Two separate Illinois abortion facilities had to call 911 for two medical emergencies, in the span of just two days.

Key Takeaways:

• The Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City requested emergency transport for a 15-year-old girl with a high heart rate.

• Planned Parenthood in Aurora called 911 for a woman who had no pulse after staff began sedation.

• Both facilities have a long history of injuring women.

The Details:

Operation Rescue reported the facts as currently known for both emergencies.

Emergency #1: Rapid heartbeat

The first occurred on July 22 and involved a 15-year-old girl who visited the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, just minutes away from St. Louis, Missouri.

While it's not known what caused the medical emergency, Hope Clinic's website makes it clear that the primary service available at the facility is abortion.

The EMS audio revealed the girl was conscious and breathing, but had a “high heart rate." This is known as tachycardia. If she was experiencing any other symptoms, they were not reported, though even on its own, tachycardia can be the first sign of the body going into shock.

There are numerous things following an abortion that could cause tachycardia: hemorrhage (both external or internal), sepsis, or an adverse drug reaction.

Unfortunately, the girl's condition and what caused the emergency are not known.

Emergency #2: No pulse

Two days later, on July 24, a second abortion-related emergency occurred. This time, it was at the Planned Parenthood facility in Aurora, Illinois, which is not far from Chicago. The EMS audio from this call included comments from the staffer.

"I just need an ambulance transfer to the hospital," the staffer said, and then asked another person in the background how old the patient was before reporting that she was 21. The dispatcher then had to ask multiple times what the reason was for calling 911 before the staffer answered.

"She's de-satting — I'm sorry. She's de-satting," the staffer said, to which the confused dispatcher asked, "What is that?"

"Her vitals are going down," the staffer responded. "She's being sedated and at some point, she stopped having a pulse."

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This time, it was confirmed that the woman was undergoing a surgical abortion.

"De-satting" is shorthand for desaturating, meaning a person's blood oxygen levels are falling. While details beyond this are not known, it is clear that this was a critical emergency.

Worse, the staffer withheld the most vital piece of information — that the woman lost a pulse — until later in the call, downplaying the severity of the emergency, and delaying emergency response.

Once again, the status of this woman is not known.

The Big Picture:

Both facilities are known to have a history of injuring women.

Planned Parenthood Aurora had multiple abortion injuries last year alone, commits second-trimester D&E abortions, and has a long history of injuring women. Staffers frequently request ambulances to come without lights or sirens.

Hope Clinic similarly has injured women.

The facility is known to have sent multiple abortion patients to the hospital with injuries, including three women in the span of two months in late 2023. That year, Hope Clinic had 17 known injuries. In one particularly disturbing 911 call, a staffer was heard cavalierly laughing after a woman was injured.

Hope Clinic is known to send its patients to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, which is 20 minutes away, even though there is a hospital directly across the street. The owner of the abortion facility, abortionist Erin King, is married to David Eisenberg, a gynecologist who works at Barnes-Jewish/Washington University. While it is designated as a Level 1 trauma center, meaning it is a "comprehensive regional resource that serves large cities and is equipped to provide the most complete and complex level of care for trauma patients," it may also be preferred due to Eisenberg's presence.

Eisenberg has been involved with multiple abortion-related studies and is the "Division Chief of Complex Family Planning" at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Additionally, as Live Action News previously reported:

[A]bortionist David Eisenberg (also a Washington University physician) was the medical director at Planned Parenthood in St. Louis. Eisenberg was caught practicing questionable hand hygiene at the facility and downplayed the seriousness of the health code violations. Eisenberg said that abortionists at the facility did not report complications because, according to the lawsuit, “they did not expect the state to enforce the law.”

The Bottom Line:

Illinois officials continue to turn a blind eye to the abortion industry, and women will continue to be injured in the meantime.