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Ambulance responding to a medical emergency at Hope Clinic for Women on October 12, 2022 photo credit: Operation Rescue |
Pro-life onlookers reported the incident to
Operation Rescue, which investigated further.
An employee from HCW called 911 to request an ambulance to transport a
patient experiencing complications from an abortion. The employee told the
911 dispatcher that the patient required a "higher level of care" and asked
that an ambulance transport the patient to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St.
Louis, Missouri. According to the
Call for service Detail Report, the emergency was coded as "high" priority.
The 911 call was unusually brief. This dispatcher did not ask nearly as many
questions about the condition of the patient as one usually does, which is
odd given the high-priority designation.
40 Days for Life volunteers noted that the woman appeared to be "very
late-term." HCW commits abortions up to 24 weeks gestation. At that stage, a
child can survive outside a mother's womb with proper medical care.
“This clinic has been on our radar for a long time as an extremely
dangerous, late-term abortion business,” said Troy Newman, President of
Operation Rescue. “With [HCW-owner] Julie Burkhart at the helm, we expect to
see an increase in killing.”