to “frame him” and “conjured the story of her being poisoned via abortion-inducing pills slipped into her hot chocolate.”

Cooprider also produced text messages that he allegedly exchanged with Davis during the period she was in the hospital, in which he says, “You took abortion pills right in front of me.” After Davis told Cooprider that she needed to know “how much misoprostol you put in my drink so I can tell my doctor,” he responded, “After you agreed to taking them.” Davis then denied that she had ever agreed to take the pills.

At other places in his lawsuit, Cooprider claims Davis had a spontaneous miscarriage. He provides a laundry list of explanations for why she might have miscarried, such as that she “Repeatedly Engaged in High-Impact Activities During Her Pregnancy,” including bouncing on a trampoline with her children, and drank Red Bull.

Davis attempted to press charges against Cooprider, but the Corpus Christi Police Department decided, following an investigation, to close the case. A spokeswoman, Madeline Vaughn, said, “After careful review, both agencies concluded that the elements of a crime could not be established, and the investigation was subsequently closed as unfounded.” The police later said that a detective “conducted an extremely thorough investigation into the allegation, including an examination of the existing evidence and medical records, and interviews with the complainant, accused, witnesses, hospital medical staff, the complainant’s OBGYN, and the Nueces County Medical Examiner.”

So, while we don’t know whether this is a case of a man secretly giving a woman abortion pills (several men have recently been charged for this, including in Texas), we can imagine that, had Cooprider been supportive of Davis — and not responded to her pregnancy by begging her to kill their child — their daughter might still be alive. (RELATED: After Man Is Sentenced for Killing His Unborn Child, Brits Overlook Child’s Humanity)

This whole tragic situation is enabled by Rebecca Gomperts, who thinks she’s a savior to the world because of her mission to saturate the United States with illegal abortion pills. Because of her, abortion is treated as a casual, effortless act for which no travel, consultation, or deliberation is necessary. To “Get rid of it” can be the default response, one that requires, as Chris Cooprider put it, to simply “get the 2 drugs needed to discontinue the pregnancy.” Even when a woman wants her baby, a man can belittle her motherhood and act like she’s stupid for not just swallowing abortion pills already. (“If that thing ever gets born,  it would be a failure on multiple levels”; “Realistically alllll our problems could be gone tomorrow!!”; “But you are going to do whatever you wanna do despite statistics and facts”; “It would be better off not being around.”) (RELATED: Abortion Drug Black Market Is Booming. Will Pam Bondi Intervene?)

The Texas Legislature recently passed a bill that would ban the distribution and mailing of abortion pills and allow private citizens to sue people or companies that distribute abortion pills in the state. It therefore mimics Texas’s 2021 abortion ban, which equipped citizens to sue abortion doctors. The bill sets the minimum award for a successful lawsuit at $100,000. It is now awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature.

The impact of such a law would be widespread, even though abortion is already illegal in Texas, except to save the life of the mother. According to the Society of Family Planning, about 2,500 Texans order abortion pills each month.

On Thursday, the Nation deemed Texas’s effort “the most aggressive attempt to stymie the flow of abortion medication by any state thus far.” In the face of rising abortion rates post-Dobbs, it could very well mark the start of ending the unimpeded, illegal flow of abortion-inducing drugs.

And it could begin to stop men, like Christopher Cooprider, who respond to their child’s conception by demanding her death.

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