Posted on November 30, 2025
The Joy Of Killing
Melania, mifepristone and men
by
Daniel Clark
As Mel
Brooks explains it, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer
and die." This is the world according to
First Lady Melania Trump.
In the
book she published shortly before last year's election, and therefore with the
tacit approval of her husband's campaign, Mrs. Trump championed the cause of
abortion. "I have always believed it is
critical for people to take care of themselves first," she wrote, trumpily. "It's a
very straightforward concept; in fact, we are all born with a set of
fundamental rights, including the right to enjoy our lives." The existence of the other person doesn't
even factor into this argument.
Elevating selfishness to a virtue, she deems it "critical" to look out
for number one. Therefore, it's not
wrong to violate another person's rights, because that other person isn't her.
She's not talking here about only
that minuscule percentage of cases in which an abortion is done to save the
mother's life (which predominantly happens as a result of an ectopic pregnancy,
a circumstance the baby could not have survived anyway). "The right to enjoy our lives" means that any
interest on the part of the mother, including the desire to maintain a
hedonistic lifestyle, overrides the right to life of the unborn child. Well, guess what? Men like to enjoy their lives, too.
Ohio
doctor Hassan-James Abbas recently had his license suspended on the basis that
he surreptitiously obtained abortion drugs and force-fed them to his pregnant
girlfriend. Because in-person visits are
no longer required for the distribution of mifepristone and misoprostol, Dr.
Abbas purchased these pills from out of state through telemedicine, using his
estranged wife's name and driver's license number. He crushed the pills into a powder, and then
attacked the mother of his unborn child as she slept, pinning her to the bed by
her neck and forcing the powder into her mouth.
Well, why
not? He had tried doing it the easy way
by telling her to have an abortion, but she refused. Abbas had determined that becoming a father
would have interfered with his ability to enjoy his life, so he took care of
himself first. The two people in this
scenario who were not himself simply didn't matter.
This case
has made headlines because of its violent nature, but since Joe Biden's FDA
liberalized the distribution of mifepristone and misoprostol in January 2023,
there have been at least four other men charged with crimes for deceptively
slipping these abortion drugs into pregnant women's food or drink, or
disguising them as other kinds of pills.
The typical m.o. is that the man tries to persuade or coerce the woman
into having an abortion, and when she refuses, he decides not to take no for an
answer.
Although the easy availability of
abortion pills has enabled this behavior, men have always found ways of forcing
the miscarriages of their unwanted children, like contriving household
accidents, or repeatedly punching or kicking the mother in the abdomen. Assaults and even murders of women by the
fathers of their unborn children are not rare; it's just that they are rarely
mentioned by feminists who say they're concerned about violence against women. Because abortion is more important to them
than the well-being of women, they refuse to recognize that it is often the man
who wants the abortion, and not the woman, contrary to their hollow rhetoric
about "a woman's right to choose."
For an
example of this, we needn't look any farther than the omnipresent Donald
Trump. In a 2004 interview on The
Howard Stern Show, the future president told Stern about his reaction to
his second wife-to-be, Marla Maples, telling him she was pregnant. "I said, 'Well, what are we going to do about
this?' She said, 'Are you serious? It's the most beautiful day of our
lives.' I said, 'Oh, great.'" In fairness, he did preface this by saying, "I'm
glad it happened. I have a great little
daughter, Tiffany," but how must the ten-year-old girl have felt about her
father broadcasting to a national radio audience that he hadn't wanted her?
During
that same interview, Stern questioned Trump in graphic detail about how he was
ensuring that Melania, who was soon to become his fiancee,
would not get pregnant out of wedlock also.
After Trump assured him that she would not, Stern asked, "Would you push
her down the stairs if it happened?" Get
it? Somebody ought to ask the first lady
if she found that funny.
Considering
the popularity of the show, and the many controversies Stern has generated on
other occasions, the lack of outrage over this remark is telling. Trump himself was unfazed, continuing the
conversation as if he hadn't even heard it.
Among their listeners, a joking suggestion of domestic violence for the
purpose of killing an unwanted baby must have been just a bit of lighthearted
fun.
Mrs.
Trump's argument amounts to a simple assertion that might makes right. She doesn't even bother denying the humanity
of the baby in the womb, because she doesn't consider it to be relevant. Her advocacy of abortion is based simply on
the woman having both the power and the desire to do it. That doesn't leave much of a logical case to
be made against a man who exercises his might in a similar manner. Maybe that's why feminists are unconcerned
that men are exploiting the almost completely unregulated distribution of
dangerous abortion pills, and why they feign ignorance of the fact that
abortion is as likely to be the choice of the man as the woman. Writing off some pregnant women as collateral
damage is a small price to pay so that others may enjoy themselves.
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