Texas man charged with carrying out an abortion

A man in Texas has been charged with secretly administering abortion pills that ended the life of an unborn child.

Jon Rueben Demeter is due to appear before a judge for the “Performance of an Abortion” and “Injury to a Child”, following the death of Presley Mae, a baby girl stillborn at 14 weeks.

Montgomery County Law enforcement officers were called by a local hospital to investigate a suspicious miscarriage. Demeter was arrested shortly afterwards under suspicion of giving the pregnant woman abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge or consent.

‘A stolen future’

According to investigators, Demeter crushed an abortion pill he had obtained online and “mixed it in a water bottle” to give to the young woman with the “specific intent to cause the death of the child”.

The pregnant woman, who had previously been encouraged by Demeter to get an abortion, told the Sheriff’s Office that had she intended to keep her daughter.

At a press conference last month, Sheriff Wesley Doolittle said: “She had 10 fingers, 10 toes, and an entire lifetime of possibilities ahead of her. That future was stolen before it ever had a chance to begin.”

Speaking at the same event, District Attorney Michael R. Holley added: “I’m grateful I live in a place where little lives matter. And I’m grateful I live in a place where our ladies’ lives matter and that violence against our ladies is unacceptable in any form.”

Abortion pill availability

Earlier this month, Emerson Evans, a 32-year-old man from Illinois, received a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to the voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child.

Evans is said to have caused the death of his girlfriend’s baby — who was seven weeks pregnant at the time — by inserting abortion pills into her body without her consent. He claimed to have bought the pills in person “from a girl on campus” for $50.

Planned Parenthood is now offering women in Hawaii and Washington ‘Just in Case Abortion Pills’ for those “who are not currently pregnant” but want to keep them “on-hand”.

Women can obtain mifepristone and misoprostol — mifepristone is thought to be the abortion pill used by Demeter and Evans — by a ‘telehealth’ appointment or by visiting an abortion clinic.