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A Wisconsin man is facing 99-and-a-half-years in prison after police say he poisoned his girlfriend's unborn child with the abortion drug RU-486 not once, but twice.Darshana Patel pretended she was ill and refused to drink a fruit smoothie her boyfriend offered her after she noticed a suspicious powder on the rim. A lab test identified that powder as the abortion drug RU-486. But the results came too late. Darshana's unborn child died, and police have charged her boyfriend, Manishkumar Patel, with attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child-along with eight other crimes.Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America says access to RU-486 is supposed to be severely restricted in the U.S. "It can't just be handed out, even in a pharmacy. You can only get it and only take it in a doctor's office or clinic," Wright said. "And so the fact that a man was not only able to obtain it, but then also give it to a woman away from a doctor's clinic or office, without any medical exam, is even worse than we had imagined would happen."Investigators believe Manishkumar Patel-no relation to the victim-may have illegally given her the abortion drug on at least one previous occasion, resulting in another miscarriage. Patel admitted to police that he obtained the drug from India, and that he gave it to his girlfriend without her knowledge. However, a court-appointed attorney for Patel said he would plead not guilty to all of the charges.Wright says the case highlights the dangers of making such drugs available to the public. "What this really shows is [that] it takes extraordinary effort in order to find out if the drug has been slipped to a woman. It also would indicate that this may have happened at other times," she points out. Concerned Woman for America has challenged the FDA's approval of RU-486 because of the dangers of the drug and its potential for abuse.According to FoxNews.com, Patel is an Indian immigrant who is married, but has been having a long-term affair with Darshana. The two have a child three years of age. He is currently being held on $750,000 bail, and when police searched his home they found a plane ticket for Germany. His current place of residence, Wisconsin, is one of 37 states with a "fetal homicide" law that protects unborn children from intentional injury or murder.As in the days of Noah...
