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Lauren Aratani

Texas man faces charges for allegedly slipping abortion drug in wife’s drink

A combination pack of mifepristone (L) and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together, also called the abortion pill.
A combination pack of mifepristone, L, and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together, also called the abortion pill. Photograph: Elisa Wells/Plan C/AFP/Getty Images

A Texas man faces criminal charges for allegedly trying to end his wife’s pregnancy without her knowledge by slipping medication used to induce an abortion into her drinks.

Earlier this month, a grand jury indicted the man, a 38-year-old attorney from Houston named Mason Herring, on two felony counts, including assaulting a pregnant person. The second charge Herring faces is “assault – forced induced to have an abortion”, according to court records.

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