A 28-year-old woman has filed a police complaint accusing her 29-year-old colleague of sexually exploiting her, physically assaulting her, and forcing her to take abortion drugs against her will.

Key Takeaways:

• A woman in India has accused her coworker boyfriend of forcing her to take abortion drugs against her will.

• She also accused him of physical abuse and sexual exploitation. An investigation is underway.

• This story is far from unique. Several women have accused men of forcing them to take or tricking them into taking abortion inducing drugs after they refused an abortion.

• Forced or coerced abortion could increase as the abortion pill has become easy for abusive individuals to order online.

The Details:

An employee at an IT firm in India alleges that her coworker, who held a position as trainer, initiated a relationship with her in 2025, "persistently" pursuing a relationship and even proposing marriage.

She accepted his proposal and moved in with him in February 2026, however, she claims he was physically abusive while she was living with him and that he extorted her for IN 78,000.

She discovered she was pregnant in July 2026 and said that he then forcibly gave her abortion drugs to kill the baby against her will. She reported him for harassment to the firm's internal complaints committee but the alleged harassment continued.

The Technocity Police Station has registered the case and an investigation is underway.

Why It Matters:

The abortion pill has been used to force women and teen girls into unwanted abortions. Since the Biden administration allowed for the distribution of the abortion pill by mail, online, and through retail pharmacies, such instances could increase.

Studies show that 64% of women who have undergone an abortion felt some form of pressure to do so. That pressure can come from parents, boyfriends, employers, and friends. In some cases, women have been forced to abort or were tricked into taking abortion drugs.

Just a few examples include:

• Jeffery Smith — sentenced to 20 years in prison after he is said to have spiked the water bottle of the woman who was 21 weeks pregnant with his child. The baby did not survive.

• John Welden — sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for slipping an abortion drug to his pregnant fianceé after she refused to have an abortion. The baby did not survive.

• Jin Mimae — arrested after tricking his pregnant girlfriend into taking the abortion pill, mifepristone.

• Manishkumar Patel — sentenced to 22 years in prison for tricking his girlfriend into drinking a beverage laced with mifepristone.

• Darren Burke — sentenced to 45 months in prison after putting crushed up pills into his mistress's orange juice after she refused abortion.

The Bottom Line:

The abortion pill is being used as a tool for abusive men to force women to have unwanted abortions.