Swedish Man Drugs Pregnant Girlfriend In Attempt To Induce
Miscarriage  Three months after a Wisconsin man reportedly laced
his pregnant girlfriend's food with the abortificient RU-486,
comes news that a 27-year-old Swedish man has been sentenced to
18 months in prison for doing the exact same thing. The unnamed
Swede reportedly attempted to make his girlfriend of eight years
miscarry by grinding up abortion-inducing pills and mixing them
into her yogurt. "The woman ate the yoghurt and suffered severe
stomach pains and vaginal bleeding," reports CBS News (via AP).
"When she later realized what she had eaten, she decided to have
an abortion, fearing that the fetus had been permanently damaged
by the pills." Although the story serves to underscore the
reality that pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to
domestic violence — expectant mothers are more likely to be
victims of murder than to die of any other cause — it also
raises an important issue: does the prosecution of men who
attempt to induce miscarria