Texas man drops lawsuit against women who allegedly helped his ex-wife get an abortion
ALMOST two years ago, a Galveston man sued his ex-wife’s friends for the wrongful death of a fetus for allegedly helping her obtain pills to terminate her pregnancy. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit set off a panic about a potential new avenue of abortion criminalization in post-Roe v. Wade America. On Thursday, the claims were dropped with nothing to show for them. This shocking test case was filed by Jonathan Mitchell, an anti-abortion legal crusader responsible for Texas’ novel ban on abortions through private lawsuits. That gambit, commonly known as SB 8, survived a court challenge. This wrongful death suit, which demanded…