Louisiana Man Faces Felonies For Poisoning Teen Daughter, 1 Pound Grandbaby With Abortion Pills
Well I should hope so!
This is more proof that this drug should be removed from the market, or at the very least only be administered to a patient by a Dr.
How many times do we have to read that a boyfriend or someone else slips these drugs to a pregnant woman's food or drink? 🤔
This should not be something that can be ordered online, by anyone.
Pray for this poor woman and baby! 🙏
From the article:
‘This terrible case shows the dangers of mifepristone and its illegal, irresponsible, and unchecked distribution in our state,’ Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said.
A baby born at just 23 weeks gestation is in the hospital indefinitely after the infant’s grandfather allegedly slipped his teenage daughter an abortion pill that sickened her and resulted in an emergency caesarean section.
The alleged perpetrator, 39 year-old Jamelle Kelly, faces two felony charges, attempted first-degree feticide and domestic abuse/battery of a pregnant victim, after the Carencro Police Department determined he poisoned his 17 year-old with abortion pills that sent her to the hospital.
Louisiana prohibits both surgical and chemical abortions and classifies mifepristone, the most popular abortion pill on the market, as a controlled dangerous substance. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ongoing mail-order abortion scheme, however, has made it possible for people in pro-life states like Louisiana to order mifepristone straight to their doors.
It’s unclear exactly how Kelly specifically obtained the abortion pills he used on his daughter and grandbaby. What is clear is that the drug, which is only approved for abortions at 10 weeks gestation or less, caused the teen mom’s “illness” that required emergency medical intervention.
Mifepristone maker Danco Laboratories, the FDA, and corporate media insist that pregnancy-ending pills are safe. A 2025 analysis of insurance data, however, found that more than one in 10 women who take mifepristone suffer serious additional complications such as hemorrhage or infection. The risk of experiencing a life-threatening event linked to the abortion drug is at least 22 times higher than what the FDA and Danco claim.
Unlike many other reported abortion pill poisonings, both the teen mom and her baby, who was born at just one pound, survived. Their journey to recovery, however, is far from over. Infants born at 23 weeks gestation average a 143-day stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and may suffer complications related to major developing organs such as the heart, lungs, and brain.
“My prayers are with this mother and her baby, now fighting for life,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill wrote on X. “This terrible case shows the dangers of mifepristone and its illegal, irresponsible, and unchecked distribution in our state. We’ve challenged the Biden administration’s reckless expansion of dangerous mail-order abortion drugs with no oversight at all from a doctor. This isn’t healthcare — it’s criminal battery and attempted murder. Anyone who secretly gives abortion drugs to a woman without her knowledge will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Murrill, who joined abortion pill poisoning survivor Rosalie Markezich in filing a landmark lawsuit against the FDA demanding an end to the agency’s “mail-order abortion scheme,” told The Federalist in February that the Trump administration’s hesitancy to shut down the illegal interstate abortion drug trafficking system or at least reinstate the mifepristone safeguards stripped by the Biden administration are prolonging harm to states and women and babies.
“We can’t wait forever for them to do it,” Murrill said. “People are suffering severe consequences from this. The system is suffering too.”
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser used the latest example of abortion pill poisoning to “call on [Acting United States Attorney General Todd] Blanche’s DOJ to settle with Louisiana by agreeing to a court-ordered consent decree that would end Biden’s unlawful mail-order abortion drug policy and restore in-person dispensing immediately while the FDA completes a prompt, rigorous safety review.”
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that the FDA, under acting commissioner Kyle Diamantas, “kicked the [mifepristone] study into high gear because of conversations with antiabortion groups and a coming October deadline, set by a Louisiana judge this spring as part of ongoing litigation over the abortion pill.”
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