If you are drugging someone heavily enough to cause an abortion, without legitimate abortion drugs, you may be facing murder anyway, premeditated murder at that.
I don't have much to add, but we had a case like that in FL - an OB's son got his girlfriend/fling pregnant and slipped her an abortion pill under the guise of an antibiotic (he said his father, who was her doctor, asked him to give it to her *his father did not* and I guess typed the label and put the pills in himself.) Anyway, he ended up getting 14 years in prison.
Link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ng-girlfriend-abortion-pill-article-1.1593401
Certainly better odds than the death penalty and/or life in prison that CL seems to be facing now.
Of course, it would have been better to just man up and face his problems.
I do find it interesting that the suspected motive is that he was scared of losing his wife (and the divorce / child support / alimony he'd have to pay), not to mention losing access to his daughter. It's also been theorized he was afraid of losing benefits, his honorable discharge, etc. But, why risk all of that in the first place? I don't believe that he loved EC. He was moving back to Alaska and allegedly murdered her. So, he had no intention of being with her (the murder is proof of that, IMO) Was it just sex? The affair was going on since at least February, allegedly, so why not end it and move on to some other girl if it was just sex once they were caught? Why stay on the radar with EC, who clearly was in love with him? It just makes no sense. Even if it was the 'thrill', they had already been caught, so it seems to be that would be gone.
You know, I also wonder WHY he would have unprotected sex with her?? I'm assuming they did, since he seemed willing to believe the baby was his (I imagine if there was a broken condom or something, he may have doubts b/c there's still spermicide in condoms, so I would think he would want more proof before deciding to murder her.) She had a MC in January (and MOO!!! but if they were 'caught' in Feb, is it possible they were having an affair prior to that and the MC was his?) So, he knew she could get pregnant, and may have been 'trying' with her husband. I doubt he believed she was on birth control. So, why take a chance? If a pregnancy was 'worth' murdering her over, why not do everything he could to prevent it in the first place??
ETA: I have to believe she had
some intimacy with her husband, since he also, was willing to believe the baby was his. If they hadn't slept together in, for example, 2 months - it would be hard to believe it was his. UNLESS that's where the discrepancy in dates are coming from. Maybe she told CL a different date (the correct one) and told her husband a different due date correlating to the last time that they were intimate.
It's all so, so dumb and so, so sad. And, I am NOT blaming EC, but I do wonder on a similar note if he felt 'tricked' by her being pregnant. Like, maybe, he thought she got pregnant on purpose and once he went down that path of thinking, it led to him feeling like she should pay for trying to ruin his family (though he did that all on his own!)
