{"id":2613633,"date":"2026-06-12T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-man-charged-with-drugging-23-week-pregnant-woman-with-abortion-pill\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:02","slug":"louisiana-man-charged-with-drugging-23-week-pregnant-woman-with-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-man-charged-with-drugging-23-week-pregnant-woman-with-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana man charged with drugging 23-week pregnant woman with abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flouisiana-man-charged-with-drugging-23-week-pregnant-woman-with-abortion-pill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613633&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\">Louisiana<\/a> man was arrested Friday on felony charges after allegedly giving a pregnant woman the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\">abortion pill<\/a> mifepristone without her knowledge, forcing her to undergo an emergency delivery that has left the infant hospitalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamelle Kelly, 39, is accused of first-degree feticide and domestic abuse of a pregnant woman, according to the Carencro Police Department in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4607032\/spencer-pratt-incriminating-footage-karen-bass-nithya-raman-la-mayoral-race\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Spencer Pratt says he has incriminating footage of Karen Bass or Nithya Raman<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4606486\/bystander-shot-secret-service-near-white-house-army\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Bystander shot during Secret Service-involved incident near White House was a soldier<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4606576\/dead-dozens-injured-active-shooter-midland-texas\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>One dead and 10 injured in active shooter situation in Midland, Texas: Mayor<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The risk of abortion coercion has been a chief argument of anti-abortion activists in trying to get the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fda\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fda\/\">Food and Drug Administration<\/a> to reinstate safety protocols that require women to have an in-person doctor visit before receiving a prescription for mifepristone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mifepristone is involved in nearly two-thirds of the roughly <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4501520\/abortions-increased-2025-guttmacher-institute-data\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4501520\/abortions-increased-2025-guttmacher-institute-data\/\">1.1 million abortions<\/a> in the United States each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/06\/12\/la-man-accused-giving-abortion-medication-unknowing-victim-forcing-emergency-delivery\/#\">WAFB of Baton Rouge, Louisiana<\/a>, reported that the Carencro Police Chief David Anderson said the investigation began late last month when detectives learned the victim was given the medication without her consent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim, whose identity has not been disclosed, was admitted to the hospital, where she required an emergency C-section at 23 weeks of gestation. The infant survived the surgery, weighing roughly one pound, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anderson told local media that, as of Friday, the infant remains hospitalized and will have to stay for an extended period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been two other documented cases of alleged coerced abortion in Louisiana since the FDA removed in-person screening requirements to obtain the pills in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2025, a Louisiana grand jury <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3307532\/louisiana-grand-jury-indicts-new-york-doctor-mailing-abortion-pills\/\">criminally indicted<\/a> New York physician Margaret Carpenter on a charge of prescribing abortion pills to a woman who prosecutors say coerced her teenage daughter into a medication abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors say the pregnant minor\u2019s mother obtained mifepristone and misoprostol online from Carpenter, who shipped the drugs to Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case of Rosalie Markezich, who said she was pressured by her boyfriend to take abortion pills after he used her information to obtain them online, is being litigated federally by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who is seeking to require the FDA to reinstate the in-person screening requirements for the drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After much <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4552077\/appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-mail-order-abortion-nationwide\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4552077\/appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-mail-order-abortion-nationwide\/\">back-and-forth<\/a> at the lower court level, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4568427\/supreme-court-lifts-block-on-mail-order-abortion-pills\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4568427\/supreme-court-lifts-block-on-mail-order-abortion-pills\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> decided last month that the FDA\u2019s allowance of telehealth abortion pill prescriptions can stand while the Louisiana case progresses through the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That decision was predicated on the fact that the FDA is conducting a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4596644\/fda-mifepristone-study-pressure-trump-right-flank\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4596644\/fda-mifepristone-study-pressure-trump-right-flank\/\">safety review<\/a> of data on complications from consensual mifepristone abortions, which Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4601598\/pro-life-activists-skeptical-fda-abortion-pill-study\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4601598\/pro-life-activists-skeptical-fda-abortion-pill-study\/\">promised<\/a> since the beginning of his tenure last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Men should not be able to obtain this drug and coerce women into abortions. <\/p>\n<p>FDA should immediately reinstate the in-person visit requirement for mifepristone. Women and babies should not remain at risk while FDA finishes its safety study.<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P2oAeRaKKk\">https:\/\/t.co\/P2oAeRaKKk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenBillCassidy\/status\/2065520663259947202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-cassidy\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2103\">Sen. Bill Cassidy<\/a> (R-LA) shared the new case involving Kelly on X, saying, \u201cMen should not be able to obtain this drug and coerce women into abortions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFDA should immediately reinstate the in-person visit requirement for mifepristone,\u201d he said. \u201cWomen and babies should not remain at risk while the FDA finishes its safety study.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cassidy, a physician by training, has led the charge in the Senate in pressuring the FDA to hasten its safety review of mifepristone as well as reinstitute in-person screening requirements for the drug.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate health committee, which Cassidy chairs, had a hearing in January regarding <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4418708\/coerced-abortion-center-stage-senate-hearing-pills\/\">cases of coerced abortion<\/a> that have arisen since abortion pills first became available online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4602553\/gop-attorneys-general-demand-abortion-pill-water-safety-tests-epa\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4602553\/gop-attorneys-general-demand-abortion-pill-water-safety-tests-epa\/\">GOP ATTORNEYS GENERAL DEMAND ABORTION PILL WATER SAFETY TESTS FROM EPA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the two cases in Louisiana, Sens. Jon Husted (R-OH) and Ashley Moody (R-FL) outlined cases in their respective states of abusive male partners allegedly drugging their pregnant significant others to induce abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/reproductive-coercion-and-abortion\/\">2025 Australian study<\/a> found that nearly 3% of women from a countrywide sample have been \u201cpressured, threatened, or forced\u201d to have an abortion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Louisiana man was arrested Friday on felony charges after allegedly giving a pregnant woman the abortion pill mifepristone without her knowledge, forcing her to undergo an emergency delivery that has left the infant hospitalized.\u00a0 Jamelle Kelly, 39, is accused of first-degree feticide and domestic abuse of a pregnant woman, according to the Carencro Police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"featured_media":2613634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26099558539961.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26099558539961.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}