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Kermit Gosnell, who is currently on trial awaiting a verdict on over one hundred abortion-related criminal charges, was responsible not the deaths not only of thousands of pre-born children, but also of at least two mothers. Semika Shaw was killed by Kermit Gosnell in the year 2000 – ten years before he was shut down. Despite complaints from her family after Semika’s death at the hands of the abortionist, Gosnell continued to operate, enshrined by the silence and blind eyes he received from medical and governmental authorities alike. Semika Shaw was only twenty-two years old when she died. She was...

Chicago, IL – Two women who received abortions at the Planned Parenthood facility on LaSalle Drive in Chicago were transported by ambulance in July 2018, to Northwestern Hospital for emergency care for serious bleeding. Since November 2017, at least six women have been hospitalized after botched abortions at this Planned Parenthood abortion facility alone. Two 911 recordings that were provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, revealed important information about the latest emergencies. The first incident took place on July 5, 2018, when a Planned Parenthood worker called 911 for an ambulance to transport a 35-year old woman...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The family of a 23-year-old Albuquerque woman who died from a late-term abortion said the abortion clinic and UNM Hospital could have done more to save her. "Whether you're pro life, pro choice whatever you are on this issue, everyone should be concerned about the reckless practices that led to the death of this healthy 23-year-old Albuquerque woman," said Elisa Martinez, a spokesperson for Keisha Atkins' family. Atkins' family said the 23-year-old died after getting a late-term abortion last year. According to the lawsuit, Atkins was six months pregnant when she went to Southwestern Women's Options...

Chicago, IL — Newly obtained 911 records indicate that there were four medical emergencies within four months at the busy Planned Parenthood abortion facility on LaSalle Drive in downtown Chicago. The four call recordings, provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, indicate that Planned Parenthood employees dialed 911 for the following reasons: • October 4, 2017: A 35-year old woman required emergency transport after an abortion for bleeding “more than normal.” • November 16, 2017: A 20-year old woman suffered seizures after an abortion and needed to be transported to the hospital for further care. • February 3,...

A pastor of the Christ Chosen Church of God known as Ngbeken Elvis, has been arrested for the death of a mother of four children simply identified as Mama Sarah. Mama Sarah, aged 38, died while procuring abortion for the pregnancy she had for Pastor Elvis. Both of them were said to have been in a secret relationship for over six months. Mama Sarah's husband resides abroad and has built a house for his family where the late wife and children live at Okhokhugbo community in Egor local government area. She was said to have died at a hospital she...

Ms Buckman tried to book an abortion when she was seven weeks pregnant and waited two weeks - but the medical procedure failed and the next two appointments did not go ahead due to lack of staff. The mother-of-two's last booked procedure was cancelled just hours before it was due and she must now wait two more weeks for an appointment - a two-hour drive from her Kent home. Ms Buckman, now 15 weeks pregnant, is angry at the treatment she received at Marie Stopes UK, which carries out abortions for the NHS. Most abortions in England, Wales and Scotland...

Chicago, IL – Emergency 911 records received by Operation Rescue reveal that two women were hospitalized within three days of each other last March after having abortions at Family Planning Associates Medical Group (FPA) in Chicago, Illinois. The Pro-Life Action League initially obtained the 911 records and released them to Operation Rescue for publication. Both women suffered from bleeding so serious after their abortions that clinic staff called 911 for emergency help. “This Family Planning Associates abortion facility has a long history of medical malpractice related to botched abortions,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Women need to be...

Columbus, OH – A new round reporting forms for 2017 and part of 2018 obtained by Operation Rescue show that complications in Ohio to medication abortions done using the drug RU486, also known as mifepristone or Mifeprex, have skyrocketed over the past two years. The rise in complications is tied to a dramatic increase in the use of medication abortions in that state. While overall abortions have steadily decreased since 1997, the use of mifepristone in conjunction with misoprostol to cause abortions has slowly increased until 2016 – the most recent year for which there are statistics – when medication...

At least 22 women have died after taking the abortion pill regimen, RU-486, and many others have experienced serious complications, according to updated data from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While abortion — and specifically, medication abortion — is sold to women as “safe,” there can be serious and life threatening complications from the abortion pill, as noted by the pills’ manufacturer, Danco. Although Danco is required to report any death associated with Mifeprex, women experiencing complications, various factors — such as not returning to the abortion provider or not reporting use of the drug to emergency personnel —...

Beverly Hills, CA – Hundreds of people drive by it every day without giving it a second thought. But this nondescript gray concrete and glass building, which is virtually indistinguishable from others on Beverly Hill’s La Cienega Boulevard, has a secret. There are no flashy signs or pink logos outside this building to draw women inside, but it houses an abortion facility nonetheless. But it is not just any abortion facility. To walk into the waiting room of the Prochoice Medical Center, a woman might feel like she is walking into someone’s living room. Plush upholstered furnishings and lighted artwork...

