r/byebyejob • u/Sandstorm400 • 2d ago

Update Ohio doctor who was placed on administrative leave after being accused of crushing up abortion pills and forcing them into his pregnant girlfriend's mouth while she slept, which allegedly ended her pregnancy, is sentenced to six months in correctional facility

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/hassan-james-abbas-sentenced-abortion-drug-case-toledo/512-cda94229-01d7-43c3-88f3-e5a6589c6573

Note: If you are in Europe and can't access the OP link, this alternative source for the story may work: https://www.courttv.com/news/your-story-doesnt-make-sense-judge-jails-doctor-who-gave-girlfriend-abortion-drugs/

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u/xenogazer 2d ago

The lady would have gotten more time if she'd gotten that termination where I live....

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 2d ago

I guess we know how to get around abortion bans now.

“She had an abortion!? Hell no! To the electric chair with her! Babykiller!!!! Wait…what’s that? She was just the victim of some domestic violence? Oh never mind, boys will be boys I guess. Slap on the wrist for him.”

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u/CakeJumper-ImScared 2d ago

The USA is a pretty fucked up place to be a pregnant woman and also a non white christian male, well christian’s that love what the taliban are doing for women’s rights

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u/xenogazer 2d ago

It's scary in general to be anything but a cis white man over here. I was too scared of ice to even go vote last time. They're rounding up people who look like me and IDK what they're doing with all of them...

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u/annadarria 2d ago

Yeah this fact should infuriate everybody! 😡

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 2d ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/pepcorn 2d ago

Yes but under patriarchy it's fine when men decide what happens to women's bodies :(

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u/Emergency-State 2d ago

6 months, wtf

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u/Sandstorm400 2d ago

The doctor was sentenced to 6 months in a correctional facility after pleading no contest to four felony charges:

• Disrupting public services

• Unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug

• Identity fraud

• Deception to obtain a dangerous drug

According to the article, he "used his estranged wife’s personal information to obtain mifepristone and misoprostol from an out-of-state telemedicine provider."

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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue 2d ago

So none of the sentences were related to the actual heinous crime. Was he even originally charged for anything?

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u/Sandstorm400 2d ago

I'm thinking the "Unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug" refers to him allegedly putting crushed abortion drugs in his girlfriend's mouth.

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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue 2d ago

Sure, but that’s a lame-ass generic charge that makes it sound like a dope deal on a corner and does not address the malice and violence of the action. I say violence because what else would you call non consensually forcing your will on someone?

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u/uhhh206 2d ago

But I betcha the law only exists in the first place as a TRAP law targeting abortion providers. Prior to the repeal of Roe v Wade Ohio already had some pretty restrictive laws in some regards (eg: ban on telemedicine providing abortion care, parental consent mandate etc).

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u/Critical_Success_936 2d ago

It's murder to have an abortion, unless a man forces it on you ig

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u/greenweezyi 2d ago

I hate it here.

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u/Ex-maven 2d ago

How much prison time did his girlfriend get? Life? ...or was she (gulp) sent to Tennessee?

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u/yetagainitry 2d ago

If she got an abortion she would get years, he forced an abortion on her and only for 6 months. Riiiiight

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u/BassMaster516 2d ago

I’m gonna save this story. There’s a lot of bullshit sentencing going around and I like to keep things on hand to compare.

The drunk lady cop who broke into a man’s apartment and shot him to death while he ate ice cream on his couch got 10 years, but I read somewhere she’ll be out in 7.

Karmelo Anthony. Not here to debate it. Just saying. 35 years.

This guy. 6 months.

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u/thanksiloveyourbutt 2d ago

Dr. Hassan Abbas, in Toledo. Surgical resident. Rot in hell

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u/JustMeLurkingAround- 2d ago

So they are talking about the death penalty or murder 1 charges for women terminating a pregnancy and this guy drugging another person and forcing the end of a pregnancy gets a slap on the wrist?

I hate this timeline so much.

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u/Hallelujah33 2d ago

Another point for the bear

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u/RichAstronaut 2d ago

Women get the death penalty

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u/ndndr1 2d ago

And y’all said romance was dead

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u/tev3287 2d ago

Yeah men are totally fine

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u/adamiconography 1d ago

So I guess when it’s a man who terminates a pregnancy it’s a slap on the wrist but when a woman terminates her pregnancy it’s the death penalty.

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u/rymyle 2d ago

6 months???

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u/Jogger_Dodger 2d ago

Guy was a doctor with a wife and child. Decided to have a mistress. Mistress decided she wanted to keep the baby. Nobody's wins in this story but, boy oh boy, did that idiot guy fuck himself good.

It's like the assistant coach at UM. Great job, beautiful wife, family. Decides he wants to fuck his young white assistant. Lost it all.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied with what you have.

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u/martusfine 2d ago

UM?

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u/Jogger_Dodger 2d ago

Yeah. University of Michigan.

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u/Setekh79 1d ago

A harsh and brutal punishment, however will he recover from this?

joke.