Ohio Demands Answers - 9/29/26

Pro-life activists and Republican lawmakers rallied outside a courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, saying a doctor's six-month sentence for forcing abortion pills on his sleeping pregnant girlfriend is not enough justice, and it shows the drugs are too easy to obtain by mail. According to a court document cited by Fox News, Hassan James Abbas used his estranged wife's identity to order Mifepristone and Mifepristol online in December 2024, after learning his girlfriend was pregnant. pregnant and said she didn't want an abortion. On December 18, 2024, he crushed the pills and forced them into her mouth while she slept.

She awoke to find a boss pinning her down. When she attempted to call 911, he took her phone and held up the call, records show. The judge sentenced the boss to six months and two years probation for identity fraud and unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug. Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno said, It is hard for me to imagine a wickedness more significant than this. In some other news, a Catholic school in Gaza reopens, welcoming 1,000 students. Praise the Lord. Today is also the Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.

We call upon St. Michael to defend us in battle, and we entrust him to protect our Catholic parishes from harm. I'm Josh Mercer, editor of The Loop, taking you behind the headlines. Go to zeal.co for the rest of today's Loop, and while you're at it, subscribe to get The Loop in your inbox every morning. Again, that's zeal.co.