COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of pointing a handgun at his pregnant girlfriend and forcing her to drive to an abortion clinic has been charged with attempted murder under an Ohio law prohibiting the unlawful termination of a pregnancy, a prosecutor said Wednesday.Read the rest here.
Dominic L. Holt-Reid, 28, was arrested Oct. 6 as he waited for his girlfriend in the clinic's parking lot.
Columbus police initially charged him with kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon. A six-count Franklin County grand jury indictment returned Friday added other kidnapping and weapons counts, along with the attempted murder charge.
County prosecutor Ron O'Brien said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the attempted murder count was filed because Holt-Reid tried "at gunpoint to force her to have an abortion against her will."
This is going to rattle some legal cages.
Where's the rattling? In Ohio, an unlawful pregnancy termination is one in which someone nullifies the mother's choice to carry. It doesn't pertain to a mother's choice to terminate.
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