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OPINION: She wanted the baby, he didn’t. The reality of campus abortion pills is abuse, not ‘choice.’
A tragic story involving two West Point cadets and their child should be a warning against the on-going efforts to expand abortions to college campuses.
An unborn child is dead, a young mother is grieving and traumatized, and a young father is facing jail time because too few people consider the full impact of easy abortion access and the so-called “right to choose.”
As the New York Post reported this week, former West Point cadet Caleb Suh recently pleaded guilty to felony assault after his former girlfriend accused him of forcing her to abort their unborn baby with abortion pills.
“For years, Ms. Doe has been forced to grapple with her experience. Ms. Doe’s life has been irreparably changed, and she has lost a baby that she intended to keep,” the unnamed young woman’s lawsuit alleges.
The incident happened in 2022 while both Suh and his unnamed girlfriend were cadets at West Point Military Academy, according to the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit.
When the young woman found out that she was pregnant, she and Suh argued: She wanted to keep the baby, he wanted an abortion, the case alleges.
Suh “even threatened to commit suicide if she did not terminate the pregnancy,” according to the report:
Suh then began feigning support for her and the baby — even as he obtained the abortion pills by stealing her identity and opening a fake account with an online pharmacy, ordering the drugs in her name and having them shipped to West Point, according to his plea and the suit.
“I also obtained Xanax through a friend,” Suh admitted in his guilty plea. “My intent was [to] use the Xanax to unwittingly sedate my girlfriend so that I could then administer the abortion pills, which I had obtained via the online pharmacy.”
He even asked questions on the pharmacy’s online forum, including “[W]ill I feel the pills in my vaginia?”
Suh eventually gave the pregnant young woman what he called a “special pregnancy protein powder” laced with the sedatives, the suit said. It’s unclear how far along she was in the pregnancy at the time.
Despite the woman’s revulsion at the taste of the drink, Suh insisted she finish it, “holding the bottle against her lips and forcing her to drink it,” according to court papers.
Suh also allegedly put abortion pills in her mouth and her vagina. After falling asleep, the young woman woke up to find that she was “profusely bleeding from her vagina,” the lawsuit alleges.
Doctors later confirmed that she miscarried the baby, according to the report.
Suh pleaded guilty to felony assault in June, and his sentencing hearing is scheduled for January. He could face up to two years in prison, the NY Post reports.
Up until now, Suh is – or was – a graduate student at Columbia University. An unnamed university spokesperson told the NY Post that “after learning of Suh’s past, the school ‘took swift action’ — but did not specify what that meant.”
Interestingly, Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College, has a garden where plants historically used to induce abortions are grown. In 2025, the college library held an information session on “self-managed abortion” in connection with the garden.
More and more Democratic states are now requiring public college campuses to provide abortion pills as well. California was the first, later joined by Illinois, Massachusetts, Colorado, and New York.
Meanwhile, College Fix analyses have found that very few campuses in these same states offer prenatal care to students who want to parent their babies.
Putting pressure on young women, particularly college students, to abort their unborn babies happens more often than people realize, but few outside of the pro-life movement pay attention.
LifeNews reported this week: “According to a tracking site compiled by Pregnancy Help News, there have been at least 23 documented cases of expectant mothers being poisoned by abortion pills without their knowledge or consent [since 2007]. Suh’s crime would be the 24th case.”
It’s likely that there are far more that never reach the public eye.
Yet, abortion activists (some of them professors) continue to pushing abortion on students, with little thought to young women’s health or safety. There’s little consideration of how easily abusers can get their hands on these drugs (or plants). And there’s no consideration at all for the life of the child in the womb.
The West Point story should be a wakeup call.
MORE: New York college ‘reproductive justice garden’ features plants promoted as ‘abortifacients’
