May he never enjoy the pleasure of a woman’s company ever again
Here’s an excellent story to illustrate the difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion, even if it is a horrific injustice to the woman involved. I have to wonder what kind of moral monster this guy is.
She wanted to have the baby. Suh didn’t. Instead, he told the judge, he impersonated the woman to open an online pharmacy account, ordered abortion medications, got Xanax from a friend to use as a sedative, and duped his girlfriend into drinking what she thought was just a prenatal protein shake. After waiting until she fell asleep, he administered the abortion pills orally and vaginally.
According to the woman’s lawsuit, Suh left her alone and incapacitated and ignored her attempts to contact him after she woke and realized she was bleeding. She called 911 and was hospitalized.
Jesus. This isn’t a moral dilemma at all — consent is essential, and Suh was ignoring the woman’s consent and putting her at risk medically, all so he could ignore the consequences of his actions. But he’s a man, so he blithely went on to university — two prestigious universities, no less — as if he hadn’t deeply harmed a woman he’d had sex with.
A onetime West Point cadet drugged his then-girlfriend in her barracks room, administered abortion pills to her against her will and caused a miscarriage. Then he went on to study at two Ivy League universities, starting at one of them after he pleaded guilty to assault, according to court records and a new lawsuit.
The man, Caleb Suh, graduated from Cornell University this year…
Oh, Cornell. Can Cornell’s reputation sink even lower? Have they no standards?
At least Suh pled guilty, although he hasn’t yet been sentenced. He’s also been hit with a lawsuit. Throw the book at him, please.
Bodily autonomy.
Controlling one’s own body.
That is what everyon should have the right to do.
How is this seemingy hard to comrehend for so many people?
This isn’t that unusual although the details vary.
Pregnant women are often assaulted or killed by their partners.
This victim is lucky to be alive.
It isn’t uncommon for these involuntary druggings to end up being lethal, homicides. When you drug people up to the point of unconsciousness, it doesn’t take much more to kill them.
I saw a case once that involved Xanax, the drug used in the OP. It wasn’t drugging by someone else. A young adult in rehab took Xanax, alcohol, and methadone. He died from positional asphyxia. Meaning he passed out and ended up in a position where it was difficult to breathe, dead at age 26.
Book? How ’bout a brick?
Well, that is certainly one of the more horrific acts of which I’ve heard.
Rape, pillage, murder: that’s what this country stands for!
When and how will the murderous, barbaric xtian terrorists, zionists, maga cult members and plutocrats be stopped.
There is a push to set up a register of domestic violence offenders so a potential partner can be checked out before entering into a possibly risky relationship. This creep is a perfect candidate to start the register with.
Context explanation — not an excuse, in many ways it makes this worse (the story is actually from last week so it’s not new to me; the other story indicates the pregnancy misconduct took place at West Point, with hints of other misconduct):
Military academy cadets are not permitted to be married or parents. Either is grounds for expulsion. I suspect that one factor in this individual’s decisionmaking process — a process that demonstrates he was not officer material in the first place — was fear of expulsion. That he ended up at another school isn’t “as bad” for later career/educational prospects as expulsion.
Conversely, they’ll give lieutenants forty or more children shortly after graduation and commissioning, so it’s certainly not about suitability for parenthood.
@2 – raven – “This victim is lucky to be alive.
It isn’t uncommon for these involuntary druggings to end up being lethal, homicides. When you drug people up to the point of unconsciousness, it doesn’t take much more to kill them.”
While reading I thought the positive is he didn’t kill her. That is a popular theme for men who don’t want their girlfriends to have their babies.
@-3- Erlend Meyer – ’bout bricks? There I fixed it.
And why aren’t the religious right fanatics calling this murder?
Gary Dargan @6
That’s a terrible idea. It’ll make it harder to intervene with perpetrators because the extra punishment will require a higher standard of proof to impose. There are also problems in family violence policy of misidentification of the primary aggressor: situations like people subject to emotional abuse and coercive control who get violent and then have the cops called on them
This is a classic situation where people want harsh punishments, but that doesn’t help resolve the underlying problems
@1: Because a large percentage of the population still doesn’t actually recognize women as being people.
As we have observed and In amplification of @10 microraptor: There are way too many rtwingnuts, xtian terrorists and fundamentalists of middle-eastern religions that consider women only as ‘breeders’ and indentured domestic servants!
In our organization, we consider women as respected partners and equals and we are glad to work with and/or for them.