‘This sordid tale shows why Health Care Sharing Ministries will NEVER pay for abortions and abortion pills,’ said AHCSM Executive Director Katy Talento
WASHINGTON — A Texas woman says the man who fathered her child obtained pregnancy-ending pills on the abortion black market and used them to poison her and murder their unborn child.
She is suing him for wrongful death in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas.
“State and federal mandates requiring insurance plans to cover abortions have contributed to a vicious culture of death in our country. Easy availability of abortifacients, even illegally, is the inevitable result of insurance companies being only too willing to pay for the drugs, flooding the market while keeping their bottom line healthy,” said Katy Talento, executive director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries (AHCSM).
“It’s far cheaper to pay for an abortion drug than the costs of a pregnancy to a child’s delivery turning insurers into the ghoulish position of profiting more from killing people than keeping them alive.. Easy availability makes horrible things happen and degrades the culture of life in our society.”
The complaint states that Christopher Cooprider ended the life of his baby girl “Joy” and sent his pregnant neighbor, Liana Davis, to the hospital with “hemorrhaging” by lacing her cup of hot chocolate with a dangerous combination of mifepristone and misoprostol, according to The Federalist.
“This sordid tale shows why Health Care Sharing Ministries (HCSMs) will NEVER pay for abortions or choose death over life,” Talento says. “These ministries help members support a culture of life amid a cold, secular, insurance-driven culture that devalues life, that weaponizes prescriptions to harm others, and which provides easy access to drugs that bring great harm.
“America’s health care system is pushing to make dangerous abortion pills like Mifepristone available over the counter without any medical supervision. Unlike health insurance, Health Care Sharing Ministries won’t facilitate the sharing of expenses arising from drugs and procedures that intentionally kill babies and put women in extreme danger.”
Text messages displayed in the complaint that were allegedly between Cooprider and Davis beginning on Jan. 31, 2025, purportedly show a pressure campaign including profanity on the mom-to-be to use the mifepristone and misoprostol combination to end her pregnancy.
In one text, Cooprider allegedly tells Davis that the pill regimen is a “safe and reliable” option that can be “safely taken at home and without medical supervision. And without record.”
Studies show “the rate of serious or life-threatening complications such as hemorrhage, sepsis, and more after chemical abortion is 22 times higher than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims,” the Federalist said, citing a recent study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Davis is also suing Aid Access and Rebecca Gomperts, “because they purposefully and knowingly
mailed abortion-inducing drugs into Texas in violation of state and federal law.”
“This case in Texas is shocking, but look at the big picture,” Talento said. “Nearly 70 percent of abortions are believed to be ‘unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires,’ according to a study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
“The fact is, many, many women are bullied into having abortions.
“Health Care Sharing Ministries will never be complicit in pressuring women to kill their babies or facilitating abortions. HCSMs are the only 100% pro-life option for financing medical bills.”
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries is a 501(c)(6) trade organization representing the common interests of Health Care Sharing Ministries, which are facilitating the sharing of health care needs (financial, emotional and spiritual) by individuals and families, and their participants. The Alliance engages with federal and state regulators, members of the media, and the Christian community to provide accurate and timely information on health care sharing.
To learn more about the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, visit www.ahcsm.org or follow the ministry on Facebook or Twitter.
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