Police dispatch call alleges man tried to force daughter to take abortion pill

A police dispatch call from Columbus, Ohio, received a report alleging that a victim's "father held her down" and "tried to force her to take an abortion pill."

Accounts of women being coerced or forced to take abortion drugs have become more public and more widespread, as the drugs have become more easily accessible due to online abortion pill dispensaries and mail-order options.

Key Takeaways:

• On May 28, police in Columbus, Ohio, were notified by dispatch that a father had allegedly attempted to force his daughter to take the abortion pill.

• This type of incident appears to be a growing problem, as the abortion pill has become much more easy to obtain due to mail-order dispensing.

• Despite the fact that abusers can easily obtain the drugs and the fact that federal law makes it illegal to send abortion drugs through the mail, the FDA and federal government appear to be doing little to halt mail-order abortion, despite the risk to women and preborn children.

The Details:

'Abusers use shockingly available' abortion drugs

Last week, Live Action News was contacted by Allie Frazier, a pro-life advocate and native of Columbus, Ohio, about the incident.

Frazier told Live Action News:

"I like to keep up to date on what’s going on in my community. While listening to local reports on an emergency calls app, I was shaken to hear a report that a father had held his daughter down and attempted to force her to take abortion drugs."

The call, which did not specify what drug was used, was placed to the Columbus Police Department on May 28, 2026, around 10:36 a.m.

It is unclear who is speaking or the exact location of the call, which stated:

They have a client in there, says the [audio not legible] father held her down on Saturday and tried to force her to take an abortion pill.

This happened at Livingston or Hamilton, possibly on way home.

The call was brief and confirmed by Live Action News in an archived scanner which hosts Columbus Police Citywide Dispatch radio traffic.

It is not clear whether Livingston and Hamilton is an intersection in Columbus or possibly city locations of Livingston (near downtown Columbus) or Hamilton, which is about an hour and half from Columbus.

Forced abortion claim

Frazier, who reportedly has worked as a volunteer and professional connecting women facing unexpected pregnancies to care in Ohio for nearly a decade, added:

This the reality of abortion drugs. Abusers use these shockingly available drugs to intimidate women and girls and kill their preborn babies. It is chilling to realize that this horrible abuse is occurring in my own community. Your community isn’t safe from abortion drugs, and I was heartbroken to find out that neither was mine.

Frazier also noted:

The Lakeland Planned Parenthood was shut down in March, and the Gainesville will be shutting down in June. Both were abortion referral centers, which referred many, many innocent babies to the Planned Parenthoods in Orlando and Kissimmee.

Thankfully these Planned Parenthoods are shut down, but this month, the time will be up for withholding Medicaid funding from PP. We must demand that these places of death never receive a cent from taxpayers!  We must hold our politicians accountable.

Live Action News reached out to the Columbus Police Department, but received no response prior to the time of print.

Is FDA's removal of in-person dispensing to blame?

Coercion is becoming a growing concern of mail-order abortion dispensing, as predators hide behind computer screens and clandestinely slip the mailed drug into the beverage of their intended pregnant victim, or force them upon victims some other way. 

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Matzke shares the tragic story of a 19-year-old girl forced by her parents to take an abortion pill, saying the girl delivered her dead baby alone on the floor of her bathroom. "There was no support. There was no doctor there. There was no nurse there...this is not healthcare."

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This is due in part to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) erosion of the REMS safety regulations on the drug mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex, which removed in-person dispensing. In-person dispensing meant that a clinician could confirm the drugs would be handed to pregnant women rather than sex traffickers or other abusers, including parents who might coerce a young woman into taking the drugs.

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"A young girl, 16 years old... was going to have a gender reveal party, and instead her mother forced her to take this pill." Doctor and U.S. @SenBillCassidy explains the medical dangers and coercion created by the abortion pill Mifepristone.

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Catherine Herring learned she was pregnant with her third child one week after her husband asked for a separation. According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF):

In March 2022, Catherine Herring’s husband brought her breakfast in bed and a cup of water. When he pressured her to chug her drink, she noticed something wasn’t right. The cup of water in her hand—that she had already consumed—was murky. It wasn’t just water. It was a vessel for chemical abortion drugs. Her now ex-husband had poisoned her drink in an attempt to kill their baby.

The effects from the drugs were severe and sent Catherine to the emergency room. This was the first of seven total poisoning attempts. Miraculously, Catherine’s baby girl survived.

Catherine’s husband Mason Herring accepted a plea deal in 2024. As Live Action News reported, he admitted to spiking his wife's drink with an abortion drug. He was sentenced to just six months in prison with 10 years probation on charges of injury to a child under 15, bodily injury, and assault of a pregnant person. But after violating his probation, he was sentenced last October to eight years in prison. 

The changes to the REMS have triggered lawsuits from multiple states; one included coercion victim and Louisiana resident Rosalie Markezich as a plaintiff.

