An Ohio woman has filed a lawsuit against her doctor boyfriend after he allegedly forced to take crushed-up abortion pills. As The Daily Signal previously reported, Dr. Hassan Abbas, a Toledo surgical resident, is facing felony charges after allegedly forcing his girlfriend to ingest crushed up pills after she informed him that she was pregnant. Kelle Saull, the attorney for the alleged victim, told The Daily Signal that, “We have filed suit against Dr. Hassan Abbas, his Father Dr. Jihad Abbas and both UTMC and Pro[M]edica.” “We will not rest until justice is served in this case,” Saull added. Abbas had his license suspended last month by the University of Toledo Medical Center over the accusations. “Dr. Hassan Abbas has now been indicted and placed on leave,” Saull continued. “His employers only placed him on leave after the medical board summarily suspended him; but the victim is relieved it finally happened and she and the public are being protected.” A Recap and an Update Dr. Abbas’ license was suspended last month following a allegations that he forced his pregnant girlfriend to ingest crushed up pills to induce an abortion. After she was forced to take the pills, the alleged victim reportedly fought to get to the kitchen and called 911. But Abbas reportedly took her phone and hung up the call. The victim then drove herself to the hospital and lost the baby. Abbas is said to have ordered abortion pills online under his estranged wife’s name, birthday, and driver’s license number without her knowledge or consent. The charges filed last week, according to WTOL 11, include abduction (third-degree felony), tampering with evidence, unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, disrupting public services, identity fraud, and deception to obtain a dangerous drug. Abbas was indicted by a grand jury in Lucas County and is to be arraigned on December 19. The Daily Signal reached out to prosecutors. A public information officer refrained from commenting, “due to the ongoing nature of the matter,” but provided a copy of the indictment against Abbas in response. Civil Lawsuits ProMedica and the University of Toledo Medical Center are now facing civil lawsuits, according to reporting from WTOL 11. WTOL 11 noted that Abbas was placed in a fellowship program at ProMedica’s Jobst Vascular Institute, where his father, Dr. Jihad Abbas, is the director of the vascular surgery fellowship program. The woman now suing the father and son claims that ProMedica and the University of Toledo Medical Center were made aware of their allegations against Hassan Abbas, and yet still failed to fulfill reporting obligations. ProMedica told The Daily Signal they are aware of the suit against them and plan on addressing “multiple inaccuracies.” “It is important to note that Dr. Hassan Abbas has never been employed by ProMedica,” shared ProMedica Associate Vice President, Strategic Communications Tausha Moore. “Earlier this year, Dr. Hassan Abbas matched with a ProMedica fellowship program set to begin in mid-2026. Since then, ProMedica has initiated the formal process with the National Resident Matching Program to waive his fellowship match.” “We are aware of a recent civil suit involving Dr. Hassan Abbas, a resident at the UToledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, and his father, which revolves around personal matters that are unrelated to our organization,” Moore added. “We have noted multiple inaccuracies in the civil suit filing and plan to address them through the appropriate legal channels.” The Daily Signal reached out to the University of Toledo but did not hear back. The University of Toledo Medical Center told WTOL 11 it is not aware of any litigation and pointed to Abbas being on administrative leave. Concerns With Abortion Method As Prevalent As Ever Pro-life groups have pointed to how Biden-era regulations have made the abortion pill method particularly dangerous, especially as one can acquire pills online. “This shocking case shows how easy it is to obtain dangerous abortion drugs,” Ohio Right to Life Executive Director Carrie Snyder shared with The Daily Signal. She also referred to this method as “the new back alley,” adding that “pregnant women with unsupportive partners are clearly at risk of forced abortion.” Snyder spoke to the role the Food and Drug Administration plays as well, especially given the known side effects of these kinds of abortions. “The FDA should reinstate basic protocols to include an in-person visit before mifepristone can be prescribed. Mifepristone has been shown to cause hemorrhage, infection, sepsis, and other severe adverse events in over 10% of women who take it,” Snyder said. “This drug is never safe for a baby and obviously isn’t safe for women either.” The Daily Signal’s Elizabeth Mitchell recently sat down with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, with Dr. Makary offering that they are in the “data acquisition phase” of a study on the abortion pill. EXCLUSIVE??: @DrMakaryFDA responded to a report saying he is delaying the review of the abortion pill.The FDA is currently in the “data acquisition phase” of the review," he told @DailySignal.“We do an ongoing review, but we’re also engaging in a robust study that can serve… pic.twitter.com/bhkTwXqvby— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) December 9, 2025 Pro-life lawmakers and groups are still calling for more to be done against the abortion pill, however. