Jones-Adams pleaded guilty to intentionally killing an unborn child, domestic violence, fraternization, and conduct unbecoming an officer. Court records show he began a relationship with a junior enlisted soldier under his command in November 2024, and she became pregnant with his child in May 2025 while the unit was rotating through South Korea.
On the morning of August 21, 2025, at his home in Puyallup, Washington, Jones-Adams poured the young woman a drink. She noticed a residue in the cup after finishing it and grew suspicious. Jones-Adams had purchased mifepristone, the abortion drug, from an online seller using a false name. The soldier miscarried during her thirteenth week of pregnancy. The 12-year sentence was the maximum allowed under his plea agreement, and the military judge also ordered a full forfeiture of his pay and allowances.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, called the case proof that "no part of society is immune to the mail-order abortion drug scourge." Her organization has joined more than eighty state and national groups in a letter urging Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice to resolve a pending lawsuit, Louisiana v. FDA, through a court-ordered consent decree that would halt nationwide mail-order distribution of abortion drugs while the FDA conducts a renewed safety review.
A Sin Committed in the Dark
Here is a man who wore his country's uniform, who held rank and command over the very soldier he wronged, and who thought a false name on a website order would keep his sin hidden. It did not. It never does. He poured poison into a cup in a quiet kitchen in Puyallup, Washington, thinking no one was watching. Somebody was.
My friend, that is the story of sin in every generation. It is done in secret, dressed up with excuses, purchased under a false name, swallowed in private. And it always, always comes to light. Scripture warned us plainly a long time before online pharmacies existed:
"But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out." (Numbers 32:23)
The court in this case found him out, and the law dealt with him according to what he did. That is right and proper. Government does not carry the sword for nothing; it is a minister of God to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. But there is a truth this case puts before every one of us that no courtroom can settle, and it is this: the child in that young woman's womb, thirteen weeks along, was already known.
Not known to the Army. Not known to the doctors who never got the chance to see him or her. Known to God.
"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb." (Psalm 139:13)
That verse was not written about a wanted child or a convenient one. It was written about every child, in every womb, in every circumstance — the ones welcomed with joy and the ones hidden in fear, the ones planned for and the ones poured into a cup of poison by the very man who should have protected them. God does not wait for a birth certificate to call a life a life. He is knitting in the secret place long before anyone else knows a soul is there.
A young soldier carries a grief now that no sentence, however long, can undo. That is the honest weight of this story, and it deserves to be said plainly rather than rushed past. But grief is not the last word for anyone who brings it to the foot of the cross. The same God who formed that child in the womb is the God who bore every sin — the ones done in daylight and the ones done in secret — in the body of His own Son.
There is no false name that hides a man from God, and there is no sin so buried that the blood of Christ cannot reach it. That is not a soft word. It is the only word strong enough for a story this hard.