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| Family Planning Associates abortion clinic in Chicago photo credit: Operation Rescue |
The woman was in severe pain ever since the first surgical abortion procedure
on Jan 22, so she returned to the Family Planning Associates (FPA) for a
follow-up. The FPA facility determined that the abortionist had left parts of
the baby inside her, so she had a second procedure on Jan 27.
During a surgical abortion, otherwise known as a Dilation and Curettage
(D&C) abortion, the preborn child is torn apart and pulled out through the
woman's cervix piece by piece. Metal tools reach into the woman's uterus after
her cervix is expanded, and individual body parts are ripped from the child
until the entire body has been removed from the womb. During these abortions,
the child dies by bleeding out. Complications can arise for the mother if a
part of the child's body is left behind, or if the woman's uterus is torn by
the metal instruments used to rip the child's body apart.
After her second procedure, FPA staff told the woman to return to the facility
the next day if her pain did not subside. An hour later, after she had left
the FPA facility, she was in significant pain and she wanted to go to the
emergency room. A 911 operator denied her this request; telling her that she
needed to listen to the abortionists. He suggested that her pain medication
had not kicked in yet, but there was no way for him to know that she wasn't
suffering from another complication, such as uterine perforation.
You can listen to a recording of the 911 call by
clicking here.
"Okay, ma’am. You’ve just got to follow their instructions," the 911
operator said. "I mean, they’re doctors. They can probably tell you the same
thing you’ll see when you go to the hospital. So, it’s basically almost
the same thing. They’re doctors. You’ve just got to follow
up. You’ve got to let the medicine work."
Strangely, he adds in a later comment, "If you go to the emergency room, it’s
the same doctor so they’re probably going to tell you the same thing."
It is unclear what the operator meant. The doctors she would see at the
hospital would absolutely be different people than the staffers at the FPA
clinic. It is unknown what happened to the woman who called 911.
