John Andrew Weldon, a Florida man whose father is a doctor, has been charged with murder after allegedly tricking his pregnant girlfriend into aborting their child by giving her abortifacient drugs instead of antibiotics. The man forged his father’s signature to obtain the drugs, then told his girlfriend that she had a bacterial infection and should take some amoxycillin. Instead of the antibiotic, he gave her misoprostol, which induces miscarriage. The drug did its work, killing the fetus.
TAMPA, Fla. — The 28-year-old son of a Florida fertility doctor has been charged by federal authorities with tricking his girlfriend into taking a pill used to induce labor and cause an abortion, killing the fetus she was carrying.
John Andrew Welden was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of product tampering and first-degree murder and faces up to life in prison if convicted of the murder charge. He’s also the defendant in a lawsuit filed in state court by his ex-girlfriend, 26-year-old Remee Lee.
“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,” said Lee’s attorney, Gil Sanchez. “She’s devastated. She still can’t believe this happened to her.”
You know, it’s a pretty sleazy thing to do, but imagine if the tables were turned. Man doesn’t want his child aborted, but girlfriend does it anyway. Who believes she’d be charged with murder? No, it would be her “right,” because it’s “her body.” Using that logic, however, how could we come up with a murder charge agaist the boyfriend? If a woman can terminate a pregnancy at will and face no charges for the injury done to the child, then the most Mr. Weldon should reasonably face is a felony assault charge for drugging his girlfriend.
This is yet another case where the law clearly and explicitly demonstates that men and women are not equal under the law, and most people – including women – do not want them to be.
I’m not arguing for or against abortion here, but instead pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in law surrounding abortion. Commenters have pointed out that Kermit Gosnell was merely the “hit man” for the women who hired him to kill their children. Not a single one of his patients was charged with any crime for having him exterminate viable infants.
These kinds of cases demonstrate that in some areas, women clearly have superior rights. That might be tolerable if men had superior rights in other areas, but this is unacceptable to feminists. The advantage must always tilt toward the female, and there must be no balance. In the long term, this is unsustainable.
