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In an unprecedented legal challenge that could reshape post-Dobbs abortion litigation, a Texas man has filed the first federal wrongful death lawsuit targeting an out-of-state abortion provider for allegedly “murdering” his unborn children through cross-border pill distribution. The case seeks to establish fathers nationwide as a protected class with legal standing to sue abortion providers, potentially circumventing state shield laws that protect doctors in pro-choice jurisdictions.
By Samuel Lopez – USA Herald
A Texas father has launched what legal experts are calling a landmark federal assault on interstate abortion services, filing a wrongful death lawsuit that revives a 150-year-old federal statute and challenges the boundaries of post-Dobbs reproductive rights litigation.
The case, Rodriguez v. Coeytaux, filed July 20 in the Southern District of Texas, accuses California physician Dr. Remy Coeytaux of “murdering” two unborn children by mailing abortion-inducing drugs across state lines to Galveston County, Texas, where they were allegedly used to terminate pregnancies in September 2024 and January 2025.
