An Ohio surgeon is accused of stuffing crushed abortion tablets into his girlfriend’s mouth whereas she slept after he realized she was pregnant — killing her fetus.
Hassan-James Abbas, a 32-year-old surgical resident on the College of Toledo, was in a position to simply acquire the abortion-inducing tablets underneath his estranged spouse’s title from from a telemedicine physician, in keeping with officers.
He then compelled the remedy into his girlfriend’s mouth final yr, in keeping with officers.
“He obtained on prime of me and put his fingers in my mouth,” his girlfriend informed WTOL 11.
“I laid there and I went forwards and backwards in my head [wondering] if he was gonna kill me,” she added.
“That was my greatest thought, that he was going to kill me.”
She survived, however she informed the station that that the remedy ended her being pregnant.
Abbas had been relationship the lady for simply two months when she realized that she was pregnant in December 2024.
However after taking a being pregnant take a look at and sending him — what she thought could be excellent news — she mentioned he referred to as her again “screaming.”
It was throughout that telephone name that she realized for the primary time that he was married however separated.
He tried to influence her to get an abortion, however she needed to maintain the being pregnant, in keeping with paperwork from the State Medical Board of Ohio obtained by the Day by day Mail.
The next day, Abbas obtained Mifepristone and Misoprostol, from an abortion telemedical supplier out of state in his spouse’s title, the data mentioned.
Abbas’ girlfriend, who was as a result of give beginning in August, 2025, started complaining of nausea days after revealing her being pregnant.
On the evening of Dec. 18, she terrifyingly woke as much as Abbas holding her down and forcing a “crushed powder inside her backside lip, beside her gums,” the submitting from the medical board mentioned.
“She fought to get away and ran to the kitchen the place she referred to as 911,” the doc mentioned.
He held her down and compelled her to take heed to his rationalization for half an hour earlier than she drove herself to the emergency room and claimed she had been assaulted.
On the hospital, she realized that her being pregnant had been terminated.
‘[Patient] was held down by the neck by sexual associate after telling him she had a optimistic being pregnant take a look at. [Patient] states that he compelled an unknown substance into her mouth. She shoved and scratched him off her and obtained away at kitchen,” the medical board mentioned.
She was handled on the hospital for vaginal bleeding.
In July, Abbas confessed to researching the medicine he ordered on-line and utilizing the spouse’s info to get them, in keeping with the Medical Board.
“[Abbas] admitted to crushing the abortion remedy for it to dissolve extra shortly. You said that you simply adjusted the remedy administration and didn’t comply with the directions,” the paperwork mentioned.
Nevertheless, he claimed that she agreed to take the medicine.
Abbas’ medical license was suspended after the board discovered he had violated a number of Ohio medical codes.
He was additionally charged with abduction, tampering with proof, illegal distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, disrupting public companies, id fraud and deception to acquire a harmful drug, all felonies.
He was indicted on Nov. 5 and is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 19.
