Paramedic Who Forced Lover to Take Abortion Drugs Gets 10 Years in Prison

A Scottish paramedic was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for sexually assaulting his pregnant lover by secretly injecting her with abortion drugs, killing their unborn baby.

Stephen Doohan, a former clinical team leader with the Scottish Ambulance Service, was convicted of assaulting and sexually assaulting the pregnant woman. He was also placed on the sex offenders register and made subject to a non-harassment order preventing him from contacting the victim indefinitely.

Doohan met the woman while on a vacation in Ibiza. The pair continued to meet around once a month.

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After she informed him of her positive pregnancy test and identified him as the father, they agreed to keep the baby following her visit to Edinburgh, where he had separated from his wife.

In March 2023, while they were intimate, Doohan penetrated the woman’s vagina without her consent and inserted a syringe containing the abortion drug misoprostol, which he had researched using his workplace account. The woman said she “felt something hard” being pushed into her and assumed it was a sex toy.

The next day, a white substance began to come out of her vagina and she experienced stomach cramps.

Two days later, he repeated the assault, placing more of the drug in her vagina in similar circumstances.

When confronted, Doohan initially denied his actions before admitting them. He warned her that he would be arrested if she told anyone, and the pair rehearsed explanations for the miscarriage.

The woman later fell unconscious after taking a shower and experienced heavier bleeding. She was taken to the hospital, where she was told the abortion drug was killing the baby.

Procurator fiscal Fiona Kirkby said Doohan’s “calculated and heinous actions caused the loss of the victim’s pregnancy, robbing her of plans she had for the future.” She added that he has now been held accountable for this “fundamental breach of trust.”

A Health & Care Professions Tribunal Service panel struck Doohan off the medical register, ruling that he “planned an illegal abortion by using unauthorized access to medical information via his workplace.” The panel said he “deliberately and intentionally sexually assaulted” the woman “to abort their unborn child” and “later attempted to persuade her to take the blame for the illegal abortion.”

His actions caused the victim “not only physical harm but also ongoing emotional and psychological harm,” leaving her with the “anguish” of her miscarriage and his “breach of trust.”

The case highlights the vulnerability of unborn children and the risks women face when abusers exploit chemical abortion drugs to kill the baby against the mother’s wishes.

In a separate case illustrating the same pattern of coercion, one woman described feeling “trapped and terrified” after her boyfriend forced her to take abortion pills.

She said: “If there was an in-person doctor’s visit when I was going through my situation, I would have been able to at least have one scapegoat to go to, and tell them, I do not want an abortion. I’m getting coerced into this. I need help. But I did not have that opportunity.”

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