Man Who Spiked Wife’s Drink With Abortion Pill to Kill Their Baby Now Headed to Prison

In February 2024, we reported that Mason Herring, a Houston attorney, had pleaded guilty to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant woman. As part of a plea bargain, Herring was sentenced to a slap on wrist–180 days in jail and 10 years of probation–for secretly drugging his wife’s drinks multiple times to induce an abortion while she was pregnant with their third child.Herring admitted spiking water with the abortion drug misoprostol, which Catherine Herring told the court resulted in her g