She died during a late-term abortion. Now, her mother wants answers.

Tina Atkins, the mother of a 23-year-old Keisha Atkins, who died from complications during a late-term abortion, is now seeking a wrongful death investigation. Keisha went to Southwestern Women’s Options — an infamous late-term abortion facility which has already been a subject in a congressional investigation — to obtain an abortion at approximately six months’ gestation.

New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) reports that Atkins has retained Albuquerque attorney Michael Seibel as she seeks answers about her daughter’s untimely death:

See the autopsy report here.

Did conflict of interest play a role in Keisha’s death?

But the spokesperson for Atkins’ family, NMAFL director Elisa Martinez, sees nothing “natural” about the events—especially in light of the history of the abortion facility. Martinez is serving as spokesperson so that Tina Atkins and her family can have privacy as they deal with the situation. Martinez said:

UNM and its partnership with SWO have been the subject of many headlines. SWO is the facility run by late-term abortionist, Curtis Boyd. Boyd and his partnership with the university’s OB-GYN program were part of the investigation by the congressional Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. SWO provided the university with fetal tissue. In fact, the university abruptly halted its training program with SWO after an investigation by NMAFL. Yet even after halting the program, the university health center told the Albuquerque Journal it had “no plan to stop accepting fetal tissue from Boyd’s clinic – despite an internal policy that appears to call the practice into question.” The Journal added:

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Live Action News reported on Atkins’ death last year, noting that an autopsy by the UNM Office of the Medical Investigator “determined that Atkins’ cause of death was ‘pulmonary thromboembolism due to pregnancy,’ in other words, blood clots in the lungs,” adding that “[Operation Rescue] believes this is a ‘whitewash’ meant to blame Atkins’ pregnancy for her death, instead of laying the blame on a mismanaged abortion procedure.”

Did Keisha really die from pregnancy… or from the brutal, four-day abortion process?

Operation Rescue noted:

These reasons are part of why Atkins’ mother is determined to get to the bottom of the cause of losing her daughter during a late-term abortion — and her grandchild. According to NMAFL, Atkins said, “All I want is justice for my baby and my grandbaby and every other woman who has put her life and health at risk to endure this brutal procedure,” adding, “My grandbaby would have been a year and 3 months now, but instead I have to deal with the constant pain of two deaths, my daughter and grandbaby, as well as the injustice.”

At 24 weeks of pregnancy, and with a four-day process, it sounds as if Keisha endured a late-term abortion by induction, a procedure explained below by former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino:

3rd Trimester Induction Abortion: Injection and Stillbirth

Will the abortion industry’s secrecy hinder the transparency Keisha’s family seeks?

Atkins’ attorney, Seibel, told Live Action News, “The circumstances underlying Keisha Atkins medical treatment clearly warrant a complete and thorough investigation of the true cause of her death. If any wrongdoing is found, Tina Atkins is committed to pursuing all legal avenues to ensure justice on behalf of her daughter,” adding that Atkins’ “commitment and courage” to search for the truth should be applauded by the public, as the abortion industry has a great deal of secrecy.

And Martinez says that secrecy needs to be exposed, as it relates to the young woman’s death, adding:

To that degree, NMAFL says, “Seibel has subpoenaed internal notes, memorandum, photographic evidence and all documents relating to Atkins’ autopsy performed by the Office of the Medical Investigator at the UNM School of Medicine. Additionally, Seibel has requested a complete history of all medical records for Keisha Atkins from both SWO and UNM Hospital.” Seidel added that he is looking forward to working with the New Mexico Medical Board, as well, and indicated he would file a formal complaint on behalf of the victim. Seibel did not mention the name of the abortionist. Boyd’s facility has at least four abortionists, according to Operation Rescue’s database of abortionists and their facilities. They include Carmen Landau, Curtis Wayne Boyd, Emily Rothman, and Shelley Sella.

Sella and Landau can be heard in Live Action’s InHuman investigation on late-term abortion below:

Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry - New Mexico

The ongoing problems at abortion facilities continue to remind women that these facilities are far from the safe and caring environment they are promoted to be. Pro-lifers often remind people that two people go into the abortion facility, but only one comes out. In Keisha Atkins’ case, two went in and none came out. Now Tina Atkins and her family are demanding to know why.