MAN WHO TOOK HIS GIRLFRIEND TO THE CHOP SHOP AT GUNPOINT GETS 13 YEARS!

An Ohio man who took his girlfriend at gunpoint to a medical clinic and tried to force her to have an abortion was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday.

Dominic Holt-Reid pleaded guilty in April to attempted murder, abduction and illegally possessing a gun.

The Columbus resident reportedly became enraged in April 2010 after his then-girlfriend Yolanda Burgess refused to go through with an abortion.

After dropping their 5-year-old son off at school, he pulled a gun out and forced her to drive to the clinic.

The clinic staff called police after Burgess passed them a note saying she had been threatened and didn't want to go through with the procedure, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

He was arrested in the clinic parking lot with a .45 handgun.

The case sparked debate over what is considered murder or attempted murder concerning an unborn child.

Anti-abortion groups slammed the charge as showing "the schizophrenic nature" of abortion law in America while prosecutors argued the law had been changed to get around the ethical debate of when a life begins.

"The (state) murder statute was amended a few years back to prohibit 'unlawful termination of a pregnancy' in order to avoid the debate whether an unborn fetus is a 'person' under the law," the prosecutor wrote.

"I have tried homicides where the murder victim was pregnant, and we were able to charge and convict for two counts, but this case is the first under these kinds of facts."

Holt-Reid's lawyers tried to frame the charges as a simple case of domestic violence, which would have netted him a shorter prison term, but judges rejected that argument.

Burgess has since delivered a healthy baby.



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