To many people around the world, abortion is just another term for murder, as it involves the unjustifiable taking of the innocent life of an unborn baby.

In a bombshell development this week, the former first lady of Argentina, Fabiola Yanez, essentially accused former Argentine President Alberto Fernandez of murder by asserting that he once forced her to get an abortion, the Daily Mail reported.

That allegation was just one of several claims of physical and psychological abuse that Yanez lodged against Fernandez during an hours-long interview she had with federal prosecutors on Tuesday.

Forced to have an abortion

The actress and journalist Yanez, 43, revealed to prosecutors that she became pregnant shortly before her 2016 engagement to marry Fernandez, 65, a leftist politician who was elected to serve as Argentina's president from 2019 through 2023.

"While living together and in accordance with the plans of engagement, trusting in his words regarding wanting to have another child with me, and start a family, it turned out that shortly after living together I became pregnant," Yanez explained. 'The joy and surprise was immense on my part until I told him."

He reacted to the news with "contempt and rejection," she testified and said, "This time regarding our unborn child, he told me, 'This can't happen, I'm in shock.'"

Fernandez then "started harassing me saying that it was too soon, that he wasn't ready yet, that he hadn't introduced me to his son" from a previous marriage, Yanez continued, and then "began the second part of his plan of contempt, to push me into carrying out the worst decision. He began to ignore me completely" and treated her like "a piece of furniture in my own home, carrying his child in my womb."

"He told me, 'I can't tell anyone that I'm going to have a child with you in such a short time,' and I told him, 'But then why didn't you tell me? We would have been careful,'" she added. "He told me, 'We have to resolve it, you have to abort,'" which she ultimately did under pressure and against her will.

Physically and psychologically abusive

According to the Buenos Aires Times, former first lady Yanez, who currently resides in the Argentine Consulate in Madrid, Spain, spoke with lead federal prosecutor Ramon Gonzalez for four hours on Tuesday via a Zoom call to testify about the allegations of domestic abuse she has lodged against the former president.

In addition to the "consistent and habitual" physical and psychological abuse that she claims began in 2016, she also exposed Fernandez for allegedly being a frequent consumer of alcohol and marijuana despite portraying himself publicly as a "teetotaler."

Yanez also asserted that as Fernandez's popularity and political fortunes declined over the years, his violence toward her became "increasingly worse" and made her life with him a "living hell."

Charged with domestic violence-related crimes

According to the Associated Press, just one day after Yanez testified to prosecutors about the alleged abuse, domestic violence-related criminal charges for "minor and serious injuries, doubly aggravated" and "coercive threats" were filed against Fernandez on Wednesday.

Interestingly enough, all of this stems from a separate ongoing investigation of Fernandez for alleged embezzlement, in which thousands of text messages obtained by the probe were leaked to the media, including messages that revealed Yanez's complaints about the abuse and even pictures of the bruises and other injuries he allegedly gave to her.

Fernandez, a former law professor, is essentially under house arrest in an apartment in Buenos Aires and is prohibited from leaving the country while the embezzlement investigation continues. He has previously denied those allegations as well as the allegations of abuse from Yanez, but doesn't appear to have publicly commented yet about the recent criminal charges against him.