Pro-life leader sounds alarm after doctor gets 6 months for forcing abortion pills on girlfriend
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, told Fox News Digital that U.S. law has not caught up with the growing availability of abortion medication, allowing predators who use the drugs to end pregnancies without women’s consent to face relatively light consequences. She pointed to the case of Hassan-James Abbas, an Ohio man accused of forcing abortion pills into his pregnant girlfriend’s mouth in December 2024. He was sentenced earlier this month to six months in prison. The woman, Jona Affholder, went to the hospital and ultimately lost the baby. “The fact that this guy got only six months in prison for his crime says a lot about the state of our culture right now,” Dannenfelser said. “This was a very much wanted pregnancy. She could support the baby on her own and didn’t need his help. But he had other ideas in mind.” PRO-LIFE CEO PREDICTS TRUMP FDA NOMINEE COULD BRING RENEWED SCRUTINY TO ABORTION DRUG RISKS Abbas, then a surgical resident at the University of Toledo, began dating Affholder in early October 2024, according to a lawsuit she filed against him. Sometime in December that year, Affholder got pregnant. Authorities said once he found out, he illegally obtained mifepristone and misoprostol using his estranged wife’s identification information. It is unclear whether Abbas prescribed the drugs himself. Taken together, the two medications terminate early pregnancies: mifepristone blocks progesterone, a hormone needed to sustain the pregnancy, while misoprostol causes contractions that expel the fetus. TRUMP-BACKED VIVEK RAMASWAMY WINS OHIO GOP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY, WILL FACE DEMOCRAT AMY ACTON Under current FDA rules, patients do not have to see a physician in person to receive a prescription, allowing mifepristone to be prescribed after a telehealth visit and mailed by a certified pharmacy. After getting his hands on the pills, he began offering Affholder hot chocolate and tea, “which was out of character for their relationship,” according to the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office. On Dec. 18, 2024, Abbas invited her to his home in Holland, Ohio. Prosecutors said despite being aware of Affholder’s intention to keep the baby, he climbed on top of her in bed, held her down and shoved crushed abortion pills into her mouth. Court records show that when Affholder tried to call 911, he took the phone out of her hand and hung it up. Eventually, she was able to leave Abbas’s residence and get to the hospital. Affholder described this experience in a Daily Wire op-ed published in June 2026. HAWLEY SENDS CRIMINAL REFERRAL OF ‘LEFT-WING DARK-MONEY’ GROUP OVER MAILED ABORTION DRUGS “I fought him off and ran to call 911. He took my cell and my keys, blocking me from leaving. I rushed to the kitchen, trying to rinse the powder from my mouth. But he continued to restrain me, buying each minute for the drugs to do their intended purpose of killing our kid,” Affholder wrote. “When he assumed the drugs had sufficiently aborted our baby, he returned my belongings, and I went straight to the hospital,” she added. According to Affholder’s account, she began hemorrhaging after arriving at the hospital and ultimately miscarried. Abbas, who was arrested the next day, initially pleaded not guilty. In May 2026, he pleaded no contest to four felony charges: disrupting public services, unlawfully distributing abortion-inducing drugs, identity fraud and using deception to obtain a dangerous drug. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped charges of abduction and tampering with evidence. The state had alleged that Abbas drove away from the home on the night of the assault and threw the remaining pills out his car window. BLUE STATE SHIELD LAWS ALLOWED 330K ABORTION PILLS TO BE SENT TO ABORTION BAN STATES, PRO-LIFE GROUP FINDS Dannenfelser contrasted Abbas’ six-month sentence with Ohio’s penalties for rape, which can carry years or even life in prison depending on the circumstances. “But… this coercion and this attack that led to the death of her wanted child gets only six months,” she said. In February 2024, Mason Herring, of Texas, received the exact same sentence — six months — for slipping misoprostol into his then wife’s drinks. The baby survived but initially faced severe developmental delays. “If you are Amy Acton running for governor [of Ohio], if you are Sherrod Brown running for the Senate, you need to answer for this because their Republican opponents are very much for limiting these drugs or controlling them at least,” Dannenfelser added. Fox News Digital reached out to both campaigns for comment. Dannenfelser also criticized Planned Parenthood and pro-choice advocates, accusing them of failing to speak out about Affholder’s case and others like it. “Where are the advocates, the feminists, the people who are against the coercion of women, the people who are ‘my body, my choice,’ the people who say that medical care is all that they’re really looking for,” she said. Planned Parenthood does not appear to have publicly commented on Affholder’s case, but the organization has explicitly condemned the act of giving women abortion drugs without their knowledge or consent. Fox News Digital reached out to Planned Parenthood for comment. Dannenfelser said the Department of Justice should take a more active role in prosecuting cases involving forced abortions. “We do have every hope that the attorney general will move on this, and he’s referenced it at the Dallas convention that people who are pushing death in a pill will be disappointed,” she said. “That is the surest way to justice.” On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, joined Dannenfelser in demanding Attorney General Todd Blanche take action, referencing Affholder’s case. “My constituent was held down and force-fed crushed-up mail-order abortion pills,” Moreno wrote to Blanche. “Unsurprisingly, reckless Biden-era mail-in abortion policies are responsible for this hell-on-earth tragedy.”