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is one of those groups and has pointed to the Toledo tragedy as evidence that more action needs to be taken. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the group’s president, told The Daily Signal that, “Abortion drug crimes like those that occurred in Toledo are not isolated incidents.” “These poisonings are the frightening new wave of domestic violence, thanks to the Biden mail-order rule that enables abusers to get their hands on deadly drugs,” Dannenfelser continued. “The profit-driven abortion industry is perfectly happy to sell them by app, ‘completely free of face-to-face interaction with a clinician,’ with no one really checking who’s on the other end.” “The result is women end up in the ER and their babies die, even when they themselves never considered abortion,” Dannenfelser said. Dannenfelser also brought up the Trump administration. “It’s time for an honest national conversation about the harm of mail-order abortion drugs, which in many ways resembles the opioid crisis and threatens to tear the states apart,” Dannenfelser claimed. “And while the FDA should follow through on its promised safety review, they don’t have to wait to restore safeguards like in-person doctor visits from the first Trump administration.” The post Lawsuits Hit Toledo Doctor and Medical Institutions Caught Up in Alleged Abortion Pill Crime appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL–Almost two years after a Democrat-elected prosecutor secured a conviction against then-candidate Donald Trump, a New York appeals court could decide soon on the appeal of the Manhattan felony conviction. “There is no upside for the courts to string this along. So, we could see a ruling soon,” said Dan Backer, counsel for the watchdog group Coolidge Reagan Foundation, who co-wrote an amicus brief filed Monday and first shared with The Daily Signal. The brief, filed in the First Department Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, calls for reversal of Trump’s conviction.  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, secured a 34-felony count indictment against Trump, alleging that he falsified business records regarding supposed hush money payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Gregory Clifford.  Bragg’s team argued that Trump’s hush money payment subverted the 2016 election, and was effectively a campaign finance violation that Trump covered up. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation contends that state prosecutors cannot enforce federal campaign finance laws under the Federal Election Campaign Act. The Bragg conviction in May 2024 occurred after Trump had effectively secured the Republican nomination. This gave Democrats the long-desired talking point of referring to Trump as a “convicted felon,” a label that eluded Democrats in the deluge of other anti-Trump lawfare from Democrat prosecutors at the federal and state level. “The appeals court could say, ‘If 12 jurors want this conviction, we don’t care about the rule of law,’” Backer told The Daily Signal. “Or the judges could decide they don’t want to be overruled by a higher court.” Trump NY App Div brief FINALDownload The filing primarily argues that Bragg attempted to criminalize conduct he has no jurisdiction over, while relying on a theory that contradicts federal election law. Backer said the amicus brief brings up unique issues “buried in the massive pleadings” in the appeal. The brief further contends that New York election law applies only to elections for state and local public offices, not the presidential race. The brief argues that the Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits state prosecutions.  “States are expressly prohibited from prosecuting FECA cases,” Becker noted. “Congress determined that states cannot prosecute for federal campaign finance law. There is a reason low-ranking yahoos like Alvin Bragg aren’t supposed to prosecute these cases. … The FEC looked at this and found no violation. The [Merrick] Garland DOJ could have acted on this with or without the FEC, and didn’t. No federal prosecutor was willing to take this up.” He continued, “The entire case was built on the legal theory of ‘Orange Man Bad.’” Trump formally appealed his conviction in October, claiming that Judge Juan Merchan should have recused himself in the case due to his ties to Democrats. Ahead of Trump’s second term, the Supreme Court ruled the sentencing could move forward. Because of Trump’s November 2024 victory, Judge Merchan determined unconditional discharge was the best option for the case, meaning that Trump would not face jail time or fines. However, Trump filed the appeal to clear his name.  The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office did not respond to phone or email inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story.  After the conviction, Bragg cast the ruling as upholding the law in the tradition of prosecuting white collar crimes.  “The 12 every-day jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law—and the evidence and the law alone,” Bragg said in a statement after the May 2024 conviction. “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt: That the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.” The post EXCLUSIVE: How Trump’s ‘Convicted Felon’ Label Could Soon Vanish appeared first on The Daily Signal.

