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| Ambulance outside HCW receiving post-abortion patient for emergency transport photo via Operation Rescue |
The emergencies were reported by pro-life onlookers to
Operation Rescue, a pro-life organization dedicated to documenting medical emergencies at
abortion businesses throughout the country. During the past several months,
Illinois abortion businesses have garnered the overwhelming majority of
emergency reports on Operation Rescue's website.
Details from emergencies at Illinois abortion businesses have become more
difficult for Operation Rescue to obtain. Abortion clinics are careful about
what they say to 911 operators to prevent information about abortion injuries
from reaching the public, and local governments are less cooperative with FOIA
requests for dispatch reports.
Operation Rescue was able to obtain 911 call recordings for the three
emergencies taking place on November 3, 7, and 9.
Click here to listen to those recordings.
On November 3, an HCW employee called 911 to report that a 35-year-old woman
was "possibly" having "a seizure." The worker requested an ambulance to
transport the patient to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri "for
observation." Barnes is a level 1 trauma center where HCW frequently sends
seriously injured patients.
Operation Rescue suggested that the seizures could have been caused by
incorrect administration of anesthesia or bleeding from uterine perforation.
The emergency on November 7 involved a 40-year-old patient. The HCW employee
who called 911 told the dispatcher that she had "some extra bleeding" after a
"procedure." The employee again requested an ambulance to transport the
patient to Barnes's emergency room.
"Extra bleeding" after an abortion could only be defined as hemorrhage. The
most frequent cause of hemorrhage after an abortion would be uterine
perforation. In addition to hemorrhage (which is life-threatening on its own),
uterine perforation can lead to serious infection.
The November 9 emergency is the most ambiguous of the three. An HCW employee
called 911 to request an ambulance to transfer a 21-year-old patient to
Barnes. The employee said that the patient was "post-procedure" with stable
vital signs, but she needed to to Barnes for "further evaluation."
When the 911 dispatcher asked if they needed any special equipment, the
employee requested ACLS, otherwise known as Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
This equipment is used when a patient is at risk of cardiac arrest.
It is not known whether these patients survived or if they sustained life-long
injuries such as infertility.
“We hope that through our work people, many see the myth of ‘safe
abortion’ for what it is: a lie invented by people who make huge profits out
of killing innocent lives and maiming women,” said Operation Rescue’s
President, Troy Newman.
In this dreadful process the Abortion Cartel calls ‘healthcare,’
unsuspecting women are hurt and some of them even die. We pray that one day
every state in our nation may see through these lies, and save women and
their babies from such horror and pain.”