Man Accused of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend Has Charges Related to Killing the Fetus Dropped -- Thanks to NY's New Abortion Law
Man Accused of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend Has Charges Related to Killing the Fetus Dropped -- Thanks to NY's New Abortion Law
Man Accused of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend Has Charges Related to Killing the Fetus Dropped — Thanks to NY’s New Abortion Law
February 9, 2019
A man charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriend has had the charges related to killing her unborn baby dropped — thanks to New York’s new abortion laws.
Anthony Hobson, 48, was arrested on Friday for Sunday’s grisly murder of Jennifer Irigoyen, 35, who was five months pregnant. He is accused of brutally stabbing her to death — and deliberately killing her unborn baby.
Initially, Hobson was charged with murder and second-degree abortion by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. However, the abortion charge has now been rescinded, thanks to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new Reproductive Health Act.
A witness told the New York Post that Irigoyen was screaming, “He’s got a knife! He’s going to kill the baby!” as Hobson dragged her from her apartment building.
“The defendant is alleged to have shown no mercy and no regard for human life when …
Her pregnancy was reason for the murder, and it is a charge that has stood in court. The dogma lives loudly in them, to adapt a stupid phrasr, to put aside this motivation for the crime, to downgrade a life to an evidentiary side story.
I bet the governor and his fellow murderers will go out on the town tonight to celebrate.