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Forced Abortion: Capital Region Man Drugged Pregnant Woman, Causing Miscarriage, Police Say Forced Abortion: Capital Region Man Drugged Pregnant Woman, Causing Miscarriage, Police Say
Forced Abortion: Capital Region Man Drugged Pregnant Woman, Causing Miscarriage, Police Say A 39-year-old man from the region is facing charges after allegedly causing a pregnant woman to suffer a miscarriage. Rensselaer County resident Dia Beshara, of Schaghticoke, was arrested Monday, July 3, after an investigation that spanned more than a year, according to the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office. The woman told deputies that Beshara gave her the drug Mifepristone without her knowledge while she was pregnant. Mifepristone works by blocking a hormone needed for a pregnancy to continue and is used by medical professionals to end pregnancies up to 10 weeks, according to the Food a…

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by Michael Mashburn