The Texas Tribune has a story:
A Texas man is suing three women under the wrongful death statute, alleging that they assisted his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy, the first such case brought since the state’s near-total ban on abortion last summer.
Marcus Silva is represented by Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general and architect of the state’s prohibition on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, and state Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park. The lawsuit is filed in state court in Galveston County, where Silva lives.
Silva alleges that his now ex-wife learned she was pregnant in July 2022, the month after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and conspired with two friends to illegally obtain abortion-inducing medication and terminate the pregnancy.
To me, this sounds like a First Amendment case. Since the State government passed and enforces the law that allegedly gives this guy some right to sue the women, the government effectively is interfering with the women’s right to free speech.
I’m sure some conservative lawyer will start screaming at the idea that the US Constitution applies in this case.
