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As we start the new year, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has released their annual report on abortion and, once again, it shows more abortions, more complications from abortion, and more problems that Pennsylvania needs to correct. In 2022, there were 34,838 abortions reported in Pennsylvania, the highest number of annual abortions in the last ten years. Here are some takeaways from this latest state report: 1. Over 95 abortions every day in PA in 2022. Over the last five years, nearly 5,000 more babies have been aborted annually (2017: 30,011 | 2022: 34,838). Of note, the 2022 total is...

A video from a YouTube account called “Ivan the Evangelist” was shared by Students for Life America on social media Thursday afternoon and detailed one woman’s horrific experience after taking an abortion pill. Now, users online are blasting Planned Parenthood and the chemical abortion process for its prioritization of killing babies over keeping women out of harms way. “The last abortion I had I actually saw the baby come out,” Desiree, the woman in the video started with. She explained how she went to a Planned Parenthood location and two doctors came into her room and gave her a chemical...

On Wednesday, October 25th, Womens Med Dayton, Dayton’s remaining abortion facility, had another ambulance call to 911. The patient was a 33-year old female experiencing bleeding from a “complicated procedure.” This facility performs approximately 61 abortions every week in Montgomery County, according the 2022 annual Ohio Abortion Report. You can hear the 911 call here. This facility has a long history of 911 calls for “transportation to Miami Valley Hospital.” The facility was cited in 2015 for providing services without proper consent. This call is another example of lack of best practices by this facility. In early October, the Ohio...

A hard-hitting new commercial opposing Issue 1 in Ohio exposes how “safe, legal” abortions are killing women. Pro-abortion advocates are lying in their campaign ads telling voters that Ohio’s Issue 1 will protect “women’s lives.” These ads are filled with propaganda “that doctors need to be able to make life-saving decisions that protect their patients.” In response, Created Equal’s new media buy features a TV ad that debunks these lies by revealing how unregulated abortion isn’t safe for women or children. Video Player VIDEO ON LINK 00:00 00:30 The fact is, if Issue 1 passes, all restrictions and regulations protecting...

Spanish language media reported last Sunday that radical pro-abortion supporter Maria de Valle Gonzalez Lopez died during what she labeled her “dream” abortion operation. She was 23 years old and was the leader of the Radical Youth in the La Paz municipality in the province of Mendoza. Her death has sparked a fierce debate about abortion in Argentina and led for calls for women to know that the procedure can sometimes carry serious risks. On April 11, the woman underwent a legal abortion procedure in a local hospital. The operation turned out to be fatal for her. This fact came...

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, March 31, 2021 (Operation Rescue) – A troubled Alabama abortion facility where a woman received a fatal abortion last year was cited for serious personnel and infection control violations during a four-visit inspection that took place four months after a patient died last year. April Lowery, 29, died as the result of an attempted abortion she received at Abortion center that killed woman had rusty surgical instruments the West Alabama Women’s Center (WAWC) in Tuscaloosa on May 7, 2020. During that abortion, she suffered a perforated uterus that caused internal injuries and hemorrhaging, according to her autopsy report....

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating a new report that six babies were born alive in botched abortions in 2019 in his state. Paxton’s office promised to investigate the shocking findings revealed in the new Texas Health and Human Services 2019 abortion report, which was released Dec. 23. According to the report, six babies were born alive in botched abortions in 2019 in Texas. The number is included in the part of the report that lists abortion complications reported by physicians and/or abortion facilities in Texas. “In response to today’s report noting several infants were ‘born alive’ after failed...

Austin, TX – Recently received 911 records show that a 32-year old woman suffered a serious medical emergency after an abortion at the Austin Women’s Health Center in Austin, Texas, earlier this year. The emergency, which occurred on February 22, 2020, involved post-abortion procedure hemorrhaging. “We have a patient that we performed a procedure on, and she’s having excessive bleeding that we’re not able to control – as of yet,” the caller stated, according to a recording of the 911 call. However, the caller, who was not with the patient at the time, was unsure if the woman was breathing...

Dallas, TX – A 30-year old woman suffered “excessive bleeding” so severe that it prompted a 911 call for help from the staff at Southwest Women’s Surgery Center, an abortion facility in Dallas, Texas, according to a 911 Computer Aided Dispatch printout obtained by Operation Rescue. Requests for the audio recording of the call that was placed on August 25, 2020, was denied by the City of Dallas. However, the CAD report noted that while the woman was conscious and breathing at the time of the call, she was also suffering “fever, cough, or shortness of breath.” The woman was...

The court in Hellerstedt ruled 5-3 to strike down a Texas law that required abortion-performing doctors to be authorized to admit patients at a nearby hospital. Roberts dissented on technical grounds from the majority, which said the Texas law was unconstitutional because its burden on a woman’s right to abortion outweighed any medical benefit. While Roberts’s vote was not decisive in the Texas dispute, he may hold the tie-breaking vote in the Louisiana case. What complicates matters is the fact that the Texas law that the court struck down in Hellerstedt is nearly identical to the Louisiana law now under...

