Man who tricked gf into taking abortion pill gets nearly 14-year sentence

[green73]

The Florida man accused of tricking his (now ex) girlfriend into taking an abortion inducing drug to cause her to miscarry their unborn child has been sentenced to nearly 14 years behind bars.

U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara sentenced 29-year-old John Andrew Welden Monday, saying that while he did not think Weldon was an evil person, his action was evil.

“[A]nd for that he is going to have to pay the consequences,” Lazzara said, according to the Tampa Bay Times, sentencing Welden to 13 years and eight months in prison.

Welden accepted a plea deal last year to avoid a possible life sentence if convicted of murder under the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, instead pleading to product tampering and mail fraud.

Welden found himself facing a possible life sentence after his girlfriend Remee Jo Lee refused to abort their baby and he tricked her into taking a Cytotec pill, resulting in her miscarriage.

She was nearly seven weeks pregnant.

“He took away the most precious thing I ever had.” Lee said during the sentencing, according to Bay News 9. “This isn’t just a case to me. This is the death of my child.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/27/m...-pill-sentenced-to-nearly-14-years-in-prison/

 

[tod evans]

So a woman can abort their baby without the fathers consent and receive no legal consequence.

But if a man does the exact same thing he's imprisoned for 14 years.

How can anyone twist this scenario into any form of justice?

 

[puppetmaster]

So fucked up....I so many ways

 

[mrsat_98]

So a woman can abort their baby without the fathers consent and receive no legal consequence.

But if a man does the exact same thing he's imprisoned for 14 years.

How can anyone twist this scenario into any form of justice?

I am thinking this might be an example of what "man or other animals" means.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Welden accepted a plea deal last year to avoid a possible life sentence if convicted of murder under the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, instead pleading to product tampering and mail fraud.

Hope he appeals

 

[tod evans]

Hope he appeals

He accepted a plea, there is no appeal.

 

[Christian Liberty]

So a woman can abort their baby without the fathers consent and receive no legal consequence.

But if a man does the exact same thing he's imprisoned for 14 years.

How can anyone twist this scenario into any form of justice?

You can't. I'm still glad the murderer is behind bars, but it is not just that women can do it.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

He accepted a plea, there is no appeal.

Forgot that. Then I hope for something else.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Forgot that. Then I hope for something else.

I just wish he got more time. 14 years isn't nearly enough for child murder.

 

[belian78]

I just wish he got more time. 14 years isn't nearly enough for child murder.

14 years in a min/max, 7 with good time and up for parole after 4...or...financially broken for 18.

 

[Origanalist]

14 years in a min/max, 7 with good time and up for parole after 4...or...financially broken for 18.

That sounds really bad, you may want to rephrase that.

 

[belian78]

That sounds really bad, you may want to rephrase that.

I know it sounds bad, and I'm not saying I agree with it, but the rationale is there.

 

[Christian Liberty]

14 years in a min/max, 7 with good time and up for parole after 4...or...financially broken for 18.

This only reenforces my point, doesn't it?

 

[belian78]

This only reenforces my point, doesn't it?

Abortion should in no way be used as birth control, but I also don't consider voiding a mass of cells from your body as murder either. I was merely pointing out the rationale that might have been running through that guys' head. That's all I'll say on the abortion issue, because frankly I find it to be a needless waste of time when there are many other pressing issues that need our attention. Many of which would inadvertently have a huge impact on how people felt about abortion.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Abortion should in no way be used as birth control, but I also don't consider voiding a mass of cells from your body as murder either. I was merely pointing out the rationale that might have been running through that guys' head. That's all I'll say on the abortion issue, because frankly I find it to be a needless waste of time when there are many other pressing issues that need our attention. Many of which would inadvertently have a huge impact on how people felt about abortion.

How?

With regards to that whole thing, I don't view it as a waste of time, but I do recognize that the GOP is not pro-life and that even the pro-choice libertarians are more pro-life in practice than most Republicans ("pro-life" Rick Santorum voted to fund planned parenthood, which a libertarian would never do). But I don't see murder of the unborn as unimportant.

If you don't see abortion as murder, why do you care if its used as birth control? That seems illogical to me.

 

[Origanalist]

I know it sounds bad, and I'm not saying I agree with it, but the rationale is there.

Fair enough. Sorry for the knee jerk.

 

[Czolgosz]

And he actually showed up to be railroaded? lol

 

[kcchiefs6465]

And he actually showed up to be railroaded? lol

He ended their baby's life without so much as a care.

Railroaded? He deserved more.

The blatant hypocrisy aside.

 

[tod evans]

14 years in a min/max, 7 with good time and up for parole after 4...or...financially broken for 18.

Federal time is 85%.........

 

[Czolgosz]

He ended their baby's life without so much as a care.

Railroaded? He deserved more.

The blatant hypocrisy aside.

7 weeks prego, nah. Punishment for the decption, probably.