Pro-life group files licensing complaint against DC second-trimester abortion doctor

Published August 21, 2025 1:13pm ET



An anti-abortion group has filed a medical licensing complaint against a second- and third-trimester abortion provider in Washington, D.C., alleging that the physician’s poor physical health is endangering his patients. 

The advocacy group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust is asking the D.C. Department of Health to suspend the license of Dr. Cesare Santangelo, an OB-GYN with a history of “endangering people’s lives,” according to the group’s complaint, which outlines his three settled medical malpractice lawsuits and dozens of other reports of patient complications and negative experiences.  

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