Yet another man has poisoned his pregnant girlfriend, against her will, with abortion pills. This recent case out of Texas is only the latest to unmask the abortion pill as America’s most insidious, on-demand executioner of innocent unborn children, while turning vulnerable mothers into collateral victims in the process.

In Montgomery County, just north of Houston, 25-year-old Jon Rueben Gabriel Demeter now faces aggravated assault charges after authorities say he secretly slipped the abortion drug mifepristone to his pregnant girlfriend without her knowledge or consent. The young woman repeatedly expressed her desire to carry the pregnancy to term and even named the unborn child Presley Mae. Yet investigators report that Demeter covertly administered the medication, forcing an end to the pregnancy she fought to protect.

The chaos unfolded on Saturday, February 21, when deputies rushed to a hospital in The Woodlands after the stillbirth. Demeter had repeatedly pressured her to abort, even offering to pay for out-of-state travel to circumvent Texas law. However, she refused every time. After poisoning her, the boyfriend eventually turned himself in and was booked into jail. His family claims “there’s another side to the story,” but the facts paint a grim picture: Prosecutors have classified the act as family violence involving a deadly weapon.

The case reveals an intersection of personal betrayal and the broader national fight over abortion access. Texas law enforcement has ramped up crackdowns on out-of-state networks mailing abortion pills, with the surge of similar criminal cases underscoring the grave dangers of unregulated, mail-order access.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has now announced a lawsuit against the international “abortion-by-mail” network Aid Access and its operators, including physicians Rebecca Gomperts and Remy Coeytaux. The suit targets the group’s alleged illegal shipment of abortion-inducing drugs into major Texas cities like Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and El Paso — defying state law and openly advertising services nationwide.

Paxton cited over 200,000 facilitated abortions since 2018 and referenced a 2025 Nueces County poisoning case as evidence of real-world harm. As noted in a press release, “Aid Access’s illegal conduct is not hypothetical. These unlawful shipments have had real and devastating consequences for Texas families.” Paxton himself declared, “Every unborn child is a life worth protecting. Radicals sending abortion-inducing drugs into our state will be held accountable for ending innocent life.” However, Texas isn’t acting alone. Nationwide scrutiny over mifepristone access is intensifying.

In a recent Senate confirmation hearing for Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means, a wellness advocate and ally of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative. Means remained noncommittal on mifepristone policy, claiming it falls outside the surgeon general’s direct role. She emphasized the need for thorough doctor-patient discussions on risks and benefits but offered no clear support for restoring in-person dispensing requirements. Instead, she expressed broad neutrality: “I do believe that every patient needs to have a very thorough conversation with their doctor before taking any medication. Unfortunately, in our current health care system, because of how overburdened doctors are, this often?doesn’t?happen, whether?it’s?in person or online.”

Yet, for pro-life advocates who view chemical abortion as a silent killer responsible for mass destruction — accounting for roughly 63% of all U.S. abortions, fueled largely by Biden-era mail-order policies — her response fell far short. But rather than retreat, those defending life are doubling down, demanding urgent course correction.

This momentum is evident in Congress, with 60 members, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), filing an amicus brief in the case of Louisiana v. FDA. The brief backs Louisiana’s challenge to the Biden-era policy that eliminated in-person dispensing for mifepristone. At its core, the argument states that by “expressly authorizing mail-order chemical abortion drugs, the FDA is endangering women’s health and safety by eliminating a medically necessary in-person examination to screen for contraindications.”

And the stakes go deeper than medical safeguards. The brief emphasizes that mail-order abortion enables and escalates domestic abuse. “Telehealth ineffectively screens women seeking chemical abortions for domestic violence or coercion, subjecting those women to increased harm. Even worse, some mail-order abortionists are choosing not to even confirm whether the recipient is a pregnant woman who desires an abortion.”

Echoing these concerns, the Family Research Council, alongside renowned psychiatrist Dr. Martha Shuping, filed its own amicus brief in Louisiana v. FDA. It blasts the agency’s lax approach, stating that “the FDA’s action has enabled a flood of abortion drugs to be released into society without any in-person interaction between the pregnant woman and a medical professional. A single ‘nonprofit asynchronous telemedicine service’ mailed 118,338 abortion drug packs between July 2023 and September 2024. Yet FDA never considered the reality that many women will be coerced with these drugs if men, family members, and abusers can easily obtain them via remote means with no protection against coercion.”

FRC President Tony Perkins tied it directly to cases like the one in Texas, where the medical system — meant to serve as a “safety valve” for abused women — has instead become a tool for further exploitation. “Here,” he said, “it is allowing them to be exploited even further, where they’re being given, surreptitiously, drugs that not only kill their babies but harm their own lives.” As pro-lifers have been warning, so long as abortion pills flow unchecked through the mail, vulnerable women and their unborn children remain at grave risk. Perhaps the fight to restore protections, hold abusers accountable, and defend innocent life has never been more urgent.