Man tried to shoot 18-year-old girl because she refused abortion, police say

by Ben Johnson

DAYTON, OH, September 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An 18-year-old Ohio woman says her ex-boyfriend tried to murder her, because she refused to abort their child.

Tanner Hopkins, 23

Dayton police say that 23-year-old Tanner Hopkins pulled up next to the woman's car on Sunday night and fired two shots into the door before peeling out.

Luckily, the bullets lodged in her car door and did not strike the woman, who called police to the scene just before midnight.

The woman, whose name has not been released, told the officers she was pregnant with Hopkins' child, and he shot at her after she resisted his pressure to have an abortion.

Officers found Hopkins at his mother's home, in the bedroom with another young woman.

The suspected weapon, a Raven Arms P25, was in his shorts on the bedroom floor, they say.

Officers transported Hopkins to the Montgomery County Jail, where they booked him on felonious assault and weapons charges on Monday.

WHIO-TV reports that he had a prior felonious assault conviction in 2009. A YouTube channel under his name uploaded several videos of fights in Dayton, as well as a video advertising his 23rd birthday BBQ on June 21. Several of his friends invite viewers to enjoy, “Big bags, big bottles, [and] big booty b----es.”

This week's alleged murder attempt is the latest in a series of violent attacks by men who want their unborn children out of their lives, one way or another.

Last week, police charged James Lynch with assault of an unborn child after he allegedly threatened to “cut the baby out” of his ex-girlfriend's stomach and dragged her down the stairs of her Pennsylvania home.

Police accused 21-year-old Carlton “CJ” Bryan of hiring a hitman to shoot his pregnant girlfriend in her car in April, after she would not go to an abortion facility.

In 2011, a 28-year-old Ohio man admitted trying to force his girlfriend to have an abortion at gunpoint.

Mothers who refuse to dispose of their children do not always escape with their lives.

In July, the parents of 17-year-old Hawa Gabbidon said her boyfriend murdered her after an argument over abortion.

In May, police said Christian Ferdinand, a young man who moved to Brooklyn from Jamaica, confessed to murdering 14 year-old Shaniesha Forbes, keeping her body in a suitcase, and trying to set her remains on fire because she would not have an abortion. Forbes was not actually pregnant.

The Eliot Institute reports that 64 percent of all U.S. abortions result from coercion from boyfriends, parents, or other sources.