The danger from abortion pills has been brought home by a new and shocking legal case. An Irish man has pleaded guilty to forcing a woman to take abortion pill.
The man forced the woman to take abortion pills, which he obtained from a pharmacy in Dublin, on Valentine’s Day 2020, ending the life of her nine-week-old unborn child.
It took the police in Ireland four years to access the accused’s phone because of a programme he had installed on it. Once accessed, it showed that the man had searched online for how to conduct an abortion at home using abortion pills.
The phone also contained an audio recording of the man forcing the woman to take the abortion pills, in which he can be heard saying, “I’m showing you what to do… take this… I’m dead serious… I’m forcing you. I don’t care, take it”.
Following the consumption of the abortion pills, the woman was in a large amount of pain and suffering from cramps. The man had locked her in a room during this time and told her not to eat anything.
The man is also charged with assaulting the woman and causing her harm, which he has also pleaded guilty to.
During her victim impact statement, the woman made it clear that she has suffered a long-term impact following this forced abortion.
“When he wrongfully imprisoned me and caused the termination of my nine-week pregnancy, he took far more than my freedom”, she said. “He took my child. He took my sense of safety. He took a future that I had already begun to plan and love”.
“My baby was real to me. I had hopes, dreams, and a bond with the life that was growing inside me, and all of it was violently stolen from me in a moment of cruelty that I will never forget”, she added.
“I will always grieve my child. I will always remember what was taken from me”, the woman said, adding, “What happened mattered. My child mattered. And justice matters”.