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President Donald Trump offered a roaring counterbalance to a spate of world leaders bashing Israel or appearing to equivocate between the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and Jerusalem’s response — as one world leader was assailed for his comments on Hamas. Gaza dominated the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire, as world leaders accused Israel of continuing to displace Palestinians and undermine prospects for peace. French President Emmanuel Macron accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the West Bank, questioning the justification for its actions and making a remark that was translated as “Hamas was never active in the West Bank.” MIDDLE EAST TAKES CENTER STAGE AT UN AS REGIONAL LEADERS CONFRONT IRAN WAR, GAZA AND HOUTHI THREAT Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon challenged his claim about Hamas’ presence in the West Bank. “French President Emmanuel Macron claimed from the UN podium that Hamas has ‘never been active’ in Judea and Samaria. Just two days ago, a French citizen was murdered there,” Danon wrote on X. “Mr. President, Emmanuel Macron, do your homework before lecturing Israel. Check the facts.” Asked by Fox News Digital to clarify Macron’s remarks, a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said: “The president meant to say that Hamas does not govern the West Bank. His remarks should therefore not be misinterpreted.” In response to the comments, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reposted Israel’s Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism. Huckabee stated, “Hard to imagine a more out of touch with reality speech than Macron at UN. @AmichaiChikli corrects the record. Hamas is an evil scourge, and they have killed innocent American citizens. Chickli’s post noted in part that, “Since 1990, Hamas has carried out more than 80 lethal terrorist attacks originating in or directed from Judea and Samaria, murdering more than 350 Israeli civilians.” Judea and Samaria is another term used for the West Bank. Macron also accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the West Bank and undermining the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon, where he said villages in the south were being “razed.” Macron questioned the credibility of the international community’s recognition of Palestinian statehood if it failed to act on the situation in Gaza. “Some claim that peace has been achieved,” he said, calling the situation “shameful.” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) as secretary-general, opened fire on Israel’s response in Gaza, describing it as “a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as Secretary-General.” “Amid the turmoil engulfing the region, we must not lose sight of the devastating situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” he said, as the world approaches three years since the Hamas terror attacks that sparked the Israeli military response he spent much of his speech criticizing. At the same time, Guterres lamented the ongoing conflict in Sudan, saying the war-torn East African nation is a place the “world looks away” from wrongly. Yet his decision to single out Gaza as “the worst” devastation he had witnessed during his tenure raised questions about the international community’s uneven attention to two of the world’s deadliest conflicts. Approximately 72,000 Palestinians have been reported killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, compared with an estimated 150,000 people killed in Sudan’s civil war. Many of those killed in Gaza include terrorists. King Abdullah II of Jordan, a regional U.S. ally whose country signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1994, doubled down on the anti-Israel tenor, accusing Jerusalem of “war crimes.” “In my region, from Lebanon to Yemen, to Sudan, protracted conflict is deepening humanitarian suffering,” Abdullah said. “And if anyone had any doubt that a crisis in our part of the world stays there, just look at the energy and grocery bills of ordinary families, from Mumbai to Madrid to Minnesota.” WORLD LEADERS DESCEND ON NEW YORK FOR UNGA — BUT WHO REALLY HAS AMERICA’S EAR? Abdullah said Jordanian field hospitals had been targeted during the first 300 days of the “so-called ceasefire” and lamented the deaths of Palestinian children. He also praised Trump for “pushing hard for peace” while pivoting to fault Israel for “moving the goalposts” and allegedly destroying civilian infrastructure in Gaza. “The question is, is this the behavior of a democratic state governed by law? What is unfolding across the West Bank is not a series of isolated acts. It is elements of a single policy to compel an entire population to leave their land,” Abdullah said. “And there is a name for that: forced displacement. And that is a war crime.” Abdullah also accused Israel of harboring territorial ambitions in Syria, calling on the international community to act. Just before Abdullah, President Donald Trump offered a scathing counterweight to the invective directed at the Netanyahu administration and Israel’s response to Palestinian terrorism. BRITAIN’S DRAMATIC CRACKDOWN ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS SPARKS FIERCE RESPONSE AS US BLOWBACK LOOMS “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon” was a mantra repeated by Trump from the dais, as he noted that the Khamenei regime had also celebrated Oct. 7 as a “service to humanity” while murdering thousands of Iranian citizens in recent months, according to the president. “Just imagine such a vile regime, wherever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield. This was the reality we had to confront, the reality that far too many preferred to ignore,” he said, taking occasional swipes at nations — and previous U.S. leaders — who refused to help neutralize the Iranian threat. “Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” he asked. “But I believe we’ll make a deal right after the election,” he added, suggesting Iran is waiting to see whether Republicans retain control of Congress while noting that he himself is not on the ballot. Meanwhile, criticism of Israel continued from the dais throughout the day. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that
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