SHOCKING: ACOG 'maternal health' lecturer left half an aborted baby inside a patient

For its Maternal Health Awareness Day webinar on January 23, the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) somehow thought it would be a good idea to feature as a guest speaker an abortionist who nearly killed an abortion patient in 2023 by leaving half of her aborted baby's body inside her.

Key Takeaways:

• ACOG announced a webinar for Maternal Health Awareness Day, which took place on January 23. Illinois abortionist Keith Reisinger-Kindle was a guest speaker, chosen specifically due to his work as an abortionist.

• Reisinger-Kindle was fined and reprimanded by the Illinois state medical board for seriously injuring a patient in 2023 by perforating her uterus and leaving half of her aborted child's remains inside her uterus. A surgeon who cared for her in the ER said it was 'the worst thing' he had ever seen at surgery.

• Reisinger-Kindle, who still operates an abortion business in central Illinois, was fined $5,000, received disciplinary action, and was required to take 20 hours of continuing medical education (CME).

• The injured woman filed a lawsuit against him, and he responded by asking the court to strip her of anonymity in the suit and require her to be identified by name.

The Details:

ACOG held a webinar, "Holding Ground on Maternal Health," on January 23, observing Maternal Health Awareness Day. The webinar's keynote speaker was Dr. Amutah-Onukagha, who has focused on Black maternal health but also promotes abortion, fitting in with the overall pro-abortion focus and bias at ACOG.

Along with Dr. Amutah-Onukagha, ACOG invited abortionist Keith Reisinger-Kindle as a guest speaker, who currently operates a clinic in central Illinois. Reisinger-Kindle previously told the Chicago Sun-Times that he became a doctor specifically so he could commit abortions.

But the fact that he was invited to speak on a maternal health webinar after his own actions nearly killed a mother is shocking.

Brushed her off

Reisinger-Kindle is not your garden-variety abortionist. He began his career working at the scandal-ridden Women’s Med Center in Dayton, Ohio, alongside abortionist Martin Haskell, pioneer of the gruesome D&X (“partial-birth”) abortion. Women's Med Center has a long history of injuring women.

After leaving Ohio, Reisinger-Kindle signed on to serve as the main abortionist at the Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois, which opened after a crowdfunding campaign and commits abortions up to 26 weeks of pregnancy.

Most notably, Reisinger-Kindle appears to have followed in his predecessor's footsteps, having seriously injured a patient in April 2023 who then filed a lawsuit against him. The Indiana woman, who traveled to Illinois for a second-trimester abortion, was between 22 and 23 weeks pregnant — a point at which premature babies have been able to survive outside of the womb — and said she had been "pressured" toward choosing abortion.

The woman, who chose to remain anonymous in the lawsuit, did go through with the abortion, and claims Reisinger-Kindle botched the procedure. He committed a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, which is typically a multi-day procedure in which the abortionist dismembers the baby limb by limb, though some abortionists attempt same-day D&Es.

Afterward, the woman was in excruciating pain, and when she repeatedly called Reisinger-Kindle begging for help, he reportedly brushed her off, telling her to take Tylenol and laxatives.

“I didn’t agree with that,” she said. “It was not supposed to be that bad.”

"Worst thing I've ever seen"

Instead of following his advice, she went to the hospital. There, emergency personnel learned the abortionist had left over half of the baby’s body inside her. He had also perforated (punctured) her uterus. According to the incredibly disturbing expert witness report:

The patient was found to have half of a deceased pre-born human being in the right pelvis of the patient with evidence of severe and intentional trauma. The baby’s body was transected at the pelvis with no legs or feet present. Stumps of both femurs extended from the soft tissue of the torso.

The upper extremities were missing from elbow distally on both sides. The skull was crushed and no brain was present. The face was non-recognizable … there were small bony fragments in the mother’s pelvis.

“We knew from the CAT scan that she could have a perforated uterus, because you could see what looked like a human body. You could see a spine,” one of the surgeons said, adding that it was "the worst thing I’ve ever seen at surgery and I’ve been doing this for over 30 years” (emphasis added).

Pieces of the baby’s skull had also adhered to the woman’s intestines.

When the hospital surgeon attempted to speak with Reisinger-Kindle afterward, he allegedly refused to provide any information about the woman's case or condition, claiming he did not have the woman’s consent to discuss it with the surgeon. Yet when the abortionist spoke to the woman later, he never even told her he had been in contact with the surgeon.

A slap on the wrist

Reisinger-Kindle responded to the patient's lawsuit by attempting to strip her of her anonymity.

“When a plaintiff seeks to publicly challenge reproductive healthcare providers in court — especially in a matter of statewide media interest — transparency in the proceedings is paramount. Having already leveraged multiple high-profile media outlets to elevate her narrative and target named providers, Plaintiff should not now be permitted to evade the transparency and accountability that open litigation requires,” his motion said.

Reisinger-Kindle has been allowed to continue committing abortions, despite being reprimanded by the state of Illinois. He was also fined and reprimanded by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. In addition to being required to undergo 20 hours of CMEs, he had to pay $5,000 and received disciplinary action.

The Background:

ACOG has promoted abortion for decades, partners with abortion organizations for political abortion advocacy, and advocates for absolutely no gestational limits on the killing of preborn children.

Live Action News reported that in 2023, "In an op-ed written by leaders of ACOG and the Society of Family Planning for The Washington Post, the groups stated that abortion 'must be available without restrictions, without limitations and without barriers.'"

As Live Action Research Fellow Carole Novielli previously reported for Live Action News:

ACOG’s shift to abortion advocacy began shortly after its founding, and control of the organization was quickly taken by those involved with Planned Parenthood — the “endemically racist” Population Council, and the American Eugenics Society.

The Bottom Line:

The fact that ACOG chose to feature an abortionist who nearly killed a patient for "Maternal Health Awareness Day" shows very little awareness on ACOG's part, and very little care for women or maternal health.