A woman was transported by ambulance after a botched abortion in July at a well-known Kansas abortion facility.
Operation Rescue reports that Trust Women in Wichita, Kansas, called 911 on July 14th when a woman hemorrhaged uncontrollably after a second-trimester abortion. The woman had allegedly traveled to the abortion facility from out of state.
According to the Call for Service Detail Report, she was suffering lacerations and a “POSSIBLY DANGEROUS hemorrhage” (emphasis original).
In the 911 call, the patient’s age was redacted, and the facility was referred to as the “South Wind Clinic” (the facility’s former name) by the dispatcher before the staffer explained the emergency. “We have a [redacted]-year-old patient, post-procedural hemorrhage… um, she’s no longer pregnant,” the staffer said. “But is just having some bleeding that we can’t get under control, so we are asking for a hospital transfer.”
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The patient was said to be awake and breathing, and the staff used medication and “devices” to control the bleeding while they waited for paramedics. Operation Rescue said they were able to learn the woman had traveled over 350 miles for the abortion, but ended up at Wesley Healthcare, where she had to stay for several days and received at least one blood transfusion.
Trust Women Wichita is located in the same building where late-term abortionist George Tiller worked, before he was murdered outside his church in 2009. The facility was responsible for a number of botched abortions last year, each involving hemorrhaging. Meanwhile, Kansas does not require abortion facilities to be licensed or inspected, so there is essentially no oversight into the abortion industry by state officials.
“This emergency is particularly heart-wrenching for us at Operation Rescue because this poor woman was butchered right here in Wichita, just a seven-minute drive from our national headquarters,” Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said in a statement. “It has been painful to watch as abortion numbers in Kansas have increased by 76% – more than any other state – in the last year. This is just one example of how innocent babies and their mothers are paying the price.”