Markezich claimed that "mail-order abortion" led to a situation in which her then-boyfriend coerced her into taking abortion drugs that ended her preborn child's life. He allegedly obtained the abortion pill regimen by mail in 2023 from a doctor in California.

Markezich also claimed that if an in-person visit had been required for a woman to get the abortion pill at the time, she would have been able to inform the doctor that she was being coerced, and her baby would likely be alive today.

“If mail-order abortion wasn’t a thing, I’m 100% sure I would have my child,” Markezich said.

"I felt pressured to take the pills" | Rosalie's Story

Additional cases have been documented by Live Action News. In Live Action's chemical abortion pill report, cases from recent years have been documented in which men administered easily-obtained abortion drugs to women without the women's knowledge or consent (forced abortions); in addition, some women are alleging that even abortion facility workers are pressuring them.

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BREAKING: Texas man allegedly killed his unborn daughter, Presley Mae, by secretly crushing abortion pills into his girlfriend's drink after she refused to abort. She was 14 weeks pregnant. Abortion pills are used as a tool of coercion and abuse against women and children. Ban Show more

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University of Toledo Medical Center doctor Hassan-James Abbas was indicted in December by a Lucas County Grand Jury on multiple felony charges after he forcibly gave his victim abortion pills when she refused to abort his child. The victim Abbas’s patient, with whom he had a sexual relationship.

In a stunning interview, the victim told WTOL News11:

"I just told him that I took a test. I sent him a picture of it, you know, I was happy to talk to him about it and have a conversation. He called me on the phone and was screaming at me, just erratic behavior that I have never seen before. I laid there and I went back and forth on if he was gonna kill me, you know. That was my biggest thought was that he was going to kill me."

Abbas has since pleaded no contest to the allegations.

In another case, according to an affidavit filed in Tarrant County by the Texas Rangers and obtained by the Texas Tribune, "39-year-old Justin Anthony Banta put mifepristone, an abortion-inducing medication, into cookies and a beverage that he then gave to his pregnant girlfriend. Banta had previously asked her to get an abortion, but she said she had wanted to keep the child, according to the affidavit. A day after drinking the beverage, the woman miscarried."

Estimated Abortion Pill Abortions

At least 732,000 abortions by pill took place in 2025, which equates to approximately 60,992 per month; 2,005 per day; 84 per hour; and one every 44 seconds.

A report on "reproductive coercion" published by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) claimed that, "In early 2025, abortion by way of mail-order abortion drugs made up an estimated 27% of all abortions performed nationwide."

The CLI report gave some startling statistics:

A non-peer-reviewed BBC poll of a nationally representative sample of 1,060 women in the United Kingdom found higher numbers, with 15% having experienced pressure to have an abortion when they did not want to and 8% having experienced pressure to continue a pregnancy when they did not want to.

In the BBC poll, 5% of respondents had suffered violence that was intended to end a pregnancy, and 3% were given pills to force an abortion without their knowledge/consent.

Why It Matters:

According to the FDA's REMS, mifepristone must be provided by or under the supervision of a certified prescriber who meets the following qualifications:

• Ability to assess the duration of pregnancy accurately. 

• Ability to diagnose ectopic pregnancies. 

• Ability to provide surgical intervention in cases of incomplete abortion or severe bleeding, or have made plans to provide such care through others, and be able to assure patient access to medical facilities equipped to provide blood transfusions and resuscitation, if necessary. 

• Has read and understood the Prescribing Information for mifepristone.

Prescribers of the drug who do not adhere to the strict requirements must be decertified by the drug's makers, but as Live Action News previously documented, this is not happening.

Attorney Mike Seibel recently wrote:

The manufacturers (sponsors) are responsible for certifying these providers and pharmacies, monitoring compliance, and de-certifying those who fail to maintain it. They control distribution and are supposed to ensure the drug reaches only compliant parties...

If manufacturers are certifying (or continuing to supply) providers and pharmacies that ignore these obligations—failing to verify gestational age properly, allowing misleading safety claims, or skipping required counseling and documentation—then they are not fulfilling their REMS duties. The sponsors’ own agreements state they will de-certify non-compliant parties and stop distribution to them.

Mailing abortion drugs is federally illegal

The Comstock Act is a federal law that prohibits the mailing of “any article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing [that] may, or can be used or applied for producing abortion” through the mail. Yet, when the FDA allowed the mailing of the abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic, this law was violated and continues to be ignored.

• 2000: Abortion pill (Mifeprex or mifepristone 200 mg) approved by the FDA for the “termination of pregnancy” in a regimen with a second drug called Misoprostol.

• 2011: Concern about the drug's safety placed mifepristone/mifeprex under the REMS.

• 2016: Safety measures eroded when FDA allowed the drug to be prescribed through ten weeks of pregnancy and removed requirements that the manufacturer report all adverse events.

• 2023: FDA removed the in-person dispensing requirement, allowing for the drug to be dispensed by mail or pharmacy.

These changes occurred despite the fact that the federal Comstock Act prohibits the mailing of abortion inducing drugs.