(LifeSiteNews) — A 32-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after “inserting four abortion pills into his pregnant girlfriend without her consent,” according to NPR. Emerson Evan pleaded guilty to “voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child” earlier this month after being arrested last August.
Initially, Evans had faced three counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child and one of “aggravated assault of a pregnant person” and one count of voluntary manslaughter.
Legally, abortion is treated as “health care” in Illinois and is legal up until 24-26 weeks. But the phrase “unborn child” has a split meaning under Illinois law. In the context of abortion, the Reproductive Health Act emphasizes that “a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this State.”
Thus, an unborn child can be killed in the womb for any reason. But under criminallaw, an unborn child is defined thusly: “Any individual of the human species from fertilization (or implantation in some sections) until live birth.”
In short, an unborn child is recognized as human under criminal homicide law in Illinois — that’s what put Emerson Evan in jail. But that same unborn child could have been legally killed, with pills or otherwise, under Illinois’ abortion law. This is legal schizophrenia, but Illinois legislators see no reason to reconcile this moral absurdity.
It is also worth noting that Emerson Evan’s case is not rare. As the abortion pill industry has made at-home DIY abortions the new normative method for killing unborn children, deadbeat dads have discovered a lethal new way of avoiding fatherhood. Last month, for example, Jon Demeter was charged with first-degree murder in a Texas court after killing his unborn child by spiking his girlfriend’s drink with an abortion pill.
Last year, Texas man Justin Bantin was also charged with capital murder after slipping an abortion pill into his girlfriend’s drink; he had offered to pay for an abortion, but she had wanted to keep the baby. In 2024, a Houston attorney was jailed after putting abortion drugs in his wife’s drinks multiple times; the baby survived but was born 10 weeks premature and suffers from developmental delays as a result.
In Massachusetts, a man was charged in 2024 for giving his girlfriend abortion pills, claiming that they were vitamins. Their baby was killed as a result. A Washington man was jailed last year after assaulting his mistress and forcing abortion pills inside her. An Ohio doctor was charged last year after force-feeding his sleeping girlfriend abortion pills. A Louisiana man forced his daughter to take an abortion pill earlier this year; the baby was born at one pound.
That’s not to mention the New York abortionist indicted in Louisiana after she sent abortion pills to a woman who then forced her daughter to take them even though she wanted her baby. The girl suffered a medical emergency as a result of taking the pills and had to be rushed to the hospital, where she was treated and, thankfully, stabilized. The abortionist allegedly fled to Ireland.
The abortion pill has made forced feticide criminally easy, and new horror stories surface almost weekly. In many of these cases, the abortion pills are sent into states where unborn children are protected under law by criminals who are granted immunity by activist legislators. In others, the unborn children targeted are recognized as children only if they were wanted when they were killed — that is, when it is too late for the protection to matter.
