Texas Women Defeat Wrongful Abortion Claims From Friend’s Husband

A Texas man has dropped wrongful death claims against three women he says assisted his former wife in obtaining medicine for an unlawful abortion.

Marcus Silva abandoned the case and agreed to not try it again, according to a district court filing in Galveston County on Thursday.

The move comes three days after Judge Lonnie Cox refused Silva’s request to delay a trial set to begin Monday.

In exchange for dropping the case, two of the women Silva sued agreed to drop counterclaims against him for invasion of privacy and for accessing a computer without the owner’s consent, court records ...