{"id":309962,"date":"2024-04-10T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309962"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:06:05","slug":"nurse-abortion-pills-license-stripped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nurse-abortion-pills-license-stripped\/","title":{"rendered":"State strips license from married nurse who forced abortion drugs upon girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Benjamin Coots, the married nurse who is accused of forcibly inserting abortion drugs into his girlfriend during sex, has been stripped<\/a> of his nursing license by the state of Washington.<\/p>\n

Last month, Coots was charged<\/a> with second-degree assault, third-degree rape, tampering with a witness, and five counts of violation of a court order. Coots, a nurse practitioner for MultiCare, was the primary care provider of his victim, with whom he allegedly persistently pursued a relationship after she became his patient in January of 2023. After he told her he was getting a divorce, they began a relationship in September of 2023. In January of 2024, the victim learned she was pregnant, and though she said Coots originally acted “overly supportive,” he allegedly had other intentions.<\/p>\n

The victim claimed he first tried to force her to drink a coffee, which she thinks was drugged; then, she noted that he was \u201cabnormally aggressive\u201d during sex, and was doing things he \u201chas never done before.\u201d He also tried to prevent her from using the bathroom afterward, but when she did, she found a pill on her toilet paper, and then later, found a second pill along with \u201csome kind of foil.\u201d Though Coots initially denied it when she confronted him, she said he eventually admitted to inserting four abortion-inducing pills inside her body during sex. He then gave her a $2,000 check in an effort to keep her from going to the police. She refused the money.<\/p>\n