By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An air force staffer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his unborn child after spiking his wife’s food with an ulcer drug that can also be used to cause abortion.
According to a report appearing on LifeNews.com, Airman 1st Class Scott Boie of Milton, Wisconsin, who is stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, found out his wife Caylinn was pregnant and asked her to get an abortion. When she refused, he began searching the Internet for abortion drugs.
The search led him to Misoprostol, a stomach ulcer drug that is often used by pro-abortion groups in conjunction with the chemical abortion drug RU-486 to cause a miscarriage.
Boie obtained the pills from a friend, which he crushed and mixed into his wife’s food. A week later, she lost the child.
During the court martial, Mrs. Boie said she believed the miscarriage had occurred naturally until she learned from a friend what her husband had done. She confronted him and tape-recorded a confession that was played during the court hearing.
A jury, made up of 10 members of the Air Force, acquitted Boie of killing the baby. Instead, they convicted him on lesser charges of attempting to kill an unborn child.
Had he been convicted on the more serious offense, Boie would have faced a maximum of 26 1/2 years in prison.
In addition to his jail sentence, Boie has been dishonorably discharged from the Air Force demoted to E-1, and, according to a KTUU report, hit with a “total forfeiture of all pay and allowances.”
“In this case, the military is prosecuting crimes against two victims — a mother who survived, and an unborn child who died,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of National Right to Life.
“The killing of the unborn child is being prosecuted under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was enacted in 2004 after a five-year effort led by NRLC. We should remember that this law was enacted only over the vigorous objections of the pro-abortion lobby — the same pro-abortion lobby that seeks to pack the Supreme Court with justices who would obliterate any shred of protection for unborn children,” he added.
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