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Delegate Congolo urges felony penalty for coercing pregnant people to ingest abortion drugs
Summary
House Bill 885 would make it a felony to cause a pregnant person to ingest an abortion‑inducing drug through fraud, coercion or force, with sponsors citing a gap in Maryland law and witnesses describing harms from nonconsensual dosing.
Delegate Latoya Congolo asked the House Judiciary Committee for a favorable report on House Bill 885, the Women’s Freedom from Coercion Act, saying the measure closes a gap in Maryland law that now treats many cases of nonconsensual ingestion as misdemeanors. “Currently, if someone has slipped an abortion inducing drug to a pregnant person through deceit ... the offender often faces only misdemeanor charges with minimal…
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