Grand jury indicts Montgomery County man accused of secretly giving pregnant woman abortion medication

Click2Houston ^ | May 20, 2026 | Corley Peel

[Morgana]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – A Montgomery County man accused of secretly giving a pregnant woman an abortion pill that killed their unborn baby, has been officially indicted by a grand jury.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Jon Rueben Demeter was indicted Thursday on an abortion charge and injury to a child. The abortion charge is a first-degree felony carrying a punishment of five years to life in prison.

KPRC 2 News reporter Corley Peel obtained a search warrant revealing new details about how Demeter allegedly administered the drug without the woman’s knowledge or consent.

According to the warrant, the woman told detectives she was at Demeter’s home when he gave her a bottle containing a white milky substance. He told her it was an electrolyte drink and claimed it had helped the mother of his other children during pregnancy.

Later that night, the woman began feeling ill. Once at the hospital, she gave birth at 14 weeks. Her baby girl did not survive. The woman told detectives she did not want to end her pregnancy, but Demeter did.

The warrant shows Demeter had previously told the woman he could obtain abortion medication online and offered to pay her $1,000 to terminate the pregnancy. She refused.

While searching Demeter’s home, investigators found a glass bowl containing white powder residue and evidence of a crushed white pill.

According to the warrant, Demeter admitted he ordered abortion medication online and gave the woman the drink, but denied the bottle contained the abortion pills, telling investigators he had given the pills away.

[T.B. Yoits]

Once the State declared a mother could legally terminate the life of a child without the consent of the father, the father could also terminate the life of the child without the consent of the mother.

"If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring a pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice." - Karen DeCrow, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), telling the court in 1981 that her client should not be held to a child support order on the grounds that the mother had deceived him into the pregnancy by lying about taking the contraceptive pill.

The mother can't even argue he was practicing medicine without a license because he has the same argument she has when she claims "my body, my right" despite it being the child's body.

"I didn't give the drug to her; I gave it my child."

Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was written in 1729.

[Morgana]

“Once the State declared a mother could legally terminate the life of a child ...”

Shame on the State for ever declaring such a thing!

[Kudsman]

How does the left get away with holding two different positions regarding a fetus? On one hand they want it classified as an unviable tissue mass when they want to abort it. In this case it becomes a baby when charging the father.

[Morgana]

This happened in Texas and that is a red state which is extremely pro life,

[Socon-Econ]

What was going through that woman’s head when she hooked up with that evil loser?

[healy61]

Fair question: are you supportive of this father having the right to give her medication without her knowledge that caused her hospitalization and abortion of a child for whom she expected to be a live birth?

[T.B. Yoits]

Fair question: are you supportive of this father having the right to give her medication without her knowledge that caused her hospitalization and abortion of a child for whom she expected to be a live birth?

It doesn't matter what I think.

Once The State declared a mother could legally terminate the life of a child without the consent (and knowledge) of the father, the father could also terminate the life of the child without the consent (and knowledge) of the mother.

The State has declared that the mother can take medication or undergo a procedure that terminates the life of the father's child for whom he expected to be born alive, negating his rights a father. Once The State declared a mother could negate the father's rights, a father could negate the mother's rights.

Welcome to the Marxist Dystopia.

[Henry Hnyellar]

They want equality, until they don’t.