Army Capt. Jailed For Killing His Unborn Child With Abortion Pills
A U.S.Army captain, Brandon Jones-Adams, faces a 12-year prison sentence after admitting to poisoning his pregnant girlfriend, a fellow soldier, with mail-order abortion pills that resulted in the death of thier unborn child. The incident occurred while they were stationed in Washington, after he had impregnated her in South korea. Prosecutors described his actions as deliberate and malicious, and forensic evidence revealed he sought to obtain abortion drugs, including attempting to order mifepristone under a fake name, exploiting relaxed mail-order policies. The woman was over 13 weeks pregnant,exceeding the FDA’s recommended limit for safe chemical abortion. the case highlights concerns over the widespread availability and misuse of mail-order abortion pills, which pose meaningful health risks, especially when used beyond recommended gestational limits. Jones-Adams pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including murder of the unborn child, domestic violence, and conduct unbecoming an officer, and was sentenced to maximum imprisonment and dismissal from the Army. Experts and officials condemned his actions and emphasized the dangers of unregulated online access to abortion drugs, which can lead to coercion, injury, or death for women. The article underscores ongoing issues related to mail-order abortion pills being used beyond safe limits and the potential for abuse.
A U.S. Army captain will serve 12 years in military prison after he pleaded guilty to secretly slipping his pregnant girlfriend, another soldier, a mail-order abortion drug that killed their unborn baby.
Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams impregnated a junior enlisted soldier when the two became romantically involved on rotation in South Korea in May 2025. A couple of months later, the pair was reassigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
It was there in August 2025 that the 34-year-old captain, in what army prosecutors called a “deliberate, calculated, and malicious” act, spiked his partner’s drink with abortion drugs that sent her to the emergency room with severe cramping. The soldier reportedly suspected that Jones-Adams drugged her after noticing residue in the bottom of her cup.
According to a forensic examination of Jones-Adams’ phone, the captain tried repeatedly leading up to the poisoning to obtain the most popular chemical abortion means, mifepristone, “from other sources.” When those failed, he enlisted a fake name to order the abortion pills online, a move only made possible by the Trump FDA’s continuation of the Biden administration’s radically relaxed mail-order abortion pill policies.
At the time of the abortion pill poisoning, the junior soldier was 13 weeks pregnant, more than three weeks further along than the 10-week gestation limit set in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s mifepristone prescription requirements.
Already, one in 10 women who take mifepristone suffer a serious adverse event such as hemorrhage or infection. The risk of contracting a life-threatening side effect linked to pill-induced abortion — which data suggests is at least 22 times higher than what the FDA and mifepristone maker Danco Laboratories claim — only increases for a mother whose pregnancy is further along than 10 weeks.
Research suggests that 81 percent of online abortion businesses mail mifepristone to be used by women who exceed the 10-week limit. Data also indicates that the estimated hundreds of thousands of women who down those abortion pills each year don’t feel fully informed about the physical, mental, and emotional effects linked to chemical abortion.
Jones-Adams ultimately pleaded guilty to murdering his unborn child, domestic violence, fraternization, and conduct unbecoming an officer shortly after admitting to investigators in the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division that he spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with abortion pills. He was not only sentenced to serve the maximum prison time for his plea bargain, but is also dismissed from the army without pay or allowances.
“By committing these crimes, he inflicted profound harm on his victim and betrayed the trust placed in him as an Army officer. Today’s sentence holds him accountable for his conduct and provides a measure of justice and closure for those harmed,” Circuit Chief Lt. Col. Tyler Heimann, Sixth Circuit, Army Office of Special Trial Counsel, said in a statement.
“What Mr. Jones-Adams did was a disgusting act that killed an unborn child and violated the victim’s trust and autonomy in the most personal way,” Special Agent in Charge Michele Starostka of Army CID’s Western Field Office added.
The prevalence of mail-order mifepristone has paved the way for abuse and injury to plague women who wanted to keep their babies. A majority of abortions, 70 percent, are already believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires. The years following the Biden administration’s expansion of mail-order mifepristone, however, have yielded even more horror stories from women across the nation like Rosalie Markezich, one of the plaintiffs in a landmark abortion pill case, who are susceptible to injuries and even death linked to mifepristone, especially when taking it unknowingly or under duress.
Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of “The Federalist Radio Hour.” Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
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