A 275-pound University of Houston defensive lineman was arrested last week for allegedly slamming his pregnant girlfriend to the ground after she refused to take an abortion pill — the kind of violent personal crisis the pro-abortion lobby won't acknowledge.
Nineteen-year-old Carmello Brooks squeezed Nariah Harley's arms, picked her up, slammed her to the ground, and sat on her to pin her down, a hearing officer testified Monday, according to KPRC. The confrontation started when Harley told Brooks she wouldn't take the abortion pill.
Harley has since asked that the charges be dropped. She told KTRK that she and Brooks "had got into argument at his apartment" and that he "told me to get out multiple times, and I would not get out." She claimed Brooks "picked me up and gently put me out the apartment" and said he called 911 because she refused to leave. The New York Post reported that Harley said she would suffer "forever guilt" if the case ended Brooks' football career.
Brooks' attorney, Brent Wasserstein, told KPRC: "We know there are important facts that need to be carefully considered and we fully expect those facts to clearly prove Carmello's complete innocence as the investigation progresses."
This isn't an isolated incident. Brooks faces a separate misdemeanor charge from August involving a different pregnant woman. According to KPRC, Brooks went to that woman's home after learning she was pregnant, became "verbally aggressive," and tried to leave with her keys. When she pushed the door shut, the door handle partially detached. Police said the damage was "consistent with the door handle having been forcefully pulled inward." The Mechanicsburg Patriot News noted that the criminal mischief charge can carry up to a year in jail.
The University of Houston has suspended Brooks from the team. A spokesperson told KPRC the school "take[s] all allegations of this nature very seriously and are gathering more information." Brooks was a three-star prospect and the No. 100 defensive lineman nationally coming out of high school, according to his university bio.
The abortion lobby spent years fighting to make chemical abortion available by mail, no questions asked. What they don't account for: what happens when the "choice" isn't the woman's to make, and a man decides she's taking that pill whether she wants to or not. Two pregnant women. Two violent confrontations. One player. And still nothing from the people who insisted easier access to these pills was about empowering women.
