A New York man has been arrested after he slipped pills misused to cause an abortion into his pregnant girlfriend’s vagina while they had sexual intercourse. The pill, meant to deal with stomach ulcers, caused enough damage to the three-month-old unborn bay that the child died.
According to the New York Post, 34 year-old Shervaughn Remy, who was arrested on Valentine’s Day last year, pleaded not guilty to felony abortion – an offense punishable by up to four years in prison.
The woman told police that after she and Remy had sex, she felt such intense pain in her abdomen that she went to a local hospital, where a doctor removed two pills from inside her and identified them as the abortion drug Cytotec, according to a criminal complaint. Several hours after seeing the doctor, she gave birth to the 14-week-old stillborn fetus.
As the Post reports: “My client maintains his innocence,” defense attorney David Zelman said in Brooklyn Supreme Court, adding that the alleged victim told him she doesn’t want an order of protection or to press charges.
Mark Crutcher, President of Life Dynamics, Inc., a national pro-life organization located in Denton, Texas, has documented that violence inflicted on pregnant women by pro-choice men who want their pregnancy aborted is nothing new.
Life Dynamics has collected data on a large volume of these cases and compiled the data in a report entitled, “Under-the-Radar Violence in the Conflict Over Abortion.”
In February, the Kansas Attorney General’s office has charged Scott Robert Bolling, 30, of first degree murder and three other counts after he laced his pregnant girlfriend’s pancake with a crushed abortion drug. The drug caused the death of Naomi Abbott’s 8-10-week old pre-born baby.
In January a Pennsylvania man was jailed on charges he punched a pregnant woman in the stomach and threatened to give her a “home abortion” during a domestic dispute. Franklin police were called after 23-year-old Kelton McClarrin allegedly “backhanded” the woman – who is four-and-a-half months pregnant – and dragged her out of bed by her ankle before punching her stomach with a closed fist. Police say McClarrin also brandished a knife as he threatened the woman with the abortion. Police have charged McClarrin with aggravated assault on an unborn child, terroristic threats and other crimes.
