Lawsuit alleges Illinois doctor botched abortion, which led to what longtime surgeon described as ‘the worst thing I’ve ever seen at surgery’

Catholic Vote ^ | March 24, 2025 | McKenna Snow

[Morgana]

Warning: The following article contains upsetting and graphic content. Reader discretion is advised.

CV NEWS FEED // An Illinois-based abortionist is facing a lawsuit alleging that he botched a surgical abortion by leaving more than half of the unborn child inside the mother’s body, prompting her to need an emergency surgery.

“This was the worst thing I’ve ever seen at surgery and I’ve been doing this for over 30 years,” one of the surgeons told Melinda Henneberger, author of a March 23 opinion article about the lawsuit for the Kansas City Star.

“We knew from the CAT scan that she could have a perforated uterus, because you could see what looked like a human body. You could see a spine,” the surgeon said.

According to both the surgeon and the lawsuit, most of the child was still there, except for his or her legs, and parts of the arms.

The American Association of Pro Life OBGYNs posted excerpts from the lawsuit, which includes the surgeons’ notes from the operation: “The patient was found to have half of a deceased pre-born human being in the right pelvis of the patient with evidence of severe and intentional trauma … The skull was crushed and no brain was present. The face was non-recognizable. … There were small bony fragments in the mother’s pelvis.”

To respect her privacy, Henneberger did not name the mother, a 32-year-old woman of color who has four children and little income and was experiencing pressure, “in my mental space and my environment,” regarding the challenge of having another child. The mother had previously scheduled an abortion at one facility but backed out.

She went to the second facility, Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle’s Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois, in April 2023, for an abortion when she was between 22 and 23 weeks pregnant.

After the abortion, she began experiencing excruciating pain in her abdomen.

She said that Reisinger-Kindle responded to her calls to his hotline by saying she should take Tylenol and then a laxative. She went to the emergency room and underwent a CAT scan two days later, suffering from crippling pain.

“They said, ‘You have a baby in there, and you need emergency surgery,’” the woman explained to Henneberger.

Reisinger-Kindle, who is based in Ohio, opened the Illinois-based Equity Clinic after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to Henneberger. He travels to the Illinois facility to commit abortions on weekends.

The woman told Henneberger that she had difficulty finding a lawyer willing to take on her malpractice case. The response from some lawyers was that her case would be hard to sympathize with both because she chose to have the abortion and because she survived it. Henneberger posited that some lawyers may have considered the payoff of this lawsuit as too low — the settlement would have been higher if she had died.

“Most lawyers preferred if my family members had reached out due to my death,” the woman told Henneberger.

Richard Craig, a lawyer based in Chicago, took the case. He said, according to Henneberger, that while the abortion was elective, “I don’t think anybody elects to have half of her baby left behind; that’s a bone-chilling event.”

“How a doctor misses half of the fetal remains is completely beyond me,” Craig said. “How could you look and not see? He sent her on her way and the community hospital had to clean up his mess.”

[Morgana]

IF I was the doctor who was forced to "clean up" after a botched abortion I'd take the dead baby parts down to the abortionist, dump them on his desk, and say "YOU FORGOT THIS!" Then walk away.

Yea the medical board would not be thrilled but I don't give a shit.

[GMMC0987]

The primary goal was to kill the baby. Having done that all other concerns are trivial.

[Morgana]

“The primary goal was to kill the baby. Having done that all other concerns are trivial.”

that is why abortionists are the worst of the worst.

What doctor you know of does an operation to remove something and only takes out half or less than half of it leaving it for another doctor to take care of? Like say removing an appendix? What he only gets 1/4 of it? Not going to happen.

Yet these abortionists do this all the time and are allowed to do it.

[BipolarBob]

Amen. These stories sicken me. I couldn’t serve on a jury involving this because I’d . . . get arrested in the courtroom.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

From a Google search:

Keith Reisinger-Kindle is Ob/Gyn faculty at Wright State University where he is the Founder and Director of the first anti-racism research lab in the region and one of the Program Directors for the Residency Program. His research experience has been mostly focused on translational research in both medical education and clinical settings, with a specific focus on improving outcomes for communities of color and creating inclusive learning environments. Keith looks forward to learning more about patient-centered research and believes it is the only way researchers will be able to make progress on race-based healthcare disparities, and specifically in addressing the maternal mortality crisis. Keith has significant peer review experience and is motivated to expand his skill and experience set.

And....

As a Queer identifying physician, I understand the barriers many LGBTQ patients face in accessing care. Equity Clinic is a uniquely designed family planning/abortion clinic in that we founded our organization on principles of equity and social justice. We provide family planning services including contraception and abortion services. Our staff are trained in anti-oppression activism and receive specific training on anti-heterosexism and anti-transphobia including appropriate language and humility. Our intake process and history forms are gender affirming/neutral. All our facilities are gender affirming/neutral.

But as a surgeon, he has all the skill of a butcher.

[Organic Panic]

Kill the baby AND collect the money with the kickback to the democrat party.

“32-year-old woman of color who has four children and little income” And here is a thought, mom. Stop having sex.

[SaveFerris]

[The primary goal was to kill the baby.]

Democrat Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama is a notorious baby-killer, too.

Alan Keyes JUSTLY and RIGHTFULLY said "Obama supports INFANTICIDE"

Democrat Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama certainly DOES like baby-killers - it's in his Satanic DNA

AND if a baby SURVIVED an ABORTION ATTEMPT Democrat Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama MADE SURE their lives were NOT saved by going AGAINST the Illinois Born-Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA). Jill Stanek, nurse, told us ALL about it.

What many Americans voted for in November, 2008:

[Samurai_Jack]

increasingly the terms ‘botched’ and ‘abortion’ are in use together. It’s not only the unborn who are dying from this misapplied procedure.

[ozarker]

In early 90’s there was a st louis based abortionist who ran clinics in springfield, and cape girardeau a couple days a week. Had complication at clinic in springfield, pt seizing, coded. There was no crash cart or even an ambu bag in clinic. They just called for an ambulance, pt died. I think he closed springfield operation after someone with a shotgun came after him. Don’t know if it was related. Springfield ob/gyn docs hated this guy, they had to clean up a lot of his mistakes.

[Albion Wilde]

IF I was the doctor who was forced to "clean up" after a botched abortion I'd take the dead baby parts down to the abortionist, dump them on his desk, and say "YOU FORGOT THIS!" Then walk away.

But Morgana, he wouldn't care. They see the body parts all the time. In fact, part of the process is to reassemble the parts after the abortion to make sure they got everything—obviously he skipped this step. The only solution for hardened wretches like this is to hit them in the wallet.