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Aurora, IL — As the State of Illinois was enduring a full lockdown, Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois, was open for business and conducting elective abortions in a facility packed with twice the number of people allowed under COVID-19 orders issued by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. In the midst of the pandemic, on April 22, 2020, an ambulance was called to the Planned Parenthood abortion facility after something went wrong with an elective surgical abortion. According to 911 records provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, one abortion client suffered excessive bleeding (hemorrhaging) and required emergency medical transport to...

Granite City, IL – Less than six weeks after one Illinois abortion patient was hospitalized after a botched abortion, a second woman required immediate transport to a hospital emergency room after suffering a serious abortion-related medical emergency. But this recent incident took an unusual twist. It began on May 7, 2020, at Hope Clinic for Women, a late-term abortion facility located in Granite City, Illinois. An ambulance was called for a 34-year old woman who suffered a seizure during a surgical abortion and needed a transfer to Barnes Jewish Hospital’s Emergency Department for a “higher level of care,” according to...

Flossmoor, IL – Two ambulances were called to the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Flossmoor, Illinois, on consecutive days for women who were injured by botched abortions. During the first incident, which took place on May 7, 2020, a private ambulance was called. Video provided to Operation Rescue by a local pro-life activist showed a woman on a gurney as she was removed from Planned Parenthood’s rear entrance. She was loaded into an ambulance from Bud’s Ambulance Services. Because this company is private and was likely directly called, no 911 records were available. Bud’s Ambulance Service is located in Dalton,...

Jacksonville, FL – An ambulance was called to the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Jacksonville, Florida, on April 9, 2020, to help a woman who was suffering an abortion-related medical emergency during a busy day of COVID-19 panic abortions. The woman entered Planned Parenthood at 10:00 a.m., but was wheeled out on a gurney two hours and forty minutes later. She was transported to a local hospital for emergency care that the abortion facility could not provide. One local pro-life activist told Operation Rescue that the Jacksonville Planned Parenthood was especially busy that week, despite the fact that state and...

Cherry Hill, NJ – A woman choked on her own vomit during a surgical abortion at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and required emergency transport to the Cooper Medical Center for suspected aspiration pneumonia. This occurred on May 2, 2020, during a serious COVID-19 outbreak when elective abortions were banned due to a strain on medical resources. Abortions in New Jersey were exempted from the ban. After the vomiting episode during the abortion, the 35-year old woman suffered a drop in her oxygen levels. Once the abortion was completed, she was placed in a recovery...

New York, NY – While New York City was still in the throes of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, two ambulances responded to a medical emergency at the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood on Friday, April 24, 2020. Video provided to Operation Rescue by a local pro-life activist showed a New York Fire Department ambulance on standby while emergency responders from both ambulance crews loaded the woman into a Mount Sinai Hospital ambulance for transport. The woman appeared to be awake, but in a fair amount of distress. At the time of the emergency, New York City was enduring a lockdown...

Annapolis, Maryland — A woman was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital emergency room after suffering chest pains with sweats at the Annapolis Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Annapolis, Maryland. An ambulance crew and fire unit were dispatched to render aid on February 24, 2020. The incident was classified as a “Priority 2” emergency, which signifies a serious, but not immediately life-threatening condition. A heavily redacted Computer Aided Dispatch printout (CAD) confirmed details about the emergency response. Operation Rescue’s request for the audio recording of the call was denied by Ann Arundel County authorities. The Annapolis Planned Parenthood failed...

New Orleans, LA – A medical emergency occurred at the Women’s Health Center abortion facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, yesterday, despite efforts by State Attorney General Jeff Landry to enforce an order that should have shut down Louisiana’s abortion businesses due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The emergency, which occurred on April 21, 2020, was located in the midst of an area where a major COVID-19 outbreak has occurred. In a photo provided to Operation Rescue by a local pro-life activist, an African-American woman was seen fully clothed on a gurney with arms up as if she was in distress. A...

Chicago, IL – Two hours after having a surgical abortion at the Family Planning Associates (FPA) abortion facility on Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, a woman suffered a heart-related medical emergency was rushed by ambulance to Northwestern Hospital on the evening of March 6, 2020. The 911 records, provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, painted a dire picture of the woman’s condition. The FPA caller described the woman as 23 years old, who had completed an “outpatient surgery” at around 5:30 p.m. She was tachycardic, meaning her heart rate was accelerated. Tachycardia can be cause by a...

Wichita, KS – While churches remained closed on Palm Sunday in fear of the Coronavirus, Trust Women Wichita was open for business, conducting approximately 40 abortions – one of which led to a medical emergency that required a woman to be transported by ambulance to Wesley Medical Center for care the abortion business was incapable of providing. Trust Women is the same facility involved in a decision by Sedgwick County Commissioners, who voted 4-1 last week to recommend it halt abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioners cited heavy traffic from out of state that increases the chances of spreading the...

