Posted on 05/16/2013 9:42:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
TAMPA BAY - Federal authorities arrested a local doctor's son, who they say tricked his pregnant girlfriend into taking an abortion pill, killing their unborn child.
John Andrew Weldon, 28, is now facing first-degree murder and interfering with interstate commerce charges.
According to a federal arrest affidavit, Weldon swapped out his girlfriend's antibiotics with abortion pills, specifically Cytotec.
"I was never going to do anything but go full term with it, and he didn't want me to," explained Remee Lee, 26, Weldon's now ex-girlfriend.
On Easter Sunday, Lee went to an area hospital complaining of severe cramping and excessive vaginal bleeding. Doctors told Lee her unborn baby no longer had a heartbeat.
Lee also brought along a bottle of Amoxycillin, an antibiotic. But when doctors examined the pills, they told her they were abortion pills.
"He came to my house with the pills, his weapon of choice," Lee recalled.
Lee said when she learned she was pregnant, Weldon took her to see his father, who is an obstetrician in Lutz. A sonogram and blood test confirmed Lee was six-weeks pregnant.
The next day, Weldon called his girlfriend with bad news. Her blood test apparently showed she had a bacterial infection and she would need to take Amoxicillin to clear it up.
On Good Friday, Lee said Weldon showed up at her Tampa home with a care package that included the bottle of antibiotics. The label said the pills were A moxycillin .
"He told me to keep taking them. I was supposed to take three a day for days," she recalled of Weldon's instructions.
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Well, the defense certainly has a strong case for selective prosecution and the SCOTUS ruling that fetuses are not a human being.
Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 is the federal statute that he is being prosecuted under. Basically, if you commit a federal crime that results in the death of a fetus, you can be charged with felony murder. Many states also have similar statutes. It is a natural extension of standard felony murder statutes.
The originating federal felony was the product tampering of relabeling a medication, which is a nasty crime in and of itself.
Annoyed? Enraged is a better word with me.
Well, my point is that I don’t think that men and women have equal rights to kill babies. They have equal rights NOT to kill babies.
Nadil Hasan’s terrorist attack at Ft. Hood is not a federal crime?
Yes it is a federal crime, but I believe he is being prosecuted by the military under military law and I don’t know if they have a similar statute on their books.
There is a word in the English language for such things: poison.
Poison is medicine. Up is down. Square is round.
This WILL happen.
We will never know how often.
Ladies, be careful who you accept drinks from.
A: Whatever.
That’s about the level of intellectually stimulating conversation on epistemology that you’d get from a “millennial”.
Since when is murder a federal crime?
There are a number of federal crimes which carry the death penalty. But, I’m guessing this one is associated with the so-called “Lacey Peterson law” signed in 2005 by GW Bush.
Not a link, just my personal knowledge based on years of reading.
However, one of the foremost pro-Life organizations is named for one of those early pro-life feminists.
It’s called the Susan B. Anthony Foundation.
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