UK – Man who forced abortion has sentence increased by five years

A man who gave medication to a woman and caused her to miscarry has had his sentence increased.

Attorney General's Office and Lucy Rigby KC MP
27 February 2025

Stuart Worby, 40, from Malthouse Court, Dereham, has had his sentence increased to 17 years after it was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.

The court heard that in 2022, after failing to convince the victim to terminate her pregnancy, Worby administered two drugs designed to induce miscarriages to the victim without her consent.

Continued: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/man-who-forced-abortion-has-sentence-increased-by-five-years

27.02.2025

UK – Man jailed for poisoning woman with abortion drugs

Dec 6, 2024
Clare Worden, BBC News

A man has been jailed for 12 years for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman and giving her medication to cause a miscarriage.

Prosecutors said Stuart Worby administered the drugs in a glass of orange juice and when the victim was blindfolded under the guise of what they said was "kinky sex".

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered a miscarriage in hospital within hours of the assault.

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje0p1dlzleo

Jailed Protester Says Cuba Tried to Pressure Her to Have Abortion

By Graham Keeley
March 13, 2024

MADRID — A woman serving an eight-year prison sentence related to protests in Cuba says that prison authorities tried to force her to have an abortion.

Lisdany Rodriguez Isaac had always wanted a baby, so when the 25-year-old discovered she was pregnant after a conjugal visit from her partner, Luis Ernesto Jimenez, she was determined to have the baby.

Continued: https://www.voanews.com/a/jailed-protester-says-cuba-tried-to-pressure-her-to-have-abortion/7526323.html

13.03.2024

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Luis Ernesto Jimenez

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Cuban police want to force a political prisoner to have an abortion

Is abortion a choice or a political issue in Cuba? The current Cuban Penal Code assumes it as a crime when it is carried out without the consent of the mother

CARLA GLORIA COLOMÉ
FEB 20, 2024

Lisdany Rodríguez is not going to have an abortion. It is the decision she made from her cell at the Guajamal women’s prison, and that her husband supports from his detention at the El Yabú men’s prison. If everything goes well, and the Cuban political police do not make Lisdany abort the fetus, in nine months a baby will be born who will not live with its parents. They will be serving their sentences for demonstrating against the government.

When the police took Lisdany into custody after the protests on July 11, 2021, her partner, Luis Ernesto Jiménez, had been in prison for a few months for running a black market business. A few days after their last conjugal visit, Lisdany felt a little discomfort in her body and stopped having her period. The first pregnancy test was positive. An ultrasound test confirmed that she was seven weeks and five days pregnant.

Continued: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-02-20/cuban-police-want-to-force-a-political-prisoner-to-have-an-abortion.html

Is Russia Heading Toward an Abortion Ban?

Russia on the Record
Nov 17, 2023
Podcast: 49 minutes

The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to allow abortion, and until this year, modern Russia has had some of the world’s most liberal abortion legislation.

But in recent months, several Russian regions have pursued anti-abortion policies ranging from outlawing the so-called act of “coercing women” into having an abortion — which could also be interpreted as banning any information about safe abortion — to banning the procedure in private clinics.

Continued: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/17/is-russia-heading-toward-an-abortion-ban-a83144j

17.11.2023

The Abortion Assault: Nigerian military ran secret mass abortion programme in war against Boko Haram

Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say.

By PAUL CARSTEN, READE LEVINSON, DAVID LEWIS and LIBBY GEORGE in MAIDUGURI, Nigeria
Portrait photography and videos by CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE and PAUL CARSTEN
Filed Dec. 7, 2022

FATI wondered if her life was over.

Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells exploded. Bullets whipped by. As her captors fled, Fati blacked out in terror.

Continued: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-abortions/

07.12.2022

US Donors Are Helping Push Anti-Abortion Agendas in British Schools

A British anti-abortion group that gives talks in schools has received over £72,000 from the US over the last 2 years, VICE World News can reveal.

By Sophia Smith Galer
May 30, 2022

An anti-abortion group in the UK that gives talks to schoolchildren and medical professionals about what it terms “coerced abortion” is receiving tens of thousands of dollars from anonymous US-based backers, VICE World News can reveal.

Nearly £73,000 ($91,885, €85,330) has been donated anonymously via a donor agency called NPT Transatlantic in the past two years to the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child’s (SPUC) registered charity, one of the UK’s most active anti-abortion groups. The agency allows US and UK taxpayers to donate to organisations across the Atlantic without revealing their name and without qualifying for any tax deduction.

Continued: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93be83/anti-abortion-schools-uk

UK – Married civil servant accused of lacing lover’s drink with abortion drug

Laura Slade says she found powdery residue at the bottom of the glass after he insisted she drink from it

Caroline Davies and agency
Tue 26 Apr 2022

A woman who became pregnant during an affair with a married senior civil servant told a court he looked “very flustered” before preparing a drink for her allegedly spiked with an abortion drug.

Darren Burke, 43, a deputy director for the emergency services mobile communications programme at the Home Office, is accused of trying to cause Laura Slade’s miscarriage.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/26/married-civil-servant-accused-of-lacing-mistresss-drink-with-anti-abortion-drug

26.04.2022

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Nigeria – 53-year old man, nurse arraigned over forced abortion on 14-year-old girl in Lagos

By Otuya Daniel
December 6, 2021

A 53-year old man, Adekunle Aladesanmi, and a nurse, Wuraola Ibrahim have been arraigned before the Ogba Magistrates Court in Lagos state for allegedly inducing an abortion on a 14-year old girl.

According to a report by PM Express, the incident happened at Temidire Street, Ajegunle, Apapa area of Lagos, where they reside.

Continued: https://thestreetjournal.org/53-year-old-man-nurse-arraigned-over-forced-abortion-on-14-year-old-girl-in-lagos/

06.12.2021

Rape and pregnancy of 11-year-old reignites abortion debate in Bolivia

By Maite Fernández Simon
Oct 29, 2021

The case of an 11-year-old who is 22 weeks pregnant has reignited the debate around abortion in Bolivia.

The girl had been in the care of her 61-year-old step-grandfather, who allegedly raped her, in the town of Yapacaní, in the Santa Cruz province, for more than five months, while her mother and stepfather were in La Paz for work.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/29/abortion-bolivia-girl-catholic-church/