
Texas man sues California doctor in unprecedented abortion pill case over unborn child’s alleged ‘murder’
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Lawsuit invokes the 1873 Comstock Act as Texas plaintiff seeks damages from California doctor for providing abortion pills that ended his unborn children's lives.
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Filed July 20 in the Southern District of Texas, the lawsuit accuses Dr. Remy Coeytaux of aiding illegal self-managed abortions in 2024, by mailing abortion-inducing drugs to Galveston County, Texas, where they were allegedly used to end two pregnancies.
Plaintiff Jerry Rodriguez claims his girlfriend’s estranged husband purchased the pills from Coeytaux through a Venmo transaction and pressured her to take them, ending two pregnancies Rodriguez says were his.













