A U.S. Justice Department employee was booked in Parker County jail Friday after he was accused of slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant girlfriend’s drink in what authorities described as an attempt to terminate her pregnancy without her knowledge.
In mid-October, Justin Banta met with the woman — then six weeks pregnant — at a coffee shop in Burleson, where she told him she suspected he had “secretly slipped abortion-inducing pills” into her drink without her knowledge or consent, according to a Parker County sheriff’s office news release and an arrest-warrant affidavit obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
