An abortion facility in Carbondale, Illinois, is raising eyebrows after staff placed a 911 call to request the completion of a patient’s abortion procedure.
Operation Rescue reported that the Alamo Women’s Clinic called for an ambulance in September of 2024, and what actually happened that day is a mystery. The computer-aided dispatch (CAD) transcript was not available, so all there is to go on is the 911 audio.
At the outset, the call seemed disturbingly cavalier; both the dispatcher and the abortion facility staffer sounded nearly half-asleep. After the dispatcher asked for the location of the emergency, the staffer replied flatly, “Hey. I’m at 2800 West Main.”
The dispatcher nonchalantly asked, “What’s going on?”
Though the abortion facility has since been identified as Alamo Women’s, in the actual 911 call, the staffer did not say the name of the facility. “I’m calling from a women’s clinic,” she said. “I have a patient who needs to be transported to the hospital to finish her abortion procedure.”
Only once the staffer was connected to EMS did she disclose the name of the facility. But the rest of the audio was redacted, so there is little information about what caused the facility — which provides both chemical and surgical abortions up to 18 weeks in Illinois — to call 911 over a supposedly incomplete abortion.
Retained fetal tissue can be a life-threatening abortion complication, but it’s difficult to tell why the facility felt it necessary to send the patient to the emergency room. In the case of an incomplete chemical abortion, for example, an abortion facility that commits surgical abortions is typically equipped to follow up the abortion pill regimen with a surgical procedure, like a dilation and curettage (D&C) abortion, or suction aspiration abortion, to remove the remainder of the preborn baby. However, if a woman is suffering from a potentially serious complication such as hemorrhaging, this could necessitate an ambulance transport.
The charge listed on Alamo’s website is $600 for an abortion before 12 weeks of pregnancy, regardless of whether it’s a chemical or a surgical abortion. The site does not disclose what is charged for abortions in the second or third trimesters.
According to the Alamo Women’s Clinic’s website, Alamo currently has two sister facilities, both owned by abortionist Alan Braid who runs the facilities with his daughter, clinic manager Andrea Gallegos. The facility in Illinois commits abortions to 18 weeks, and the one in Albuquerque, New Mexico, offers abortions through 32 weeks of pregnancy. The latter facility used to be Southwestern Women’s Options, an abortion facility owned by Curtis Boyd — where abortionists were responsible for the death of at least one woman. Braid purchased the facility from Boyd sometime around March of 2024.
Braid, an abortionist who has been in practice since the 1970s, likes to portray himself as a savior figure for women. Alamo is one of many abortion organizations which has attempted to encourage minors from pro-life states to visit their facilities.
Braid moved his deadly business out of Texas and into New Mexico and Illinois after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, solely so he could continue committing abortions. Before Roe fell, however, Braid was openly breaking Texas law, committing illegal abortions even after the Texas Heartbeat Act was in place.
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