A Texas man is suing three friends of his former wife, alleging that they helped her obtain abortion medication in violation of state law after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade last year.
Marcus Silva filed a wrongful death and conspiracy lawsuit Thursday in Galveston County against the three women. He includes pictures of text messages in the lawsuit to support his allegations that the three women arranged to obtain the pills and conceal their actions.
His ex-wife is exempt from liability in the case, the suit notes, and is not a named defendant. NBC News is not naming the three women being sued or Silva’s former wife.
Silva and his wife divorced in February, but were still married when she conceived in July. It’s unclear from Silva’s lawsuit why his former wife chose to terminate her pregnancy, but it appears from the alleged text messages she had already planned to leave him by that point.
“I know either way he will use it against me,” she allegedly wrote to her friends. “If I told him before, which I’m not, he would use it as (a way) to try to stay with me.”
The alleged messages are not dated, but some states passed trigger laws restricting abortion that went into effect following the official ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on June 24. According to the screenshots in the lawsuit, the three women shared information on abortion resources in Texas despite such laws.
The women also discussed the possibility of traveling out of the state for care. At one point Silva’s former wife had spoken to someone who could refer her “to places in New Mexico and Colorado.”
One woman shared a link and screenshots on information regarding abortion medication, noting that it could be done safely at home, according to the texts. She shared messages from an unknown person that said the pill was available in the state still but that the legality of ordering it online and shipping it in were “murky.”
Silva’s wife tells the group that she would be willing to take…
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