Chicago, IL – An ambulance was called on April 22, 2020, for a woman who had returned to the Near North Planned Parenthood, located on North LaSalle Drive in Chicago, Illinois, for a follow-up appointment after suffering serious complications to an abortion. According to 911 records provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, the 28-year old woman was in extreme pain, which was classified as a “seven” on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most severe. The Planned Parenthood caller told the 911 dispatcher, “We have a patient here and we are concerned she may be...

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether a particular abortion regulation is permissible. The bill, written by pro-life Louisiana Democrat Katrina Jackson, seeks to require hospital admitting privileges from abortion doctors. In a little-noticed unanimous vote just days earlier, all 12 members of D.C. Council approved a wholly new legal paradigm: banning altogether any regulation that relates to reproductive healthcare. The bill, introduced by Councilmember David Grosso, awaits signing by Mayor Muriel Bowser. The Strengthening Reproductive Health Protections Amendment Act, despite its name, does not in fact alter access to abortion in D.C., where the procedure is...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its first abortion case since the confirmation of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. While outside the high court Sen. Chuck Schumer stoked the anger of abortion apologists by threatening the newest justices, inside the courtroom the lawyers representing the abortion providers cemented a new reality: that the abortion industry doesn’t want “safe, legal, and rare,”—it wants “unsafe, legally.” That reality became clear in an exchange with Justice Kavanaugh about the Louisiana law under review in June Medical Serv. v. Russo, Sec. LA Dep’t of Health. That law requires abortion providers...

Political activism in journalism is nothing new. But it is rarely so evident. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dominates in abortion case,” reads the headline to a news report this week by CNN Supreme Court reporter Ariane de Vogue. If it were just the headline, the unusually excited tone could be forgiven. But there is so, so much more. “If there is any question whether 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has spent her life steeped in issues concerning women's rights, is slowing down after four bouts of cancer, it was not evident Wednesday morning in Washington,” reads the report's opening...

The Supreme Court this morning held oral arguments on a key pro-life law that saves babies from abortion and protects women from dangerous abortions that could jeopardize their lives and health. The 2014 Louisiana law at the center of the case requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges to treat patients with emergency complications. If allowed to take effect, it could close shoddy abortion facilities that are not prepared to help patients suffering from emergency complications. But abortion activists suing in June Medical Services v. Russo (previously v. Gee) claim the law is an “undue burden” on access to...

Baltimore, MD — In a scene that has been replicated thousands of times at abortion facilities across America, an ambulance and fire unit responded to a 911 call for help on December 18, 2019, when a woman who had undergone an abortion experienced “possibly dangerous” hemorrhage. This incident took place at the Baltimore Health Center Planned Parenthood, located near downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Heavily redacted 911 records, including a recording and CAD printout, supplied to Operation Rescue by the pro-life organization Defend Life, revealed little about the emergency, except that the call was placed by a Planned Parenthood worker going by...

Attleboro, MA – When an abortion patient hemorrhaged during an abortion at Four Women Health Services, an abortion facility in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on October 5, 2019, it wasn’t until she had lost two liters of blood that an ambulance was called. The human body holds a total of 5-6 liters of blood. A loss of two liters — over a half gallon — would cause the patient’s heart to race, her blood pressure to drop, and would result in her slipping of consciousness. Without elaborating, the caller sternly told the dispatcher, “This is an emergency. I need you to come...

Flossmoor, IL – Newly acquired 911 records show that an ambulance was called to the Flossmoor Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Flossmoor, Illinois, on November 12, 2019, to assist with and transport a woman who was hemorrhaging. The heavily redacted 911 recordings and Computer Aided Dispatch transcript (CAD), were provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, located in Chicago, Illinois. The call was placed though a Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) to call the Intrado Emergency Call Relay Center, which, in turn, placed the call to the 911 exchange. It took a minute and a half for the...

When she was 21-years-old, Janice C. entered the Delta Clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, looking for help. She was pregnant but didn’t want to be, and abortion seemed like the best option — actually, the only option. The doctors made it seem like a “harmless procedure” without providing any kind of education about its effects, and 33 years later, she still doesn’t completely understand what she experienced or why she did it. All she knows is that what was supposed to be a harmless procedure “robbed” her of her “spiritual well-being” and resulted in significant physical health ailments in the...

Aurora, Illinois – An ambulance was called for a seriously injured woman at the Aurora Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Aurora, Illinois, on November 16, 2019. “We’ll need a stretcher,” a Planned Parenthood employee told the 911 dispatcher at the beginning of the 911 call recording. The recording and a brief printout related to the 911 call was provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League. The Planned Parenthood worker noted that the patient began to hemorrhage during a “procedure” – Planned Parenthood’s nomenclature for a surgical abortion – and was unconscious. It takes a blood loss of about...