Medical Abortion on Law & Order: SVU

If you watch any of the Law & Order shows on a regular basis you have seen the disclaimer that says the characters and plots are works of fiction, but often the episodes do treat controversial legal, social or medical issues that are themselves based in fact. In a recent Law & Order: SVU episode entitled "Gray," Benson and Stabler investigate a college student accused of "gray rape" after he has sex with a drunk co-ed. In the course of the investigation the detectives of the Special Victims Unit discover the same student had also been accused of causing a miscarriage in his pregnant girlfriend against her will. The story is that he was a pre-med student and knew he could induce an abortion without her knowing, by using a homemade lubricant that contained the ulcer medication misoprostol.

So were the writers of this SVU episode using a good bit of creative license, or could a man actually cause his partner to miscarry without her knowing it?

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