When She Refused Abortion, Her Boyfriend Threatened to Kill Their Unborn Baby With a Coat Hanger

International | Micaiah Bilger | Mar 14, 2022 | 4:51PM | London, England

A Scottish mother’s horrific abuse story serves as a tragic reminder of how frequently abuse and abortion are connected.

The Scottish Sun reports the woman, identified only as Steph, 30, of Coatbridge, said her ex-boyfriend almost forced her to abort her son with a coat hanger. However, a neighbor heard her screams and called police, saving both her and her son, now 7.

Steph said her ex-boyfriend later was convicted of abuse and spent several years in jail, but he recently was released. Now, she said she is afraid for herself and her son again.

“The start of the relationship was amazing. He treated me so good, nothing was too much effort,” she told her followers on the social media site TikTok. “Then a couple of months in he started getting really aggressive. Even when he wasn’t drinking, he would be quite aggressive, quite physical.”

Steph said he became manipulative and violent, smashing her phone and stopping her from going to work.

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“He controlled what I wore, what I ate, what I did, who I spoke to. I wasn’t even allowed to see my own family, I would see my mum for maybe a couple of hours on a Saturday and that was it, that’s all I was allowed,” she said.

His abuse was sexual as well as psychological, and he raped her several times, she said. When she became pregnant, she said he insisted that she abort the baby.

“He said, ‘You need to abort this baby. We can’t have this baby, I don’t want this baby,’” Steph continued. “When I was five weeks I started bleeding, I went to hospital. … As soon as I saw the heartbeat on that monitor, I just knew that’s my baby.

“When we got home, he set fire to the scan pictures, put them in a sandwich bag and threw them in my face and he said, ‘That’s what I think of your f—ing baby.’ That’s when I knew this is just one evil, evil person. I tried to leave and pack a bag and he cornered me in the room,” she said.

He tried to punch her in the stomach and grabbed a wire coat hanger, threatening to abort the baby, she said. When she started screaming, she said a neighbor heard and called police.

Her ex-boyfriend later was convicted and sentenced to several years in prison, according to the report. Recently, however, she said he was released.

“It still feels like I’m looking over my shoulder, but still at least the first couple of years of my son’s life were safe,” she said.

Mothers frequently are forced or coerced to abort their unborn babies, and sometimes their decisions to protect their babies’ lives lead to more abuse. A new BBC survey found 15 percent of women of childbearing age in the UK felt pressured to have abortions that they did not want.

Often the pressure comes from an intimate partner. A new study from Lifeway Research found that 42 percent of men whose partners had abortions said they either “strongly urged” or “suggested” that she have an abortion. In 2009, research by the Elliot Institute found 64 percent of post-abortive women said they felt pressured to have an abortion, often from a spouse or partner.

Another 2014 study found that forced abortions are common among sex trafficking victims. In “The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities,” researchers found that 55 percent of sex trafficking victims had at least one abortion, with more than half saying they were forced to abort one or more unborn babies.

Studies also have found high rates of violent abuse among women seeking abortions and pregnant women. Often, abuse also is connected to a mother’s refusal to abort her unborn child.

LifeNews has been keeping track of reports of forced and coerced abortions as well as abuse when women refuse to abort their unborn babies. They include:

India – Doctors, Family Members Forced Woman to Have Abortion, Killed Her 5-Month-Old Unborn Baby

Washington, D.C. – Washington D.C. Assistant Police Chief Was Told to Kill Her Baby in an Abortion or be Fired

Kentucky – Man Charged with Murdering His Pregnant Wife and Injuring Her Unborn Baby

England – Nurse Fired, Jailed for Helping Man Force Girlfriend to Abort Unborn Baby with Abortion Pills

Ohio – Doctor Pleads Guilty after Attempting to Murder Unborn Son after Wife Refused an Abortion (Canton Repository)

New York – Woman Says R. Kelly Forced Her to Get an Abortion Against Her Will

Brazil – Pregnant Woman Set on Fire, Killed After She Refused Boyfriend’s Demand to Get Abortion

Michigan – Man Convicted of Assaulting His Pregnant Girlfriend, Trying to Abort Her Baby

India – 15-Year-Old Girl Brutally Raped and Then Forced to Have Abortion

Canada – Man accused of killing toddler tried to force abortion on mother, court records show (CBC)

Minnesota – Man Charged for Allegedly Kicking Pregnant Woman in Stomach after She Refused an Abortion (Star Tribune)

Michigan – Man Charged With Raping Teen, Choking Her Until She Blacked Out Because She Refused Abortion