Annie
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Upfront, I'm against abortion. However, we live in a country where women have the choice to carry or not to term. Birth control is easy, effective, and affordable. If one can't afford, can pick up condoms at health services for the county or likely your public high schools.
First up:
Florida Man Tricked His Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Pill | Yahoo! Health
So he is getting likely 13 years or so. If she chose to abort, he'd have no say.
Seems we need some sort of fairness in cases of unmarried women that choose to keep their child.
If the 'partner' doesn't want the child, he can't force an abortion, that is murder or whatever charge the state chooses to bring. But, should he be forced to pay child support? I say, "No." The woman can be sure to use effective birth control or let the man sign away all rights to the child and she can raise the child.
First up:
Florida Man Tricked His Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Pill | Yahoo! Health
Florida Man Tricked His Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Pill
By Justin Caba
Wed, Sep 11, 2013
John Andrew Welden, 28, faces the possibility of 13 years in prison after he admitted to slipping his girlfriend Remee Jo Lee the abortion pill, which resulted in the loss of the couples unborn child. The resident of Florida pleaded guilty to federal charges of product tampering and mail fraud on Monday, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
During court proceedings, Lees attorney, Monica Sanchez, introduced text messages between the couple that showed Lees happiness over the positive pregnancy and Weldens dissatisfaction. Weldens sentencing date is scheduled for Dec. 5.
She is going through depression and is being treated, but she is trying to move on, Monica Sanchez told ABC News. Nothing in the world, even if he was sentenced to life in prison, will bring her baby back."
After he was arrested in May, Welden was convicted on a first-degree murder charge; however, prosecutors dropped the murder charge for mail fraud in accord with the guilty plea. According to the plea agreement, when Lee was six to seven weeks pregnant, Welden removed identifying marks from the drug misoprostol, marketed as Cytotec, and gave it to his girlfriend who thought she was taking amoxicillin for an infection.
Welden also admitted to forging a prescription through his father, OB-GYN Dr. Stephen Welden, so he could add Lees name as well as a different medication's name to the pill bottle used to hold the abortion pill.
Shortly after she unknowingly ingested misoprostol, Lee started to experience severe pain and cramps that eventually led to a miscarriage. Misoprostol may endanger pregnancy (may cause abortion) and thereby cause harm to the fetus when administered to a pregnant woman, states the pharmaceutical company that produces the pill.
"Whenever a woman is robbed of her ability to give birth and have a child, I don't think there's any greater harm you can cause somebody," Lee's other attorney, Gil Sanchez, told the Associated Press. "She's devastated. She still can't believe this happened to her."
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So he is getting likely 13 years or so. If she chose to abort, he'd have no say.
Seems we need some sort of fairness in cases of unmarried women that choose to keep their child.
If the 'partner' doesn't want the child, he can't force an abortion, that is murder or whatever charge the state chooses to bring. But, should he be forced to pay child support? I say, "No." The woman can be sure to use effective birth control or let the man sign away all rights to the child and she can raise the child.