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Half of Baby’s Body Left Inside Mother in Botched Abortion
Life News ^ | June 30, 2025 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 06/30/2025 7:02:10 PM PDT by Morgana

A medical negligence lawsuit filed against an Illinois abortionist alleges a botched abortion so severely mishandled that half of an unborn baby’s body was left inside a woman’s, requiring emergency surgery to address life-threatening complications.

The case, has sparked outrage among pro-life advocates who cite it as evidence of the dangers inherent in abortion procedures.

The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe to protect her privacy, underwent an abortion on April 1 and 2, 2023, at Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois. Done by Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle, according to the lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court of Champaign County, the abortionist perforated the woman’s uterus, leaving a hole “about the size of a quarter or half-dollar” and failing to remove significant portions of the 22-week-old unborn child’s body, including most of the baby’s torso, spine, and parts of the arms.

The lawsuit claims the abortionist instructed Doe to take Tylenol and laxatives when she reported severe cramps, delaying critical medical attention.

The surgeon at the hospital where the woman received emergency care noted that a CAT scan revealed what appeared to be a human body, with a visible spine, inside the woman’s pelvis.

Pieces of the baby’s skull had adhered to the woman’s intestines, the surgeon added.

The lawsuit further alleges that Reisinger-Kindle and Equity Clinic failed to provide adequate follow-up care, exacerbating Doe’s suffering. When she sought emergency treatment, surgeons discovered the extent of the damage, including severe trauma to the unborn child’s remains.

On April 5, the woman required emergency surgery to remove the remaining baby parts. A medical report by an obstetrician/gynecologist, included in the court filings, states that Reisinger-Kindle “deviated from a reasonable standard of care” by perforating the uterus, failing to recognize the injury, and not thoroughly examining the baby’s remains post-procedure. The report asserts that an adequate examination would have revealed the incomplete abortion.

The lawsuit further claims that Reisinger-Kindle refused to provide information to a surgeon involved in the emergency procedure, citing patient privacy, though he later spoke with Doe without mentioning the earlier conversation. The plaintiff, a mother of four, is seeking unspecified damages for the physical and emotional toll of the ordeal.

Reisinger-Kindle opened Equity Clinic in 2022 following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which shifted abortion regulation to the states. Illinois has since become a hub for out-of-state abortions, with nearly 17,000 women traveling to the state in 2022 alone, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

This case echoes other reported incidents of botched abortions. In February 2025, LifeNews.com reported that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia allegedly failed to remove all of the baby;s body during an abortion, later inserting an IUD into the still-pregnant woman, who only discovered the error after experiencing complications.

Similarly, in 2016, LifeNews.com detailed a late-term abortion in Michigan where part of a baby’s head was left inside the mother’s womb, requiring subsequent surgery.

Neither Reisinger-Kindle nor Equity Clinic immediately responded to requests for comment. The lawsuit is pending, with a court date yet to be scheduled.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; botchedabortion; botchedabortions; illinois; prolife; reisingerkindle

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1 posted on 06/30/2025 7:02:10 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Evil, sick SOBs they are......


2 posted on 06/30/2025 7:03:52 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Morgana

Sorry, but I say to her, sometimes when you commit murder, things can get messy


3 posted on 06/30/2025 7:06:56 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: lgjhn23

...and no mention of the baby’s life threatening procedure that left it dead.


4 posted on 06/30/2025 7:07:12 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Morgana

I don’t think Dr. Mengele could contemplate something this monstrous.


5 posted on 06/30/2025 7:11:00 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Morgana

Essential female health care! sarc

Remember that euphemism?


6 posted on 06/30/2025 7:14:46 PM PDT by Red6
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To: lgjhn23

They’re obviously demons sent from hell itself.


7 posted on 06/30/2025 7:15:33 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

Reisinger-Kindle is some kind of big wheel at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine OB-GYN Department.


8 posted on 06/30/2025 7:18:20 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Morgana

How long, Lord?


9 posted on 06/30/2025 7:28:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana

I just dont have feelings left to give to any of the adults involved in abortions. Only the baby.


10 posted on 06/30/2025 7:36:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

“ severely mishandled…”

She wants the baby dead. What? What difference does it make?


11 posted on 06/30/2025 7:55:03 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Mean Daddy

After four months, baby too big to br aborted in one piece. They have to chop it up..

Isn’t that ghastly? Poor little thing has a fully developed nervous system, I’ve heard.


12 posted on 06/30/2025 8:14:43 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: Morgana

Abortion providers are the bottom feeders of the medical profession.


13 posted on 06/30/2025 8:51:10 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Morgana

MURDER, plain and simple.


14 posted on 06/30/2025 9:28:27 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: tumblindice

I keep telling you all, Dr. Mengele never even did something this monstrous.


15 posted on 06/30/2025 9:31:27 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

Here’s an idea.

DON’T GET AN ABORTION.

Problem solved. No post abortion complications to deal with.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 10:22:36 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Morgana

I find myself unable to feel any sympathy for this woman. She chose to get pregnant when she had no intention of allowing the baby to live. Disgusting.

I do feel for the baby. No one should ever be subjected to such a barbaric procedure, especially not an innocent defenseless baby.


17 posted on 06/30/2025 11:16:37 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Veto!

The nervous system forms between weeks 2 and 5 after conception. My experience in growing cells for laboratory experiments tells me that cells always function according to what kind of tissue they are. Muscle cells form fibers and contract. Heart cells beat. Neurological cells detect and respond to their environment.

In simple terms, this means that the baby is capable of feeling from the 5th week, if not earlier. Is the pain it feels comparable to the pain I would feel? I don’t know. But I don’t inflict pain needlessly on anything, not even simple animals with rudimentary nervous systems, like worms.

What is certain is that the more a pregnancy progresses, the more acutely the baby feels what is done to it. The nervous system continues to grow in complexity up until about age 25 years.


18 posted on 06/30/2025 11:24:10 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Morgana

For those who don’t know: There is a special nurse tasked with assembling all the baby parts into a gruesome puzzle to make sure all the parts have been recovered.

I have always called them a Death Nurse.
I don’t want to imagine what awaits her in the afterlife.


19 posted on 07/01/2025 1:10:04 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Morgana

That women will have to live with that the rest of her life. It will eat her mind alive ,at what she did to her child.


20 posted on 07/01/2025 2:09:02 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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