Posted on 03/09/2026 10:01:00 AM PDT by Morgana
Susan Robinson, a physician known for performing abortions later in pregnancy and who worked with providers in Albuquerque, has died. Her death is drawing renewed attention to New Mexico’s role in the national abortion industry and Albuquerque’s connection to one of the country’s most widely known facilities offering the procedure.
Robinson’s death was confirmed in a public statement by abortion provider Shelly Sella, who worked alongside Robinson providing third-trimester abortion services in both Wichita, Kansas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Dr. Susan Robinson died this morning, less than a year from her cancer diagnosis,” Sella wrote in a public post. “Susan was my friend and colleague in third trimester abortion care, both in Wichita and Albuquerque… Together, we helped create a model of abortion care that lives on in our mentees.”
Robinson was widely known within abortion advocacy circles and was part of a small group of physicians who continued performing abortions later in pregnancy after the 2009 killing of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller. Following Tiller’s death, only a limited number of facilities in the United States continued publicly advertising the procedure, with Albuquerque emerging as one of the locations most frequently referenced in national reporting.
According to statements from abortion providers themselves, Robinson and other physicians, including Sella, traveled from California to Albuquerque on a rotating basis to perform abortions later in pregnancy, helping sustain the practice at facilities such as Curtis Boyd’s Southwestern Women’s Options.
Only a small number of facilities in the United States publicly advertise abortions later in pregnancy, and Albuquerque has long been one of those locations.
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, several states enacted abortion restrictions or bans. At the same time, New Mexico political leaders, including Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, promoted policies expanding abortion access in the state, positioning New Mexico as a destination for patients traveling from states where abortion laws had changed.
The expansion of access, combined with the absence of common-sense restrictions on abortion procedures in New Mexico, has drawn increasing national attention to what Abortion Free New Mexico’s investigative reporting has identified as a growing pattern of “abortion tourism” into the state.
National journalists have frequently cited Curtis Boyd’s Southwestern Women’s Options when covering abortions later in pregnancy in the United States, particularly after the death of George Tiller. Boyd’s clinic became a focal point in reporting about where such procedures continued to be performed in the years that followed.
Curtis Boyd himself has been a prominent national figure in late-term abortion, practicing for decades and helping establish Albuquerque as a location where abortions later in pregnancy continued to be performed after Tiller’s death.
The clinic later drew additional scrutiny after Abortion Free New Mexico exposed the 2017 death of Keisha Atkins, a young woman who died following a late-term abortion procedure at Southwestern Women’s Options. The case drew national attention and led to a civil lawsuit involving the clinic and medical providers connected to the procedure.
In the years that followed, Boyd sold Southwestern Women’s Options to the owner of Texas-based Alamo Women’s Clinic and later relocated to Florida, marking a significant transition for one of the most widely known facilities performing abortions later in pregnancy.
Tara Shaver, spokesperson for Abortion Free New Mexico, said Robinson’s passing highlights the broader history of the abortion industry’s concentration in New Mexico.
“Dr. Susan Robinson was part of a small but influential group of physicians who helped sustain the late-term abortion industry in America,” Shaver said. “Her connection to Albuquerque underscores how New Mexico has become a focal point for abortions performed late in pregnancy.”
Shaver noted that Abortion Free New Mexico has spent years documenting the growth of the abortion industry in the state through investigative reports, public records requests, and policy analysis
“For nearly two decades, Abortion Free New Mexico leaders have been warning that New Mexico was becoming what many now describe as the late-term abortion capital of America,” Shaver said. “Through investigative reporting, public records research, and on-the-ground documentation, our work has helped bring national attention to the policies, providers, and practices that allowed this industry to expand in our state.”
According to the Guttmacher Institute’s provider survey, approximately 21,000 abortions occurred in New Mexico in 2023, with a significant number involving patients traveling from other states.
Shaver said Robinson’s passing may also prompt renewed questions about the future of late-term abortion providers operating in the United States and whether additional physicians will continue the practice in states like New Mexico.
“Dr. Robinson was part of a small network of physicians who ensured that abortions later in pregnancy continued in the United States after George Tiller’s death,” said Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico. “Her work is part of the larger story of how New Mexico became a national hub for these procedures. The public deserves transparency about that history and about the policies that made it possible.”
Abortion Free New Mexico says it will continue documenting abortion industry practices and public policy developments in the state through investigative reporting, public records research, and community outreach.
The history of providers such as Tiller, Boyd, and Robinson — combined with New Mexico’s post-Roe policy landscape — continues to place Albuquerque at the center of national conversations about where abortions later in pregnancy are performed in the United States.
All those babies she killed.
God is both Justice and Mercy. He will deal with this person properly.
Cedar dave New Mexico ping.
New Mexico lost a baby killer today.
Isn’t the left always telling us that late-term abortions virtually NEVER happen, and hence, there are no laws needed to prevent them?
May she enjoy the occasional glass of ice water.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why she would want this to be her legacy? She died with people knowing she killed babies in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Yet just this week I read where doctors are doing surgeries on babies in the uterus that will help them. She could have been one of those doctors.
I hope and pray she gets the same justice she showed this little babies.
I hope she found God before she died.
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Pure Evil
Hell is a little hotter today!
Officials of the Third Reich kept detailed records; they were proud of their actions in eliminating "untermenschen" and building the Master Race.
“I hope she found God before she died.”
I do too.
I agree.
If she cries out to Him, pleading for forgiveness, He might forgive even her.
Still, we as puny humans have no way of knowing…
It is difficult to understand the actions of anyone who is either mentally ill or just plain evil. It defies logic, explanation, rational thought, and morality.
Late term abortions in a state that had the largest Epstein physicality. Wonder if there is a connection?
Why?
May God, in His infinite mercy, take pity upon her wretched soul...while measuring out His infinite justice upon her.
Good. She has been ABORTED from life. How does THAT feel. while in hell may you feel the pain of all those you had ripped apart. YOU are the garbage you threw them away as. May you spend eternity being ripped apart as you did to others. Do unto others right? May you spend eternity having what you did unto others done unto you. Justice.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
If she died in unbelief, no use praying for mercy now.
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