{"id":307593,"date":"2024-02-27T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=307593"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:21:51","slug":"pregnant-murdered-wouldnt-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-murdered-wouldnt-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant woman murdered by lover because she wouldn&#8217;t have an abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A British man is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/married-man-killed-woman-woodland-28669747?_ga=2.38825635.1241153303.1708632319-195380182.1708632317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on trial<\/a> after authorities say he stabbed and killed his pregnant girlfriend because she wouldn&#8217;t have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Filmon Andmichaen, 31, is said to have brutally murdered 26-year-old Liwam Bereket, who was six-months pregnant with their child. Andmichaen and Bereket were in a relationship, although Andmichaen was married to another woman. Doctors attempted an emergency c-section to save the baby after Bereket&#8217;s body was found, but the child was stillborn.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, prosecutor Sandip Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-68355175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Andmichaen had wanted an abortion so that his wife and children wouldn&#8217;t discover his affair. Patel called the murder &#8220;[a]n act that ended the life of an innocent woman and an unborn child she nourished within her. The facts are as simple as they are gruesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-lQOooYAs8?si=P8_BSCLxnfAbbJMl\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/married-man-fatally-stabbed-pregnant-girlfriend-in-woodland-court-hears\/ar-BB1iAym0?cvid=048f05245a3a42e7a400a8a5570a9708&amp;ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;ei=20&amp;sc=shoreline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px;\"><em>[Andmichaen] made a chilling decision. He decided that the life growing inside his girlfriend, a new, innocent life they created together, was a complication he was unwilling to accept. So he decided the simple solution to this problem was a permanent one. One of murder. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px;\"><em>On the evening of August 1 last year the defendant took Liwam, his girlfriend, to a secluded spot they frequented. They went there to be alone and there he ended her life, and that of his unborn child, having cut her throat with a knife which he had brought with him. He left her grievously injured and alone. She was 26 and six months pregnant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Homicide is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/company\/newsroom\/homicide-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-in-the-us\/#:~:text=Women%20in%20the%20US%20are,experts%20in%20The%20BMJ%20today.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leading cause<\/a> of death of pregnant women in the United States \u2014 though, as this story suggests, this threat is a global one. Like Bereket, many of these pregnant homicide victims die as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/company\/newsroom\/homicide-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-in-the-us\/#:~:text=Women%20in%20the%20US%20are,experts%20in%20The%20BMJ%20today.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domestic violence situations<\/a>. Recently there appears to have been an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/man-double-homicide-girlfriend-refused-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uptick<\/a> in the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pennsylvania-man-murdered-girlfriend-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news stories<\/a> involving pregnant women who are killed because they have refused abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Editor\u2019s Note: If you are a victim of domestic violence, please visit <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/thehotline.org\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>thehotline.org<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> or call 1-800-799-SAFE.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/ARQQhk1\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British man is on trial after authorities say he stabbed and killed his pregnant girlfriend because she wouldn&#8217;t have an abortion. Filmon Andmichaen, 31, is said to have brutally murdered 26-year-old Liwam Bereket, who was six-months pregnant with their child. Andmichaen and Bereket were in a relationship, although Andmichaen was married to another woman. 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