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.”
According to a Nov. 5 notice, the State Medical Board of Ohio’s investigation found that Dr. Hassan-James 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.
Abbas, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo, has since been placed on administrative leave.
According to the notice, Abbas began “a romantic and sexual relationship” with his girlfriend, also identified as “Patient 1,” around the time he separated from his wife in October 2024. After dating for a few months, she told Abbas on Dec. 7, 2024, that she was pregnant.
The girlfriend awoke shortly after 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2024, to find him “physically on top of her,” the board said in its report.
“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.
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.