An Ohio doctor is no longer authorized to practice medicine or surgery in the Buckeye State after he allegedly force-fed his pregnant girlfriend abortion drugs he mail-ordered under his estranged wife’s name.
The Ohio medical board announced the suspension of Dr. Hassan-James Abbas on Nov. 5 after concluding there is “clear and convincing evidence” that the 32-year-old violated state drug and medical practice laws by reportedly poisoning his pregnant girlfriend with mifepristone in December 2024.
The reported victim told WTOL 11 Investigates that Abba’s employer, the University of Toledo Medical Center, knew about the incident since the beginning of 2025 but did not place him on leave until after the state board’s suspension decision.
The Pill Ploy
According to the board’s summary, Abbas’ relationship with the alleged victim began shortly after he separated from his wife in October 2024. By the beginning of December 2024, the woman referred to as “Patient 1” told Abbas she was pregnant and intended to keep the baby. Abbas allegedly pushed the woman to abort their child, but she refused.
The day after he learned of the pregnancy, Abbas took advantage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s radically expanded and lax mail-order mifepristone allowances to get abortion drugs sent directly to his door three days later. The board’s account of the events claimed Abbas ordered the pills using his estranged wife’s name, date of birth, and driver’s license number “without her knowledge or consent,” which Abbas later admitted to in July 2025.
Abbas allegedly held onto the pills for a few days before using them. In the meantime, he prescribed his girlfriend anti-nausea medication.
When the woman asked Abbas to recommend an obstetrician to establish care with, he replied by asking if she “liked hot chocolate” and invited her over for a cup.
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The next night, after the woman announced she had scheduled her first prenatal appointment, Abbas again invited her over and offered her a hot beverage. She declined the tea but decided to spend the night.
It was the night of Dec. 18 that the girlfriend allegedly awoke to find Abbas “physically on top of her” in an attempt to force “a crushed powder inside her bottom lip, beside her gums.” The woman reportedly “fought to get away” and tried to call 911, but Abbas foiled the call by hanging up.
“A 911 hang-up call was determined to have occurred at this location at 4:50 a.m.,” the board’s report states.
It would be another two hours before the woman checked into an emergency room with complaints that she was bleeding vaginally after she was held down “by the neck” by her boyfriend, who “forced an unknown substance into her mouth.”
According to the board’s summary of suspension, Abbas admitted to nearly everything — ordering the pills under another name, crushing them up and administering them to his girlfriend, ending the 911 call, and disposing of the leftover powdered drugs out a vehicle window — in July 2025. The only difference in his story and the woman’s was his claim that she had agreed to take the pills.
That inconsistency did not appear to have had an effect on the board, which determined Abbas’ behavior likely constituted a “[c]ommission of an act that constitutes a felony in this state” and confirmed Abbas’ “continued practice presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public.”
As a result, Abbas is currently prohibited from practicing medicine or surgery in Ohio but has 30 days to request a hearing. In the meantime, the board will weigh whether it will restore, limit, or revoke Abbas’ license and consider disciplinary action such as a civil penalty of up to $20,000.
While Abbas could still face punishment from the Ohio medical board, he has not been charged by the state.
Abuse Abounds
Approximately 70 percent of abortions are believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires. The Biden administration’s quest to build on the Obama administration’s already questionable abortion pill policies to allow mail-order mifepristone, however, only made it easier for abusers to harm vulnerable women and babies.
Polling suggests that seven in 10 of the 1,600 respondents agree “chemical abortion drugs are used by sexual abusers to cover up rape, exploitation and sex-trafficking” and said doctors should also be required to “screen for and report signs of coercion or abuse” before prescribing mifepristone.
Until that happens, women are susceptible to the injuries and even death that can come after downing mifepristone without medical supervision — especially if, like Abbas’ then-girlfriend, they experience abortion pill poisoning. Already, one in 10 women who ingest mifepristone is said to suffer a serious adverse event such as hemorrhage or infection.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