At least 15 people are dead after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi beach. Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese has called the deadly shooting an “act of terror and antisemitism.”   The victims of the Sydney shooting range in age from 10 to 87, according to the Associated Press. About 40 others sustained injuries during the attack.   The shooting is reported to have been carried out by a father and son. Police shot and killed the father, and the son, 24, was wounded before being arrested.   The Sunday shooting is the deadliest antisemitic attack carried out on civilians since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which left 1,200 people dead.   Antisemitic attacks have increased since Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement. Between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 1, 2025, there were 13,339 recorded antisemitic incidents around the world, the group reports.   After the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the world saw the “largest surge in antisemitism in modern history—and that surge has not slowed. It has deepened, spread, and been excused,” Sacha Roytman, CEO of Combat Antisemitism Movement, says.   The majority of the over 13,000 antisemitic incidents in the past two years have not been deadly, but at least half a dozen have resulted in lives lost. Manchester Synagogue Attack, October 2025   Jewish worshippers were gathered at a Manchester synagogue for Yom Kippur on Oct. 2 when Jihad al-Shamie, 35, launched the attack by driving his car at security personal. Shamie stabbed a man to death outside the synagogue, and police accidentally shot another man as law enforcement responded to the attack.   Police shot and killed the attacker who had moved to Britain from Syria as a teen.   Jerusalem Bus Stop Shooting, September 2025 Six people were killed at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Sept. 8 in what authorities described as a “terrorist attack.”   Two Palestinian gunmen reportedly carried out the attack that left another 21 people injured, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.    Boulder, Colorado Attack, June 2025 On June 1, Mohamed Soliman used a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary device as he shouted, “Free Palestine,” and attacked a group of people in Boulder, Colorado who were marching in solidarity with the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza at the time.   About a dozen people were injured and one 82-year-old woman, Karen Diamond, later died from her injuries.   Israeli Embassy Staff Killed, May 2025 A gunman opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21 taking the lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a soon-to-be-engaged couple who worked at the Israeli Embassy.    The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, entered the museum following the shooting and shouted, “Free, free Palestine” as authorities arrested him.   Protestor Confrontation in Ventura, California, November 2023 Loay Alnaji, a pro-Palestine protester, is accused of hitting pro-Israel protester Paul Kessler with a megaphone in November 2023, causing Kessler, 69, to fall back and hit his dead on the pavement. Kessler died in the hospital the next day.   Kessler had an Israeli flag in his hand and was near a pro-Palestine demonstration in Ventura, California when the confrontation began. Alnaji has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious bodily injury.   The post 6 Deadly Antisemitic Attacks and Incidents Since Oct. 7  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

No one spends a dollar better than the person who earned it. That adage reveals the crux of massive fraud and improper payments that plague federal health insurance programs and drive up costs for taxpayers. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, more than 95% of the fictitious applications the GAO created and attempted to enroll in Obamacare were approved and enrolled, with insurance companies receiving thousands of taxpayers’ dollars per month on behalf of those fake enrollees.  The details of the GAO report reveal the utter negligence and perverse incentives that result when the federal government puts taxpayers’ money up for grabs to people who didn’t earn it. That includes the agents and brokers who receive commissions from insurance companies when they enroll individuals—real or fake—into federal marketplace health plans. Most Obamacare enrollments are assisted by an agent or broker. And it includes the insurance companies that can receive upward of $10,000 per year of taxpayers’ money for every individual—real or fake—enrolled in their plans. For instance, out of four fake applicants GAO sought to enroll in 2024, two were initially flagged by the system’s automatic identity checks, but later cleared after submitting fictitious identification documents, including fake citizenship documents. In the other two cases, in which GAO worked with brokers to enroll fake applicants, the system the brokers used initially flagged the applicants’ Social Security numbers as unverified. But after the GAO’s fake applicants authorized their brokers to work toward enrollment on their behalf, “Both brokers worked with the Marketplace Call Center—without the applicants—to successfully submit the applications with invalid SSNs.” The GAO noted of its false enrollment attempts that, “We either were not requested to provide the federal Marketplace with documentation or generally did not provide what was requested, yet our four fictitious applicants received subsidized coverage …” Sometimes, Obamacare’s fraud detection systems not only failed to detect fraud but manufactured false verifications. As