The timing wasn’t great for Illinois Gov. Jay Pritzker.
On Aug. 22, the abortion advocate was in Champaign, signing a new law mandating that public colleges and universities make the abortion drug mifepristone available to students.
In his accompanying statement, Pritzker said: “Six years ago, I made a promise to the women of this state: As governor, I will ensure that your medical decisions will be your own… Today is another step forward in fulfilling that promise.”
Later that day, 50 miles away in Bloomington, a 31-year-old man allegedly told police he had made the decision that his unborn child should die. He put four mifepristone tablets inside his girlfriend’s vagina, even though the deadly drug was meant to be taken orally and the recommended dose is just one pill.
At a hearing for 31-year-old Emerson Evans, Judge Amy McFarland said the suspect allegedly told police he "made the decision" for his girlfriend. Their baby had spent just seven weeks in the womb before being expelled in a violent torrent of blood that sent the woman to the hospital.
Evans was charged with two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child. He will be arraigned Sept. 12.
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Stories of men killing their babies by surreptitiously slipping their pregnant partners abortion drugs seem to cross my desk with alarming frequency.
In June, Justin Banta, an IT staffer for the Justice Department, was charged with capital murder for allegedly slipping an abortion drug into his pregnant girlfriend’s drink the previous October. She lost her baby.
Earlier this month, a 37-year-old woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Texas, claiming that a captain in the U.S. Marines dissolved 10 misoprostol pills into a cup of hot chocolate he prepared for her in April. This was after months of texting the woman about his desire that she “get rid” of their child.
It’s not only happening in the U.S. Last year, a man in Great Britain was convicted of spiking his girlfriend’s orange juice with mifepristone. Her baby died at 15 weeks.
How are men getting these deadly drugs? Online.
This website lists 10 sites where anyone can get pills to end a child’s life in the womb. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of sites like this.
When the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that could have restricted access to mifepristone, mayors and governors in blue cities and towns made headlines as they announced plans to stockpile the drug. Mainstream news outlets published stories about how, in the absence of mifepristone, the second drug in the chemical abortion drug, misoprostol, could do the job all by itself.
Here’s Planned Parenthood with a step-by-step guide on how to kill a child with misoprostol. Here’s the New York Times, telling us how safe it is.
Never mind the blood and the pain and the not-infrequent need for women to require medical treatment after one of these horror-movie abortions, advocates want these deadly pills available everywhere, and they’re apparently not concerned with the criminal intent of men who don’t want the babies they had a hand in creating.
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As access to abortion drugs continues to expand, the more likely we are to continue hearing these tragic tales of women losing their loved and wanted children because the babies’ fathers have other plans.
“I’m proud to be taking these steps, but I will not rest on this,” Pritzker crowed about his new law. “We will continue to activate and protest and march and deliver until every woman in this state gets the health care she deserves.”
Abortion is not health care, and no one deserves to suffer an abortion against her will.
Editor's note: Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. She is the author of Everything You Need to Know About Abortion – For Teens. This article is a Pregnancy Help News original.
