An Ohio doctor accused of holding down his pregnant girlfriend and cramming crushed abortion pills into her mouth has had his license suspended by the state medical board, which found that he presents a “danger of immediate and serious harm to the public.”
The State Medical Board of Ohio voted unanimously Nov. 5 to approve a Notice of Summary Suspension for Dr. Hassan-James Abbas, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center, citing “clear and convincing evidence” that his conduct violated prohibitions against administering drugs for “other than legal and legitimate therapeutic purposes.”
The board’s investigation found that Dr. Abbas ordered abortion pills online from an out-of-state provider, using his estranged wife’s name, after learning in December 2024 that his girlfriend was pregnant. He wanted her to have an abortion, but she wanted to keep the baby.
The girlfriend identified as Patient 1 awoke shortly after 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2024, to find him “physically on top of her,” the board said in its Nov. 5 report posted online by WTOL-TV.
“She thought it was a hug but then, holding her down, you took your fingers and forced a crushed powder inside her bottom lip, beside her gums,” the document said. “You continued to hold Patient 1 down. She fought to get away and ran to the kitchen where she called 911. You took her phone and hung up the 911 call. A 911 hang-up call was determined to have occurred at this location at 4:50 a.m.”
Dr. Abbas admitted to obtaining the pills and crushing them, but said that his girlfriend had agreed to take them.
He also said that he hung up the 911 call, took the remainder of the crushed pills, and threw them out his car window on the way to work, according to the report.
The girlfriend went to the emergency room and charted as an “assault victim” with a diagnosis of “vaginal bleeding.” The report did not say whether she lost the baby.
No criminal charges have been filed in the case, but the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office obtained search warrants for two properties occupied by Dr. Abbas based on suspicion of “attempted murder, assault and disruption of public services,” the station reported.
Pro-life groups said the allegations offer more evidence of the dangers posed by the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to remove the requirement for an in-person medical visit to obtain abortion pills.
“We call on the FDA to end Joe Biden’s mail-order abortion rule today,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said Tuesday in a statement. “This horrific case shows exactly how the policy endangers women and empowers abusers. This mother wanted to keep her baby — instead, she and her child were violently assaulted because the FDA allows dangerous abortion drugs to be ordered online with no oversight.”
Another sleazy man, surgical resident Dr. Hassan-James Abbas, has been accused of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend and forcing crushed Chemical Abortion Pills into her mouth against her will.
Until our nation begins taming the Wild West that is Chemical Abortion by demanding… pic.twitter.com/JgGn9wnvUA
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) November 12, 2025
More than a half-dozen men have been accused of spiking their girlfriends’ or wives’ drinks or food with abortion pills since 2021, when the FDA temporarily relaxed the in-person requirement during the pandemic. The rule change was made permanent in 2023.
The FDA approved mifepristone for elective pregnancy termination in 2000, but initially required three in-person medical visits. The two-drug protocol of mifepristone and misoprostol now accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. abortions.
Dr. Abbas was notified that he has 30 days to request a hearing on the matter, after which the board will decide whether to take additional action, including revoking his license permanently. He has not commented publicly on the findings.
The University of Toledo Medical Center said that he has been placed on administrative leave.
“The matter under investigation by the state is unrelated to his role at UToledo,” a university spokesperson told WTVG-TV. “UToledo holds its employees to the highest standards of professional conduct and will cooperate with the state medical board’s investigative processes.”