the GAO noted, “In one case, we received a notice from the federal Marketplace that it confirmed the applicant’s estimated income based on documentation we submitted. However, we did not submit documentation to confirm the applicant’s income.” In other cases, the most basic checks are ignored. Social Security numbers provide a unique identifier, both to prevent fake enrollment through stolen Social Security numbers, and to ensure the accuracy of Obamacare payments based on income that is linked to Social Security numbers. Yet, when GAO examined the reconciliation of income data from tax records to Social Security numbers, it could not identify evidence of such reconciliation for 32%, or $21 billion of all tax credits paid in 2023. Moreover, while an applicant’s Social Security number should serve as a basic check to make sure that the same individual—or fake Social Security number or stolen identity—isn’t enrolled more than once, the GAO nevertheless found more than 29,000 Social Security numbers that received more than 365 days of plan coverage in 2023 and more than 66,000 Social Security numbers that were similarly enrolled more than once in 2024. In the most egregious example, one Social Security number “was used to receive subsidized insurance coverage for over 26,000 days (over 71 years of coverage) across over 125 insurance policies” in a single year. The GAO also identified over 7,000 instances in which the Social Security numbers of individuals enrolled in Obamacare in 2023 were for individuals who were identified in the Social Security Administration’s death files with reported death dates prior to their enrollment applications. Payments were nevertheless made to brokers and health insurance companies for these dead Obamacare enrollees. In addition to fake and fraudulent enrollments, the GAO report also noted that brokers often act illegally to make changes to an individual’s insurance plan—typically changes that will result in payment from an insurance company to the broker—without their consent. The GAO identified at least 160,000 applicants (1.5% of relevant applicants) that likely had unauthorized changes made to their plans in 2024. This aligns with a CMS statement noting that it received more than 90,000 complaints in the first eight months of 2024 from individuals who had their Obamacare plans changed without their consent. Unfortunately, fraud, abuse, and improper payments are not contained to Obamacare—they are rampant across the federal government and have been growing exponentially alongside the massive expansion in federal spending. Last year alone, the federal government identified $162 billion in improper payments among the programs that it examined. But that’s a massive understatement as the government often fails to properly audit programs. For example, Brian Blase and I found that Medicaid’s reported improper payments are half their more realistic total of $1.1 trillion over the past decade. There is plenty that lawmakers can and should do to protect the integrity of taxpayer spending. That includes not extending what were supposed to be temporary COVID subsidies that have exploded in costs and further subsidized insurance companies’ profits. And it ultimately requires right-sizing the federal government because the more opportunities fraudsters have to steal taxpayers’ money, the more they will take. The post Fraught With Fraud: Undercover GAO Investigation Reveals 95% of Its Fake Enrollees Received Obamacare Subsidies appeared first on The Daily Signal.

House Republican leadership is hoping to pass a health care plan this week. But it could hit some major speed bumps along the way. Going into the last week in session before Christmas break, House Republicans are in a rush to pass premium-slashing legislation to counter Democrat-led efforts to extend enhanced premium tax credit levels set in place under President Joe Biden. Republicans, arguing that these tax credits are expensive, prone to fraud, and inflationary, are now trying to advance their policy alternative as the credits are set to expire at the end of the year. What’s in and What’s out? The Republican bill is not a highly ambitious repeal, reform, or restructuring of Obamacare. Rather, it is a bundle of focused tweaks to the health insurance system that aims to lower health care costs, instead of the government’s current strategy, which has been to have government subsidize an increasingly unaffordable health care system. The bill’s lack of highly controversial provisions is by design, as Republicans will need to rally their narrow majority in the House and pick up least seven Democrat votes in the Senate to have any chance of the bill reaching the president’s desk before the credit expiration date. Many of the Republican proposals debated in recent weeks have involved setting up flexible health savings accounts as a replacement for the enhanced premium tax credits. The House bill left those flexible health savings accounts out, however. A House Republican leadership aide told The Daily Signal that they remain open to this idea in the future, but that their “bills right now, I think, have a real strong consensus, and again, lower premiums for all Americans.” The biggest change in bill is the appropriation of Treasury funding toward cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), a part of Obamacare. In theory, CSRs involve insurers being required to offer cheaper copays and deductibles to consumers for out-of-pocket expenses, for which the federal government reimburses them. Under Obama, funding for CSRs was originally provided directly from the executive branch to insurers, without explicit Congressional approval. This practice faced a Republican-backed court