Adding to the already grim statistics of women being forced by others to abort their babies, a 44 year-old anesthesiologist is under arrest today after choking his newly pregnant girlfriend and forcing her to swallow a morning-after pill.

The Poughkeepsie Journal is reporting that Thomas A. Pfeiffer is being held in an Ulster County, NY jail this morning after trying to strangle a woman after she told him that a home pregnancy test had come out positive. Pfeiffer reacted violently, began to choke the woman, then forced her to consume a pill that would cause an abortion.

The Ulster County Sheriff's office said their deputies responded on Wednesday night to a "no voice" 911 call that came from a home in the town of Rosendale which is 60 miles south of Albany. The woman was taken to nearby Health Alliance Hospital after suffering injuries to her throat and neck.

Unfortunately, this case is not unusual. Studies have found that as many as 65 percent of women who have abortions say they felt forced into the procedure either by family or the child's father, or by the circumstances of their life. Too often this force becomes violent, which is why homicide remains one of the leading causes of death in pregnant women in the U.S.

Although the status of this woman's pregnancy has not been revealed, her assailant has been charged with two felonies - second-degree strangulation and second-degree abortion, as well as third-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal mischief and misdemeanors. He is being held on $50,000 cash bail.

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