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Operation Rescue to Demand Justice, Filing Complaints With Medical Board FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fort Collins, CO – Operation Rescue has launched a full investigation into the death of Alexis “Lexi” Arguello, an 18-year-old Colorado girl who died from abortion complications on February 6, after delayed emergency transport from the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood. “Our team has been gathering information on this death for weeks, slowly piecing together exactly what happened,” said Sarah Neely, Chief Operating Officer of Operation Rescue. “On March 12, however, testimony during a hearing with the Colorado Committee of Health and Human Services confirmed everything we have...

FULL TITLE: Marie Stopes doctor and nurses 'bungled woman's abortion then sent her home despite symptoms of internal bleeding that killed her just hours later' A doctor and two nurses appeared in court today charged with the manslaughter of a pregnant woman who died from massive blood loss following a bungled abortion. Aisha Chithira, 32, had travelled from Dublin to a west London branch of the Marie Stopes clinic for the procedure on January 21, 2012 and collapsed hours later in a taxi in Slough, Berkshire. The cause of her death was given as 'extensive internal bleeding' following the abortion,...

GERMANTOWN, MD, February 8, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 29-year old woman died yesterday as the result of fatal complications suffered during an abortion at 33 weeks performed by LeRoy Carhart at Germantown Reproductive Health Center (GRHC) in Germantown, Maryland. According to the pro-life organization Operation Rescue, the information about the incident comes from an extremely credible anonymous source. The woman, who came for a third trimester abortion from out-of-state, arrived at GRHC on Sunday and was seen by pro-life activists every day through Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said she appeared "pale and weak." Early Thursday morning, the woman began suffering chest pains...

A leading pro-life group has obtained a copy of Tonya Reaves’ autopsy report that it says shows beyond a doubt that the 24-year old woman died from three major complications during a botched second-trimester abortion suffered at a Chicago area Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on July 20, 2012. Operation Rescue, which obtained the full autopsy results late yesterday, says it indicates that Reaves’ injuries were survivable if she had received proper emergency care in a timely manner. The autopsy report is seven pages in length but it took two months for it to be released publicly, despite requests from OR...

Democrats care so little about minority women that they allow unlicensed facilities to kill them. The old civil rights leaders will protest when someone shoots a black man but do nothing when a doctor in an unlicensed health facility kills a black woman. Nothing better demonstrates the hypocrisy of President Barack Obama than the fact that unlicensed medical facilities are allowed to [mis]treat women in his hometown of Chicago. When a black man dies a violent death black leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton descend on the location and ask for an investigation while sometimes alleging that...

Woman Dies From Botched Abortion at Marie Stopes Clinic London, England -- As the Marie Stopes International abortion business begins running abortion ads on television in England tonight, news surfaces that a woman in India died from a botched legal abortion at an MSI abortion center. She is one of several women to have died recently in India from failed abortions. http://LifeNews.com/int1552.html

Charlotte, NC (LifeNews.com) -- A legal abortion on a woman at a Charlotte, North Carolina abortion center may have clamed her life. Local pro-life advocates shot video footage of an ambulance taking a woman from the A Preferred Women's Health Center abortion facility on Sunday. The video shows a woman taken on a gurney from the abortion center to a waiting ambulance.However, she was completely covered from head to toe with no sign of movement and the man who took the video says this is different than women other women who have suffered from botched abortions have been transported to...

Practitioner Who Killed Woman in Botched Legal Abortion Faces Hearing Hyannis, MA -- Abortion practitioner Rapin Osathanondh, who has been charged with manslaughter after killing one of his patients in a botched legal abortion, faces a Friday hearing. Osathanondh did the abortion on 22-year-old Laura Smith, who died in September 2007 at his Women's Health Center abortion business. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4449.html

Hyannis, MA – The abortion death of Laura Hope Smith has finally been reported Sunday — five weeks late — in a secular newspaper, The Cape Cod Times. The story of this tragic abortion death was also reported last week in the National Catholic Register. Laura’s mother, Eileen Smith, has been working tirelessly to see to it that her daughter’s death is not “swept under the rug,” and that those responsible for it are brought to justice. Smith’s attorney filed a Complaint for Discovery on October 4, for information from the Medical Examiner’s office, the hospital, the abortion clinic, and...

 Whose fault is it when aborting women die? It depends, according to abortion proponents. If the abortion was illegal, we are. If the abortion was legal, she is. Cases in point, yesteryear's illegal abortion of Gerri Santoro and this year's legal abortion of Edrica Goode. You've likely seen the haunting, iconic photo of Gerri Santoro, dead, naked, knees to chest with bloody bottom in the air on a hotel room floor, the result of an illegal abortion in 1964 at age 27. How did Santoro get there? At six and a half months pregnant by a married man, Santoro apparently...