challenge before finally being cut off in 2017 during President Donald Trump’s first term. This change led to what is called “silver loading,” as insurers increased premiums on the Obamacare silver-level plan in order to make up for no longer being reimbursed for offering the legally mandated cheaper copays and deductibles. Proponents say that renewing funding for CSRs is that it will effectively end silver loading, thereby lowering premiums substantially. Additionally, although counter-intuitive, funding CSRs is likely to reduce the federal deficit, per the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan budgetary analysis office funded by Congress. This is due to the fact that higher premiums from silver loading have automatically increased the deficit costs from premium tax credits, which cover a set percentage of premiums for each income level. Thus, despite the fact that the bill’s most important provision is a subsidization of a tenet of Obamacare, its deficit-cutting effect could prevent it from upsetting House fiscal hawks, many of whom entered politics as crusaders against Obamacare and the national debt. Mountain-High Procedural Hurdles The bill does not include any extension of the enhanced premium tax credits—possibly a disappointment to moderate House Republicans in swing districts, who have been calling for a short-term extension. Some moderate Republicans have signed on to efforts to extend the tax credits that Democrats shut the government down over in October. Now, moderates are expected to put on somewhat of a political show. Republican moderates will likely be allowed to propose an amendment to extend the credits in some form, but the House’s “Cut-As-You-Go” rule prohibits the adoption of amendments whose mandatory spending are expected to produce a net increase in deficits over either a six or 11-year fiscal period. Thus, any proposed amendment would likely have to include massive offsetting provisions reducing mandatory spending to make up for projected lost revenue from extending the credits. Before a bill comes to the House floor, it makes a stop at the House Rules Committee, where committee members set the terms for debate of the measure.  On Tuesday, moderates are expected to bring forth their amendment in rules committee, but it is unclear how they might tweak it to make it viable. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images) The question facing House leadership is whether or not GOP moderates stay on board with the bill if they do not extend the credits. The big danger for Republicans is that more Republican members will get behind discharge petitions looking to force a vote on extending the credits. Separate discharge petitions from Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., would force votes on a two-year extension. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has his own petition for a three-year extension. The success of any one of these petitions would be a setback for the Republican effort to counter Democrats on the premium affordability issue. And if Republicans lose this political battle, the midterms could be messy. The post Will the House GOP Health Care Plan Survive the Week? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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We’ve got a new interactive series called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.   Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).   The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is… Jennifer Welch! The co-host of the I’ve Had It podcast and former Bravo reality show host won with 60 percent of the vote. Welch took first place for her disgusting attack on Erika Kirk. ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin came in second place with 28 percent. Finishing last was former CBS Late Show host David Letterman at 12 percent. The following is a montage of all the nominees:      WINNER (60 percent of the vote)   Jennifer Welch: Erika Kirk Is a “Grifter” Just like Trump and Her “Unrepentant, Racist, Homophobic Husband” “She [Erika Kirk] is a grifter. And just look at the costume changes. Look at the costume changes. Look at the affect and how she does that. It’s wild. This woman should be kicked to the curb. She is an absolute grifter. Just like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband was.”— Co-host Jennifer Welch on the I’ve Had It podcast, December 7.   SECOND PLACE (28 percent of the vote)   Sunny Hostin Attacks Trump’s “Xenophobia” and “Racism” Language That Leads to “White Supremacy” Taking Over a Country “I think everyone should be offended at the blatant xenophobia and racism that comes from the highest office in the United States - and the misogyny. And so now he’s just openly embracing these words like garbage, like filth….and vermin….Where have we heard that language, Whoopi? We have heard that language in places, fascist places where white supremacy has taken over the country.”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, December 10.     THIRD PLACE (12 percent of the vote)   David Letterman Sucks Up to Anti-Trump Host Jimmy Kimmel: “You Are the Leader of the Resistance” “People are aware of the fact that you are the leader of the resistance?...I’m gonna suck up to you because I feel like if I kind of tag along with you, I’ll be glorified in retrospect….If the leader of the free world is a fool, the leader of the free world then should expect and examine every bit of ridicule he receives.”— Former CBS Late Show host David Letterman to Jimmy Kimmel on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, December 9.   Thanks again to all who participated!    Funded by James P. Jimirro

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