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Man Who Spiked Wife’s Drink With Abortion Pill to Kill Their Baby Now Headed to Prison
Life News ^ | October 13, 2025 | Dave Andrusko

Posted on 10/13/2025 11:28:28 PM PDT by Morgana

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 giving birth 10 weeks early. Fortunately, the unborn child survived.

But last week, KTRK, a Houston television station, reported that the disgraced lawyer was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating a civil protection order taken out by his ex-wife in 2022, the same year she divorced him.

According to reporter Luke Jones, Herring twice violated the protective order that said he was “supposed to stay at least 500 feet away from his ex-wife and cease communication with her because of the protection order.

Yet court records show Catherine Herring told police he tried calling her twice on Feb.11.

Mason Herring is also accused of violating the 500-foot perimeter two times during supervised visits with his three children.

As one of the visits at his apartment was wrapping up, on Feb.22, police say he lingered in the lobby until Catherine Herring arrived to pick up the children. Police say he even looked out of the window and told the children she was there.

On March 23, police say he pulled up “nearby” in a vehicle while his ex-wife was dropping the children off

Prosecutors allege Mason Herring knew full well when Catherine Herring would be arriving to drop off the children

There is no record of Catherine responding to the new sentencing. But at the time of the original ultra-light sentence, “I do not believe that 180 days is justice for attempting to kill your child seven separate times,” she said according to Daniela Hurtado and Courtney Fischer of ABC13. “For two years, my husband has overly denied this assault, and I’m grateful today that he has finally admitted to his guilt.”

Mrs. Herring said that as a result of her ex-husband’s multiple attempts

their 1-year-old daughter was born premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week. “Incredibly hard, unspeakably difficult, we just take one day at a time,” she said.

Background

Ms. Herring said, “it started after she found out he was having an affair and asked for a separation,” Choi reported.

That’s when she found out she was pregnant with their third child. She said he wasn’t happy about it and even sent a text message saying that it would ruin his plans and make him look like a “jerk.”

Mrs. Herring said her husband’s first attempt to poison her

was during spring break when he gave her a glass of cloudy water and mentioned the importance of staying hydrated. She didn’t suspect anything at the time, but she became violently ill and had to go to the emergency room.

After that, she said, he continued to bring her drinks that were spiked with what she eventually found out was misoprostol, a drug used to induce abortions.

She said she didn’t consume the drinks, but instead kept them as evidence and turned them over to Houston police. She also provided videos from hidden cameras she installed at her home where he was no longer living.

Subsequently Mrs. Herring “became ill and was taken to urgent care. The baby survived after being born 10 weeks prematurely and weighed just over three pounds,” Hurtado and Fischer reported.

“I watched in real-time as darkness overcame you. As addictions became your priority,” Catherine said to Mason.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionpill; chemicalabortion; forcedabortion; forcedabortions; medicalabortion; mifepristone; misoprostol; prolife

1 posted on 10/13/2025 11:28:28 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
I remember there was a case similar to this on Forensic Files.
2 posted on 10/13/2025 11:29:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Morgana
A Bitter Pill to Swallow -Michelle Baker's poisoning by Dr. Maynard Muntzing (2000)
3 posted on 10/13/2025 11:31:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Morgana

Hes just an amateur abortionist. In some states they’d give him a clinic for his entrepreneurship.


4 posted on 10/14/2025 12:26:20 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

Doesn’t he realize only women are allowed to kill babies. It’s in the constitution.


5 posted on 10/14/2025 1:05:11 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (ui)
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To: for-q-clinton

“Fortunately, the unborn child survived.”
She gave birth 10 weeks early, the child, still unborn, survived?
This author should have stayed working at Starbuck’s.


6 posted on 10/14/2025 3:52:33 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Morgana

if I read correctly, he has visitation with a child he tried to kill?


7 posted on 10/14/2025 4:20:16 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: b4me

if I read correctly, he has visitation with a child he tried to kill?


Exactly what I’m wondering.

This attempted murderer should not be allowed near these or any children, EVER!


8 posted on 10/14/2025 4:35:34 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: for-q-clinton
Once the State declared a mother could legally terminate the life of a child without the consent of the father, the father could also terminate the life of the child without the consent of the mother.

The state can't even argue he was practicing medicine without a license because he has the same argument she has when she claims "my body, my right" despite it being the child's body.

"I didn't give the drug to her; I gave it my child."

From 1729: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"



9 posted on 10/14/2025 4:48:11 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Morgana

I agree he needs to be in prison - but so do all the women who voluntarily abort their babies - along with the “doctors” who do the killing...


10 posted on 10/14/2025 5:13:17 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Morgana

He’s only being jailed because Planned Parenthood didn’t get a shot at the wife first…


11 posted on 10/14/2025 5:33:52 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Morgana

A public school teacher can do that to young girls in some states and be rewarded for it.


12 posted on 10/14/2025 5:37:37 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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To: Morgana
“it started after she found out he was having an affair and asked for a separation,

So while an 8 year sentence for violations of a protection order by violating the 500-foot perimeter two times seems a lot, that an adulterer and murderer only received an 8 year sentence versus execution by communal stoning is what is not biblical.

13 posted on 10/14/2025 6:01:33 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Morgana

It’s a “clump” of cells…. (Sarc)


14 posted on 10/14/2025 6:47:07 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would fhave to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

While I’m glad he’s headed to prison...

Yep...it’s like “Schrodinger’s ‘fetus’”....it’s both human and not human at the same time, depending on who kills it.


15 posted on 10/14/2025 6:59:51 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Morgana

If the shoe were on the other foot, NOTHING happens. If he wants her to have the baby, and she takes the pill and aborts it, NOTHING happens.

Regardless of everything else. THAT’S not right. Equal treatment under the law and all of that.


16 posted on 10/14/2025 8:18:49 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 10/14/2025 8:50:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Morgana

Bad, bad Dad.

18 posted on 10/14/2025 8:52:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Columbus Day! We're back, Italians! We love the Italians, okay?” Trump said. )
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