The Men Suing Over Their Partners’ Abortions

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'The antiabortion movement has found an unlikely new ally to target abortion providers: husbands, boyfriends and exes.

Men have filed several recent lawsuits stemming from abortions obtained by their partners or ex-partners. The strategy is part of an effort by antiabortion lawyers to gain ground in their uphill battle to target mail-order abortion pills and interstate travel for the procedure. But it carries risks—putting dysfunctional relationships on display to advance a divisive claim that men are harmed when their intimate partners end pregnancies.

“They’re finding people who might have an ax to grind against their ex to try to end abortion access. These are not savory plaintiffs,” said Marc Hearron, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights who represented a Texas abortion-rights activist in one case where a man sued several people over his then-wife’s self-managed abortion. The cases, Hearron said, are based on “a wackadoo theory.”'