{"id":267109,"date":"2022-05-02T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=267109"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:14:37","slug":"man-lacing-womans-drink-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/man-lacing-womans-drink-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty of lacing woman’s drink with abortion pill after she refused abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update June 27, 2022<\/strong>: Darren Burke has been found guilty<\/a> of putting the abortion drug mifepristone into his pregnant mistress’s drink. He has been sentenced to 45 months in prison.<\/p>\n

England began allowing DIY at home abortions using the abortion pill in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing the risk of coerced abortion and instances like this in which another person attempts to trick a pregnant woman into taking the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

May 2, 2022<\/strong>: A man in England is currently standing trial after he allegedly placed the abortion drug mifepristone into his mistress’s drink in order to cause a miscarriage.\u00a0Darren Burke is accused of lacing the drink of Laura Slade after she refused to get an abortion. Slade noticed the substance in her drink and did not ingest it.<\/p>\n

According to the Mirror<\/a>, the duo began an affair in 2020 and Slade soon became pregnant. When she told Burke, he encouraged her to have an abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Burke told Ms. Slade that they couldn\u2019t keep the baby because it would affect everyone \u2014 her children, his child, and his wife,” said the prosecutor, Paul Jarvis. “He wrote he was thinking about Ms. Slade, but she rather took the view that he was really thinking of himself.”<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Burke replied that if she went through with the pregnancy he would have to leave his wife and family and that would kill them \u2014 especially his disabled father who was in hospital,\u201d added Jarvis.<\/p>\n

Despite Burke’s insistence, Slade reportedly wanted to keep the child. When she invited Burke to her house to talk, he got her a drink of orange juice from the kitchen, but first, he allegedly laced it with mifepristone, better known as the abortion pill, which blocks the pregnancy hormone progesterone to deprive a preborn child of nutrients. Burke didn’t drink the juice and was suspicious when she saw Burke pouring it down the sink before he left.<\/p>\n