Planned Parenthood where teen died last year has injured another patient

Another woman has been injured at a Planned Parenthood facility in Fort Collins, Colorado — the same facility where a teenage girl was killed last year.

Key Takeaways:

• In 2025, 18-year-old Lexi Arguello died after undergoing a 22-week abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado.

• According to Arguello's family, the abortionists failed to transfer her in a timely manner.

• Abortion facilities are reportedly the only ambulatory surgical centers in the state not required to undergo safety inspections.

• Another woman has now been injured and transferred to the hospital after experiencing complications.

The Details:

Operation Rescue reported that a 30-year-old woman was injured at the same Planned Parenthood facility which killed another abortion patient last year.

In January, an ambulance was called, and according to Operation Rescue, the code for the call was “33C03T,” with the “C” representing a “Charlie Medical” call and a possibly life-threatening situation, and the “03” indicating the specific condition: either significant hemorrhage or shock.  

After the first ambulance was dispatched, a second was called to bring blood to the scene, insinuating that the complication was a hemorrhage.

“I have listened to hundreds of 911 calls and investigated even more abortion injuries. I have never heard an ambulance call for bags of blood to be brought on site at an abortion clinic," Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said. "How much blood had this woman lost to possibly need an immediate transfusion? Did responders suspect Planned Parenthood once again waited too long before calling 911 after ‘heavy complications’ began?”

The Backstory:

Last year, Lexi Arguello discovered she was 22 weeks pregnant when she sought an abortion. Testimony given during a Colorado Health and Human Services hearing painted a grim picture of what happened to her.

Dr. Keri Kasun testified that Arguello's family called for an investigation after she died on February 6, 2025.

Arguello's grandparents were called once she was transferred to the hospital, where doctors were desperately trying to save her life.

"Her vitals were all over the place; the oxygen levels were horrible. After multiple doses of the epi and seven liters of blood, his granddaughter’s… heart rate and blood pressure dropped and he [saw] in his granddaughter’s face that it was her end,” Dr. Kasun said. "He and his wife were devastated over the loss of their grandchild and their great-grandchild that day.”

Arguello died of an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) and because of the AFE, developed a disseminated intravascular coagulation. AFE is a life-threatening complication that can occur during delivery and induced abortion, and as Live Action News previously reported, it is a known risk of abortion:

Data show that as far back as 1956, AFE has been “an important cause of death from legally induced abortion.” From 1972 to 1978, there were 12 probable and three autopsy-confirmed cases of fatal AFE during legally induced abortions in the United States, accounting for 12% of all deaths from legal abortion at the time.

Researchers noted, “The risk of death appears to be related to gestational age: the death-to-case rate for AFE increases progressively from nil at less than or equal to 12 weeks’ gestation to 7.2 deaths per 100,000 abortions at greater than or equal to 21 weeks’ gestation.”

Kasun said Arguello was given the "silent siren" treatment, in which emergency responders are asked to arrive without lights or sirens to avoid alarming other patients, which can then cause delays in life-saving care.

Dr. Catherine Wheeler, a former abortionist who is now a pro-life advocate, said being in a properly licensed and regulated medical facility may have been able to save Arguello:

Typically [with AFE] the woman is just, out of the blue, has incredible anxiety. She may say, ‘I feel like I’m dying,’ become incredibly short of breath, become immediately hypoxic and low oxygen. Her blood pressure may drop out, and it is a true emergency. Half of the women will die within an hour in that situation.

... So I don’t know if she would’ve been saved. … But she would’ve been more likely to have been saved if there were good protocols, good transfer protocols that with the escalation of her illness, that if she was immediately transported to the hospital, her … chance of being saved may have been higher.” She noted that Lexi’s death is an example of why staff at an abortion facility should be “well trained” and have “had some multidisciplinary approach to statical emergencies…”

As Operation Rescue pointed out, abortion facilities are the only ambulatory surgical centers not required to undergo safety inspections in the state of Colorado.

The Bottom Line:

The current status of the most recent patient is not yet known, but it shows how abortion facilities are simply not safe for women — especially when they are not licensed, inspected, or regulated.