FL Man Tricks Pregnant Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Pill (VIDEO)

Here’s the thing about the whole concept of “pro-choice” ideology. It’s about CHOICE. If a woman chooses to not continue a pregnancy, she should be free to make that choice. If a woman chooses to continue a pregnancy and have a baby, she should be free to make that choice.

Do you see all of the instances of the words “choice” and “choose” in my first paragraph??C H O I C E. Men seem to “get” the concept of choice and free will when it serves their own purposes. After all, our entire country was founded on the principal of personal freedom. At what point do women get to take for granted the rights of free will and choice? At what point are women not subjected to the whims of men?

The pro-choice movement doesn’t only protect a woman’s right to end a pregnancy. The idea that a woman should control what goes on in her own body carries over to continuing a pregnancy. But a Florida man decided that he would take things into his own hands.

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PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

When Remee Jo Lee, 27, told her boyfriend of seven months — John Andrew Welden — that she was six weeks pregnant, he wasn’t as thrilled as she was. He texted her😕‘Oh God, I want to die. Are you serious?’?Remee, please don’t do this, I beg you. I am destroyed.’

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Tampa Bay Times

Welden’s primary reason for being so under-joyed about Lee’s pregnancy is that he had another girlfriend and he didn’t want the other woman to find out. He had enjoyed a long relationship with Tara Fillinger — a relationship which he told Remee Lee had ended.

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Tara Fillenger Facebook and Daily Mail UK

Welden, 29, sent Lee to his father’s obstetrics clinic for a blood workup. He then told her that she had a bacterial infection and that she needed to take Amoxicillin. But he wasn’t feeding her Amoxicillin. It was actually Cytotec, a pill that induces abortion. Within hours after taking just one pill, Lee was in the emergency room being informed that the fetus had no heartbeat.

Welden later admitted to?tampering with the prescription bottle and scratching off lettering on the Cytotec pills so that Lee would be fooled.

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Weldon, who was working on a degree in sports medicine, has a biopolar disorder diagnosis, but witnesses at his sentencing hearing described him as a?”loving, loyal, devout and selfless young man.” The private security guards who made sure he didn’t flee while out on bail also wrote glowing recommendations on his behalf.

One addressed the court about the character Welden has shown since his arrest last year and the late-night Bible studies he had with his father.

He did something terrible, his supporters agreed, but they also said it was a single mistake in an otherwise clean life. If shown mercy, they said, Welden still could go contribute to making the world a better place. (Tampa Tribune)

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ABC Action News

Actually, what he did is what has been done to women for millennia — he interfered with a woman’s right to make decisions about her life and about her own body. Lee’s family wasn’t as generous in their condemnation of Welden.

Lee’s family said they also once had a high opinion of Welden, who came to their house nearly every day for almost a year. But now they see him a something different – a callous, calculating pothead who killed his own child so his other girlfriend wouldn’t find out.

?He had me fooled 100 percent,? said James Edward Lee, the victim’s father.?

?This was not a mistake,? said her mother, Rosa Lee. ?He made a plan and followed through with it.???(Tampa Tribune)

Welden was sentenced to 13 years at a prison camp, restitution of $28,000, and three years probation upon his release from prison.

?I don’t believe Mr. Welden’s an evil person, but he committed an evil act,? said the presiding?Judge Richard Al Lazzara said,??and he’s going to pay the consequences.? (NY Daily News)

This was a young man from a wealthy family. His Dad is a doctor and John Andrew Lee himself was in medical school. Remee Jo Lee was a dancer at a gentleman’s club, which is where she and Welden met. Reports say that Welden was worried about Fillinger finding out about the pregnancy. From Daily Mail UK:

After she lost the fetus in the hospital, she went to police and agreed to have her conversations with Welden recorded.

‘I was hoping that this was some sort of horrible mistake,’ Lee said. ‘He told me what the medication was, and it was Cytotec.’

Authorities released a transcript of a conversation Lee had with Welden.

Welden told Lee that Tara Fillinger, his other girlfriend, had found out about their relationship and was ‘furious’.

Lee says: ‘If you wanted to go be with Tara, that’s fine. Go be with Tara.

‘I woulda had my kid and I woulda been fine with that… woulda told my parents it was someone else’s. I wouldn’t have bothered you for money. I wouldn’t have bothered you at all.’

‘I didn’t want to be that guy,’ Welden replies.

‘So you’re going to be the guy that goes and just kills the baby without even letting me know?’ Miss Lee says. ‘To save your own precious hide? Right?’

Welden responds: ‘I guess. If I saved anything, I didn’t really save anything.’

Welden also takes time during his conversation with Miss Hill to pity himself.

‘My life is over,’ he whines. ‘I just wanna kill myself.’

After he admits to giving Lee the abortion drug he says: ‘I’m just a horrible person, Remee. I’m sorry I ruined everything.’

News outlets are calling this story an unusual case. But it’s not. It’s a story as old as time.?This seems pretty simple to me. A wealthy young man has a long-term serious girlfriend but wants to bang a hot stripper on the side, so he lies to said hot stripper so that he can bang her…for seven months. The stripper has the audacity to think that this young man actually cares about her. They practice unprotected sex and she becomes pregnant. The wealthy young man is pissed. How inconvenient. This isn’t how his life was supposed to be. This fiasco will cut short HIS dreams and goals and he must stop her at all costs. Who the heck is she, anyhow? He certainly didn’t want to marry the stripper, and he didn’t want to be “that guy” who has an illegitimate child. So a guy does what a guy has to do.

What makes this story unusual is that the outcome is different from the old story. This time, the law was on the side of a woman and her C H O I C E.

There are advocates out there who are pleading the case of Welden’s choice. Doesn’t he have the right to choose whether or not he wants to be a father or not? It’s complicated. I totally understand the plight of fathers without rights and have a long history of supporting them. But the right of a woman — to CHOOSE what she wants to do with her life and her body — trumps everything else. Remee Jo Lee is lucky that she escaped with her life. He could have just as easily simply killed her to get rid of his little problem.

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