The first test run of Texas' abortion bounty law was set to go to trial, but Marcus Silva this week quietly settled his lawsuit against his ex-wife's friends.

A Texas man who sued his ex-wife’s friends for helping her obtain an abortion informed the court that the two sides reached a settlement, forgoing the need for a trial that would have tested his argument that their actions amounted to assisting in a wrongful death.

Anti-abortion attorney Jonathan Mitchell, engineer of a 2021 Texas abortion ban enforced through private lawsuits, sued on the Galveston man's behalf.

A Texas man who sued three women for allegedly helping his ex-wife obtain a medication abortion, one of the first and most explosive lawsuits after Texas began banning the procedure, has dropped his claims,

Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell represented the man, who sought $1 million from three women he accused of helping his ex-wife get an abortion

This case was about using the legal system to harass us for helping our friend, and scare others out of doing the same.”