Pro-life groups are calling for an investigation into the death of a woman who just underwent an abortion procedure at a Chicago Planned Parenthood.
Tonya Reaves, 24, the mother of a one-year-old son, recently visited the Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood clinic to abort her latest child. But Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue tells OneNewsNow there were complications, resulting in Reaves being rushed to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
"She died later that evening of hemorrhage related to a D&E (dilation and evacuation) abortion," the pro-lifer reports. "They did the autopsy the following day, and they confirmed that this was an abortion-related death."
A D&E procedure, done in the second trimester of a pregnancy, involves dismembering the baby to remove him/her from the womb. Reaves' family members are demanding answers -- none of which, according to Operation Rescue, are coming from Planned Parenthood.
"We believe this is most likely an error on the part of the abortionist, because women do not hemorrhage to death unless there has been some misadventure during the abortion, and if there's a delay in calling 9-1-1," Sullenger asserts. "We know that she was finally pronounced dead at 11:20 pm."
She goes on to add that "abortion deaths like this are completely avoidable," and Planned Parenthood should be held accountable.
Aside from the fact that an ambulance was called to a Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois, and did not transport a patient, no further information has been made available.
Ann Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League wonders if this and another case will be investigated. (Listen to audio report)
She tells OneNewsNow there are two different types of abortion clinic in The Prairie State. The first is "pregnancy termination specialty centers, which don't have to meet the same standards as an ordinary ambulatory surgical center," Scheidler explains. "And then we have the ambulatory surgical centers that meet higher standards, closer to what a hospital would have to meet."
But Planned Parenthood does not fit in either category, "because they claim that a very tiny percentage of their business is abortion, which is only true if you counted in a peculiar way which only Planned Parenthood can figure out," the League vice president details. "So they don't ever get inspected."
That, according to Scheidler, puts any woman seeking an abortion at an Illinois Planned Parenthood at risk. But she asserts that the Pro-Life Action League will again be at the legislature's doorstep pressing for a change in current laws to require the regular inspection of Planned Parenthood facilities.
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Source: OneNewsNow
