‘No lights or sirens’ requested in ambulance call to Illinois Planned Parenthood

Operation Rescue has received records showing that a 911 call was made from Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois, in May, due to a patient hemorrhaging. Despite the injury, the caller requested no lights or sirens from the responding ambulance.

Key Takeaways:

• A 30-year-old woman needed emergency transport after hemorrhaging from a presumed botched abortion at Planned Parenthood Aurora.

• Despite the urgency of an injury requiring an ambulance, the caller requested no lights and sirens — a common tactic abortion facilities use to avoid attention that injuries are happening inside their walls which can delay patient care.

• Abortion facilities are not required to meet any health or safety standards in Illinois.

The Details:

According to the 911 records, the Planned Parenthood caller specified that the 30-year-old patient needed ambulance transport because she was hemorrhaging, a common risk associated with abortion procedures.

Though the common response to an emergency is lights and sirens, the caller specifically asked these to be turned off — presumably to detract from negative attention. However, this also likely slowed down the response time of the emergency personnel, further putting the injured woman at risk. It’s not the first time this request has been made at this facility. It is also a pattern that’s been seen at abortion facilities nationwide.

“Can we have them, um–no sirens, no lights–and then could they pull to the furthest doors?” the caller asked the dispatcher.

This is at least the fourth known abortion injury at this location this year alone. This facility offers second-trimester D&E abortions, and has a long history of injuring women.

Reality Check:

Operation Rescue has documented an alarming number of injuries at Illinois abortion facilities this year — 15 women injured at seven facilities just in the past six months. And these are just the known and reported incidents. The organization’s president, Troy Newman, attributes many of these injuries to the fact that the state requires no oversight of abortion facilities, which means they don’t have to meet any commonsense health or safety standards.

“These increasing medical emergencies raise crucial questions about the total lack of safety practices and regulatory oversight for abortion facilities in Illinois,” Newman said in April.

The Bottom Line:

Newman also called out the complete disregard for the injured woman in asking for an ambulance without lights or sirens.

“There is absolutely no justifiable reason to request no lights and no sirens in the midst of an emergency situation. The only reason is to attempt to downplay or outright hide the fact that your clinic is sending a woman to the ER.

Planned Parenthood asks for no lights and sirens to callously protect itself from any public scrutiny while the woman whose life is in real jeopardy is totally disregarded – just as the life of her child was when she came into a dangerous – and thanks to abortion radicals – completely unregulated abortion clinic.”