Unborn Victims and Their Moms

 

Kansas pro-life law helps prosecute cases of abortion-by-deceit

By Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Director, Kansans for Life

Scott Robert Bollig

It has been well documented for decades that pregnant women have been attacked–and even murdered–in order to kill their unborn children. The development of abortion-inducing drugs, however, has produced a number of cases of abortion-by trickery.
There was nationwide news coverage of the trial and conviction this January of Floridian John Andrew Welden. Welden forged the signature of his father, an obstetrician, to obtain abortion-inducing drugs. Welden scratched off the label and relabeled it as amoxicillin, a common antibiotic, and told his pregnant girlfriend that his father said she had an infection and told her to take the mislabeled medication.

Now comes the indictment of a Kansas man for sneaking crushed abortion pills into his girlfriend’s pancakes, killing their unborn child.
On Tuesday, the office of Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued a criminal complaint charging Scott Robert Bollig with first degree  murder, attempted first degree murder, aggravated battery and distributing adulterated food, causing the death of an unborn child at 8-10 weeks estimated gestation.

Part of the pro-life agenda has been to pass laws that uphold the full humanity of the unborn child, including full prosecution for both victims following crimes committed against pregnant women and their unborn children.

The criminal complaint against Bollig is based on just such a law– “Alexa’s Law,”– passed in Kansas in 2007, read more here and here.
Kansas was the 35th state (of now 37) to pass such a law, modeled on the 2003 federal ‘Unborn Victim of Violence Act designed by the National Right to Life Committee. Alexa’s Law protects unborn children beginning at fertilization through full term, while some states have enacted limited protection after viability.

Within six months of passage of Alexa’s Law, two pregnant women and their unborn children were murdered in Kansas, and their murderers convicted under this law. Here are the cases known to Kansans for Life that have since utilized Alexa’s Law for charging and convictions:
1. Sedale Fox was convicted of two first-degree murders for shooting his girlfriend to death and the death of their unborn child on Jan. 8, 2008.
2. Andrew Guerrero was convicted for three murders committed on Feb.3, 2008—his ex-wife, her 8-month-old infant and an additional unborn child detected in autopsy.
3. Jason Cott was convicted of two counts of first degree murder for the Jan. 20, 2010 strangulation of his wife and death of their unborn child.

4. Ricardo Barnhart was convicted of two counts of aggravated battery for the beating of his wife and injury to 38-week gestation unborn child on March 19, 2013; mother and child survived.
5. Richard Bennet was charged with 2 counts of attempted murder for the stabbing of his pregnant ex-girlfriend on June 18, 2013. she and the unborn child survived the attack. Bennet was sentenced to parole on lesser charges after the girlfriend later died in a freak accident before his trial.
6. Bryant Seba has been charged with two counts of first degree murder after he shot and killed his pregnant neighbor and unborn child on July 24, 2013.

7. Scott Bollig has been charged with first degree murder for the premeditated murder of his unborn child, Jan. 26, 2014; the mother survived, after being tricked into eating abortion-causing medication.
“Alexa’s Law”—a tool enacted to uphold the value of any human victim of crime– is being utilized to prosecute abortion “by deceit” which was not even envisioned when the law was passed.

Source: NRLC News