have an abortion.
A pregnant woman and her unborn child are unharmed despite an attempt by
the baby's father to force her at gunpoint to have an abortion. Ohio
police arrested Dominic L. Holt-Reid October 6 after his girlfriend
Yolanda M. Burgess was able to hand a note to a clinic employee saying
she was being coerced, according to WBNS-10TV.
Reid is currently in the Franklin County jail under a $500,000 bond,
WBNS-10TV reported. He faces charges of kidnapping and carrying a
concealed weapon.
Burgess and Holt-Reid are not married but are also the parents of a
four-year-old, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Police allege that
they were in a car together October 6 after dropping their child off at
school when Holt-Reid pulled a handgun and pointed it at Burgess,
threatening that he would shoot her and cause a miscarriage unless she
drove to an abortion clinic, the Dispatch reported.
Burgess had made an appointment for an abortion at Founder's Women's
Health Center in Columbus, scheduled for that morning at 9 a.m. However,
police documents stated that she told Holt-Reid that she changed her
mind and did not want to abort the baby, according to the Dispatch.
After he threatened her with the gun, she drove to the abortion clinic.
Once inside, however, she gave the employee a note and the employee
called the police, WBNS-10TV reported.
Police did not specify the age of the unborn child, but did say that
Burgess was not injured during the incident, according to the Associated
Press.
Contact: Liz Townsend
Source: NRLC
Publish Date: October 11, 2010
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