Ohio surgeon allegedly forced abortion pills into sleeping girlfriend's mouth after learning of pregnancy

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An Ohio surgeon has been indicted for allegedly crushing termination pills and placing them successful his large girlfriend's rima arsenic she slept, resulting successful the suspension of his aesculapian licence up of a hearing. 

Hassan-James Abbas, a 32-year-old surgical nonmigratory astatine the University of Toledo, allegedly administered the drugs successful secret.

On Dec. 3, a Lucas County expansive assemblage indicted him connected six felony charges, including abduction, tampering with evidence, unlawful organisation of an abortion-inducing drug, disrupting nationalist services, individuality fraud and deception to get a unsafe drug, according to tribunal documents.

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Dr. Hassan Abbas portrait

Hassan-James Abbas, a 32-year-old surgical nonmigratory astatine the University of Toledo, allegedly forced termination pills down the rima of his large girlfriend.  (University of Toledo; Google Maps)

Hassan began a romanticist narration with the unnamed pistillate successful 2024 aft helium separated from his wife, a announcement of accidental for proceeding and summary suspension provided to Fox News Digital states.

On Dec. 7, 2024, erstwhile the pistillate — referred to arsenic "Patient 1" — told Abbas she was pregnant, helium told her helium wanted her to get an abortion.

When the pistillate said she did not privation one, Abbas allegedly ordered the termination drugs mifepristone and misoprostol utilizing his estranged wife’s individuality without her knowledge. He aboriginal allegedly crushed the pills and attempted to unit them into the woman's mouth.

"Patient 1 woke up astatine 4:00 a.m. and saw that you were awake. She fell backmost dormant and past awoke to you physically connected apical of her," the announcement states. "She thought it was a hug, but then, holding her down, you took your fingers and forced a crushed pulverization wrong her bottommost lip, beside her gums. You continued to clasp Patient 1 down."

The pistillate near and called 911, but Abbas allegedly took her phone. She went to a hospital, wherever she was told the medicine had ended the pregnancy.

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Boxes of the cause mifepristone beryllium connected a support astatine the West Alabama Women's Center successful Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Abbas' attorney. 

The University of Toledo said Abbas was placed connected administrative permission aft his aesculapian licence was suspended successful November. 

In a connection to Fox News Digital, the State Medical Board of Ohio said it issued the announcement of accidental for proceeding and summary suspension to Abbas Nov. 5.

"The substance nether probe by the authorities is unrelated to his relation astatine UToledo," a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "UToledo holds its employees to the highest standards of nonrecreational behaviour and volition cooperate with the authorities aesculapian board’s investigative processes.

"A summary suspension suspends a licence to signifier anterior to a hearing," the connection said. "The suspension indispensable beryllium based connected wide and convincing grounds that continued signifier by the licensee poses a information of contiguous and superior harm to the public."

A proceeding connected the substance is scheduled for May 14-15, 2026, the committee said.

"After the hearing, the Hearing Examiner volition hole a Report & Recommendation (R&R) that includes the ground for the hearing, the findings of fact, conclusions of instrumentality and a projected disciplinary authorisation for information by the Board members," it said.

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The announcement said Abbas cannot signifier medicine oregon execute surgeries and indispensable notation his patients to different doctors. In addition, the aesculapian committee determined his continued signifier of medicine presents a "danger of contiguous and superior harm to the public."

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