Illinois 2025
In August of 2025, Emerson Evans was arrested and charged with two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child. He allegedly put abortion pills in his girlfriend’s vagina without her knowledge or consent. His girlfriend was approximately 7 weeks pregnant at the time. Evans claimed he bought mifepristone pills for $50 “from a girl on campus.” The victim told police that Evans wanted her to have an abortion but she did not. Evans reportedly told police that he “made the decision for her.”
Washington 2024
David Coots, a nurse practitioner, was charged with assault, third degree rape, and witness tampering after allegedly forcing a misoprostol pill into a woman’s vagina during sexual intercourse. Coots had led the woman to believe that he was excited about her pregnancy. Coots claimed that he prescribed the misoprostol for himself. The victim was suspicious and sought emergency care, at which point more misoprostol was discovered inside her. After days of bleeding and stomach pain, she was no longer pregnant. In summer 2025 Coots pleaded guilty to both second and fourth-degree assault as well as tampering with a witness. He was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and may not contact the victim for 10 years.
Louisiana 2024
New York abortionist Dr. Margaret Carpenter, along with a Louisiana woman, were indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for violating the state’s law prohibiting abortion pills. According to the district attorney, the Louisiana woman obtained the pills via Dr. Carpenter and told her pregnant daughter, a minor, that “she had to take the pill or else.” The young girl reportedly ended up in the emergency room after suffering significant bleeding. She had reportedly been planning a gender reveal party for her child, which indicates that she desired to keep her baby. Instead she was allegedly coerced to take have an abortion she didn’t want with pills recklessly prescribed by a doctor who had reportedly never even evaluated her or spoken with her.
Florida 2023
Haley Raborn was charged with solicitation and attempted murder on an unborn child by injury to the mother, and tampering with/fabricating physical evidence. Raborn allegedly attempted to have the ex-fiance of the victim kill his 11-week old unborn child with an abortion pill. Instead, the ex-fiance turned the pill over to law enforcement. Raborn claimed that she got the pill from an online telemedicine doctor, which is illegal under Florida law.
California 2022
Jagmeet Sandhu was sentenced to a year in jail for involuntary manslaughter. He had held his girlfriend at gunpoint after entering her home while she slept and forced her to take abortion pills, killing her child. She was about 12 weeks pregnant at the time.
Nebraska 2021
Ronald Powell, a high school security guard, was accused of sexually abusing a 15-year old student over the course of several years. And a result, the student became pregnant. According to court records he posed as her father at Planned Parenthood, where she had a chemical abortion.
Connecticut 2016
Sage Lanza, an adult male, had a sexual relationship with a 14-year old victim who became pregnant. He pressured her to have an abortion and made an appointment for her at Planned Parenthood. When she was about two months pregnant, he and his father took her to Planned Parenthood for a chemical abortion. Connecticut does not have parental notification or consent laws for minors seeking an abortion.
New York 2015
Joshua Woodward was sentenced to nine years in prison for attempted murder after giving a woman abortion drugs without her knowledge during a sexual encounter. She had previously refused his request that she have an abortion. The woman was 13 weeks pregnant at the time; Woodward had tried to slip her the drug twice before his third attempt was successful.