Riverside, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The mother of a woman who died after an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in this city east of Los Angles has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the abortion business. The lawsuit contends that Planned Parenthood officials gave 21 year-old Edrica Goode poor medical care prior to the abortion that claimed her life. Goode went to the Planned Parenthood abortion center on January 31 pregnant and with a vaginal infection. Despite the infection, the lawsuit says staff at the abortion center inserted cervical dilators to prepare her for a second-trimester abortion.The lawsuit says the dilators,...

The mother of a Riverside woman who died of toxic shock syndrome after allegedly undergoing an abortion procedure at Planned Parenthood filed a malpractice suit against the charity and a Riverside hospital this week. The lawsuit alleges that Edrica Goode, 21, went to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Riverside for an abortion on Jan. 31 and that a nurse inserted cervical dilators, meant to prepare patients for the abortion process, despite the fact that Goode had a vaginal infection. The dilators, which are shaped like small sticks and consist primarily of seaweed, became a conduit that spread the infection to...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A person who was a member of the Kansas grand jury that investigated the abortion death of a disabled Texas teenager has told a pro-life group about what happened during the investigation. The source revealed the bizarre chain of events that led up to the death of Christin Gilbert.Gilbert was killed in a failed late-term abortion in January 2005 at the abortion facility of George Tiller, one of the few abortion practitioners in the country to still do abortions in the very late stages of pregnancy.After Gilbert's death, a complaint was filed with the Kansas State...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The National Organization for Women issued a statement Wednesday condemning a Senate vote to approve a measure to uphold parental involvement laws on abortion. The pro-abortion group is continuing to advance an 18 year-old discredited story that claims a teenager who didn't want to tell her parents she was pregnant died from an illegal botched abortion. On Tuesday, the Senate cast an overwhelmingly bipartisan 65-37 vote in favor of the Child Custody Protection Act, much to NOW's chagrin. In its statement condemning the vote, the group says the "Republican Taliban" is putting girls like Becky Bell...

At the 50th session of the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, members of the Pro-life, Pro-family Coalition for Non-Government Organizations are distributing vital information about abortion -- information that flies in the face of the conventional leftist wisdom. More importantly, it is information that could mean the difference between life and death for women around the world who hear nothing except positive portrayals of abortion by "women's rights" advocates. In fact, women around the world hear a constant refrain that abortion is essential to "empowering" women and creating "gender equality." The counterbalancing information about abortion and its negative...

(AgapePress) - Several new studies reveal an unprecedented accuracy in linking women's medical records to their death certificates when comparing abortion and childbirth mortality rates. Such findings could possibly change the application of the 33-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling -- which legalized abortion -- while alerting medical professionals to common risk factors associated with abortion and death.One of the studies, which is part of a series, was completed by researchers from the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health in Finland. Its findings disputed the age-old presumption that abortion is linked to fewer deaths than is childbirth...

Abortion advocates made the argument to legalize abortion in the United States and they make the same one to topple pro-life laws in other nations: making abortion illegal will increase women's deaths. However, a new report from the United Nations indicates that's just not so. According to new figures from the United Nations Populations Division, nations with laws legalizing abortion have not seen a corresponding drop in the rate of maternal deaths. They do not experience lower rates of maternal mortality compared to nation's that have made abortions illegal. The information is found in the "World Mortality Report: 2005" which...

While the thoughts of the nation are focused on the subject of abortion through the Samuel Alito Senate Confirmation hearings and anticipation of the upcoming 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, an effort has been launched that will force a Kansas county to convene a Grand Jury to investigate alleged criminal acts that led to the abortion death of a Down Syndrome teenager last year. The victim, Christin A. Gilbert, died from complications to a third-trimester abortion received at George R. Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas, the site of over 2,000 arrests during Operation Rescue’s “Summer of...

The controversial RU-486 abortion pill, which 18-year-old Holly Patterson of Livermore took a week before dying of a massive infection in September 2003, would be at least temporarily pulled from U.S. markets under federal legislation reintroduced last week. Republican lawmakers have reintroduced "Holly's Law," which would suspend Food and Drug Administration approval of RU-486 until the federal Government Accountability Office scrutinizes the process by which the drug came to U.S. markets in 2000. Backers of Holly's Law contend RU-486 was approved by the FDA under political pressure from the Clinton administration under a "fast-track" review process normally reserved for drugs...

When ephedrine was believed to be the cause of death for several athletes, notably Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steven Bechler, the government’s response was swift and effective: The FDA banned it in February of 2004. When it comes to abortion, there is always a different set of rules. Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, has been linked to the deaths of three women and six hundred complications since the FDA approved its sale and distribution in the United States in 2000 in the waning months of the Clinton Administration. Ignoring the usual standards for the approval of a questionable drug, the FDA...