Charlotte, NC – Even though Diamond Renee Williams died in 2016, it is still extremely emotional for her mother, Shakira, to talk about it. It was January 23 of that year, one day after supporters of abortion around the nation celebrated 43 years of Roe v. Wade and so-called “safe and legal” abortion on demand. But it’s doubtful that eighteen-year old Diamond Williams had the politics of abortion on her mind as she and her mom reported to the Carolina Center for Women, an abortion facility on Wendover Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a scheduled six-week surgical abortion. Diamond,...

Bellevue, Nebraska – It was clear she didn’t want to be photographed. When the most recent abortionist came to work at LeRoy Carhart’s Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska in Bellevue, Nebraska, she was picked up by another employee and rushed past pro-life activists with a book over her face. But when an ambulance came for one of their patients on May 4, 2018, she came out on the sidewalk and watched the seriously injured woman was loaded into an ambulance for transport to a nearby hospital. Now, with the help of local pro-life activists, Operation Rescue has confirmed that...

A New York doctor who says he's done 40,000 abortions is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the 2016 death of a woman who was six months pregnant and bled to death. The case in Queens Criminal Court marks one of the rare legal instances of criminal prosecution of a doctor over a medical error, but Assistant District Attorney Brad Leventhal said that Dr. Robert Rho's mistakes went beyond civil malpractice. "It's about greed and arrogance," Leventhal told jurors last week during closing arguments in the month-long trial. He said 30-year-old Jaime Lee Morales "bled to...

PRESS RELEASE Queens, NY – In a move that shocked the court, Robert Rho accepted a previously offered plea bargain and admitted his guilt to Felony Negligent Homicide immediately after the judge announced that the jury had reached a verdict in this three-week trial. Rho will be sentenced and will surrender into custody on July 26, 2018, after which he will serve between 16 months and four years in prison for killing Jaime Lee Morales during a horrifically botched second trimester abortion. “Robert Rho killed Jaime Morales and has now grudgingly admitted his crime. He will pay for that crime...

FULL TITLE: Coroner finds “repeated failures” and an “element of complacency” in abortion clinic’s treatment of woman who died in late-term abortion Last week we reposted a story from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) which provided horrific details that came out at the beginning of an inquest into the death of 31-year-old Aisha Chithira. Mrs. Chithira had traveled from Ireland to have a late-term abortion in one of Great Britain’s most prominent abortion chains. In its coverage today, even the Irish Times, pro-abortion to the core, had to headline its story “Woman’s death after abortion prompts...

FULL TITLE: Defense Plays Race Card While Prosecution Tells Jury Greed and Arrogance Led to Abortion Patient Death Queens, NY – The criminal manslaughter case goes to the jury today after often emotional and sometimes shocking closing arguments were presented by the prosecution and the defense against abortionist Robert Rho, who is accused of causing the death of Jaime Lee Morales, 30 during a fatally botched in the 26th week of her pregnancy. Operation Rescue’s courtroom observer, Lauren Handy, will be in court awaiting a verdict in this trial that is now in its eighteenth day. Also present in court...

Cleveland, OH – As the wail of approaching sirens grew louder, those on both sides of the abortion battle readied themselves for action. Pro-life activists praying on the sidewalk on March 24, 2018, outside of Preterm, a high-volume abortion business in Cleveland, Ohio, readied their cameras and prepared to document yet another medical emergency at that facility – the twelfth such known incident since 2010. Meanwhile, clinic employees and escorts positioned themselves to disrupt attempts to document the incident. As the gurney bearing the woman requiring emergency assistance emerged from the carport under the building, both sides shifted into action....

The majority of debate between pro-lifers and abortion advocates has centered around the 20-week abortion ban that failed in the Senate Monday. Another important bill, however, recently passed the House and would prevent babies who’ve been born after botched abortions from being murdered shortly thereafter.The U.S. House approved the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in January, and it requires health care practitioners to give the same care to a child born alive after a botched abortion as they would provide to any other child birthed at the same gestational age. They must also ensure that babies born after botched abortions are immediately admitted to a...

Tomorrow the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act that would protect infants who survive a failed abortion. AFA encourages you to contact and urge your Congressman to vote for this bill. Just so you know, during the 114th Congress (2014-15), this same bill passed the House, but a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate allowed the bill to die. Senate Republican leadership, namely Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is to blame despite the overwhelming number of Republican Senators who would have voted for the bill.

Dayton, OH – For the first time in 2018, pro-life activists in Dayton, Ohio, have reported that an ambulance arrived at the Women’s Med Center abortion facility in Dayton, Ohio, to transport a patient to the hospital. The incident took place on Thursday, January 4, 2018, shortly before noon, and was photographed by multiple pro-life activists who shared their pictures with Operation Rescue. “It is tragic that just four days into the New Year, we see yet another woman injured by abortion,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “We are dedicated to praying and working toward the day when...