The plaintiff in a botched abortion lawsuit described her horror after she allegedly delivered her partially aborted baby in the bathroom of her home. She stated that, horrifyingly, the child’s “lower extremities” had been “sucked off.” The disturbing allegation was included in unsealed documents from the June Medical Services LLC v. Russo lawsuit.
What is June Medical LLC v Russo?
In 2014, Louisiana enacted its Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, requiring abortionists to hold admitting privileges with a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion business. But on August 22, 2014 — just prior to when the Act was to become effective (September 14, 2014) — Bossier Medical Suite, Causeway Clinic, Hope Medical Group for Women, and two abortion doctors known as Doe 1 and Doe 24 (collectively “June Medical”) sued to enjoin the Act, claiming that it placed an undue burden on women’s access to abortions.
Later, the district court took the unusual step of placing the names of the abortionists under seal — even though their identities were well known and as a result the Court referred to them (some male and some female) only by their court appointed pseudonyms (Doe 1 through Doe 6).
The case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the law was struck down in a 5 to 4 ruling.
Rep. Katrina Jackson, who originally authored the pro-life law, called the ruling “alarming,” and claimed in an op-ed, that “one of our state’s primary abortion clinics, Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge, had a decades-long history of unsanitary conditions and substandard medical care that most recently led to a woman requiring a full hysterectomy following an incomplete abortion. The clinic did not even have IV fluids on hand, and due to their negligence, upon arrival at the hospital the patient needed four units of blood over the course of three days.”
Documents Ordered Unsealed
The court sealed the names of the abortionists and abortion providers in the case also sought to keep several other documents sealed.
The State of Louisiana sued to open all the records in the June Medical case to the public, and after the ensuing legal battle, in January of 2021, multiple documents in the case were ordered unsealed by a federal court order.
According to a release published by the Office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who fought for more open access in the case, “While granting access to numerous documents in June Medical Services, LLC V.s Phillips, the court noted that much of what the abortion providers sought to keep sealed was ‘an abuse of this process.’”
“Now the public may be able to see the full record in cases where abortion providers are seeking to minimize regulation against a backdrop of documented health and safety violations, destruction of medical records, and medical malpractice,” AG Landry stated at the time.
Woman Delivered Partially Aborted Child in Home Bathroom
One of the unsealed documents in the case, referred to as “Exhibit 24 – Medical Malpractice Petition,” included the disturbing account of an abortion client who saw her partially aborted child after she delivered the baby in her bathroom.
The woman’s private physician had estimated her pregnancy at approximately three and a half months, the document claimed. The abortion client alleged that Hope Medical Group for Women abortion facility never informed her of the development of her preborn child at that stage but instead referred to the baby as “fetal tissue.”
According to the allegations, after the clinic conducted an ultrasound, the client was “taken to a back room and was given something to make her drowsy. Then a very painful vacuum abortion was performed.”
Following the abortion procedure, the woman was placed in the recovery area and was later sent home.
But, according to the abortion client’s allegations, while in her own bathroom at home, she “passed a fully developed baby, whose head, body, and even fingers were well formed; only the lower extremities had been sucked off.”
The horror of seeing her own preborn baby like this caused the abortion client to become “hysterical” and scream for her husband to come to the bathroom. There, the document states, “Upon seeing the baby he became very upset and they both cried.” The woman “preserved the fetus in a jar with water” and took the dead baby to the abortion facility where she underwent a second aspiration procedure.
Although the case is from 1986, the reality of the truth that abortion intentionally kills preborn babies could not be more real. Even today, women taking the abortion pill are testifying to the gruesome and emotional sight of seeing their dead babies in the toilets of their home bathrooms.
Hope Medical abortion lawsuit partially aborted baby limbs missing
Large Amounts of Blood
Additional records included in the unsealed documents referred to as “Ex. 23 – Medical Malpractice Petition” involved a 25-year-old patient of Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, who presented for an abortion at 20 weeks pregnant for a dismemberment D&E abortion.
“After the procedure she was feeling “ill, weak, and dizzy” while “large amounts of blood” were hemorrhaging from her vagina, the document claimed. She became “extremely sick, vomited and blacked out,” but “no action was taken,” the abortion client alleged.
After a time, the woman’s husband was taken back to see his wife, who was “unconscious” and “laying on her side in a fetal position” in the back of the abortion facility. Instead of calling an ambulance, staff at the abortion facility allegedly told the woman’s husband he would have to carry his unconscious wife to the hospital. Abortion staff then reportedly helped the husband to load his wife’s “unconscious, limp and hemorrhaging body” into the back of his truck.
At the hospital, doctors performed emergency surgery for a punctured uterus, and according to the document found “there had been a hole knocked through the uterus which tore arteries and veins.”
The abortion client then had to undergo a complete hysterectomy.
That abortion was committed by “Dr. Doe 2,” the unsealed documents claimed. He was described in a separate document in the case as admitting “[d]uring a deposition in March 2019… to failing to report the forcible rape of a fourteen-year-old girl, performing an abortion on a minor without parental consent or judicial bypass, and failing to maintain medical records. Louisiana alleged that Doe 2 admitted to multiple violations of Louisiana law… and also that Doe 2 stated that Doe 5 had violated the standard of care for second trimester abortions.”