Granite City, IL – It was a weekend characterized by stay-at-home orders, hand-washing decrees, social distancing, and limits on groups to under ten people, but at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, those rules that all Americans were expected to follow, were blatantly ignored. At that abortion facility, it was a weekend to pack in the women like sardines so they could be herded through the clinic for abortions. It was in a very real sense, a germ-sharing party in progress. License plates reflected a booming interstate commerce, with cars coming from six different states, in violation...

In a surprising move, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon vetoed a bill to require basic medical care for newborn babies who survive abortions. Gordon, a Republican who says he is pro-life, claimed the bill is unnecessary, KPVI News 6 reports. “Laws already in place protect children from being denied life-saving care simply because they were born as a result of an abortion,” he said in his veto statement. Senate File 97, sponsored by Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, R-Lingle, requires abortionists to “take medically appropriate and reasonable steps to preserve the life and health of an infant born alive” from an abortion. Abortionists...

Pensacola, FL – A disturbing incident at one of Florida’s most notorious abortion facilities highlights the dangers women face, especially when the abortionist flies in from another community to conduct the procedures. Dr. Tom Messe, a pro-life activist, was at the American Family Planning abortion facility in Pensacola, Florida, on Sunday, March 15, 2020, to offer assistance to pregnant women. He and about ten other pro-life activists witnessed events as they transpired. “A young black woman staggered out the clinic via the back door — the door they never use for patients. They were trying to conceal her illness from...

Riverside, CA – In a heartbreaking scene, a woman was taken from the Planned Parenthood abortion facility by gurney on March 6, 2020, and loaded into an ambulance for transport. Once she was inside the ambulance, a man holding the hand of a small boy, who appeared to be the family of the injured woman, were escorted over to the ambulance by what appeared to be a Planned Parenthood security guard for instructions. The family then followed the ambulance by private vehicle as it left the Planned Parenthood parking lot. The ambulance ran without sirens. It is common for abortion...

Bronx, NY – Over six months after first making a request for public 911 records related to an August 17, 2019, medical emergency at an abortion facility located in Bronx, New York, Operation Rescue finally received a recording of the call and the computer aided dispatch transcript from the New York Fire Department that revealed the nature of the emergency. The recording of the original call placed from Dr. Emily’s Women’s Health Center was disturbing. The caller seemed unprepared for even basic questions that are commonly asked by 911 dispatchers. That caused a delay in dispatching units. The caller was...

New York, NY – A woman on an ambulance gurney who appeared to have been visibly pregnant, was wheeled out of the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Manhattan, New York, to an awaiting New York Fire Department ambulance. The incident happened on February 7, 2020, at approximately 10:10 a.m. The woman, whose head was wrapped with a sheet, was strapped to the gurney in the semi-seated position. A gauze secured with tape could been seen on the inside of her left arm that appeared to attached to an IV bag above her shoulder. An orange gurney strap accentuated...

All great human rights efforts of every era have been anchored in the stories and faces of their victims and survivors, giving them meaning outside of an abstract concept, and awakening the human mind to truth through the voices of survival. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. literally “gave face” to the Civil Rights movement; Elie Wiesel humanized the inhumanity of Auschwitz in a way that could no longer be ignored. The list of “faces” is exhaustive. When a victim – a survivor – stares you in the eye and tells you their story, a paradigm shift takes...

Baltimore, MD — In a scene that has been replicated thousands of times at abortion facilities across America, an ambulance and fire unit responded to a 911 call for help on December 18, 2019, when a woman who had undergone an abortion experienced “possibly dangerous” hemorrhage. This incident took place at the Baltimore Health Center Planned Parenthood, located near downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Heavily redacted 911 records, including a recording and CAD printout, supplied to Operation Rescue by the pro-life organization Defend Life, revealed little about the emergency, except that the call was placed by a Planned Parenthood worker going by...

Flossmoor, IL – Newly acquired 911 records show that an ambulance was called to the Flossmoor Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Flossmoor, Illinois, on November 12, 2019, to assist with and transport a woman who was hemorrhaging. The heavily redacted 911 recordings and Computer Aided Dispatch transcript (CAD), were provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, located in Chicago, Illinois. The call was placed though a Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) to call the Intrado Emergency Call Relay Center, which, in turn, placed the call to the 911 exchange. It took a minute and a half for the...

Attleboro, MA – When an abortion patient hemorrhaged during an abortion at Four Women Health Services, an abortion facility in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on October 5, 2019, it wasn’t until she had lost two liters of blood that an ambulance was called. The human body holds a total of 5-6 liters of blood. A loss of two liters — over a half gallon — would cause the patient’s heart to race, her blood pressure to drop, and would result in her slipping of consciousness. Without elaborating, the caller sternly told the dispatcher, “This is an emergency. I need you to come...