Texas Man Accusing Ex of Illegal Abortion Won’t Get Her Texts

A Texas woman alleged to have obtained an illegal abortion through non-prescribed medication won’t need to produce evidence to her ex-husband, a Texas appeals court ruled, overturning a trial court in holding that she has a “reasonable fear of prosecution.”

The 14th Court of Appeals said a trial court’s order requiring the production of records has the potential to violate Brittni Silva’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The evidence sought could “furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute” Silva, the appeals court said.

Silva isn’t a party in this wrongful death lawsuit, and she hasn’t conceded ...