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Two more emergencies at Chicago-area abortion businesses
Two Chicago-area abortion businesses in Illinois experienced emergencies within weeks of each other, as the abortion industry there remains largely unaccountable.
Planned Parenthood Near North in Chicago called 911 after botching an abortion.
Carafem in Skokie (a suburb of Chicago) likewise sent a patient to the hospital when she experienced heavy bleeding following an abortion.
The abortion industry in Illinois is largely unregulated, allowing women to be injured without consequence.
Operation Rescue reported on two abortion emergencies in Illinois, which occurred within just weeks of each other. The first took place in July and the second in August.
There were reportedly 22 known injures in Illinois in 2025, though the number may be higher; if pro-lifers were not there to witness the arrival of an ambulance, it's likely the injury went undocumented.
On July 9, a Planned Parenthood staffer called 911 requesting an ambulance for a 28-year-old patient. Oddly, the staffer seemed to be confused about the location of the facility where she was; she first gave the incorrect street address, and did not answer when the dispatcher asked multiple times if the facility was on the first floor, before finally admitting it was in the basement of the building.
She then explained what happened, and it sounded as if the abortion procedure was botched.
"So the doctor was in a procedure, but... because she couldn't... she was in a procedure, but the physician cannot complete it, and because she's had a lot of strong medication, and she wants to transfer out to the hospital," the staffer said.
The actual emergency was not made clear at all, so the dispatcher had to repeat herself, asking for a second time what was wrong with the patient.
"She's under a lot of sedative medication, so, and we can't finish the procedure so the doctor — " the staffer said, before the dispatcher interrupted, "What's the procedure?"
"She's — a procedural — an abortion, so she's in the middle of one, and she couldn't complete it, because the patient has false uterine passages," the staffer finally admitted. "She can't complete it and because we already started the process, she can't leave — let her go home like that as well."
The staffer then said she had been in the room for over 30 minutes, was in and out of sleep, and had received "a lot of medications," which included fentanyl, versed, and ketamine.
She then could be heard consulting with someone in the background as to what phone number to give the dispatcher, another oddity considering she works there and would seemingly have the facility's contact information. She ultimately gave the dispatcher her personal cell phone number.
And while the staffer portrayed a false uterine passage as something the patient had, this is actually a complication of a surgical procedure.
This occurs when the surgeon — or in this case, abortionist — attempts to dilate the cervix or guide instruments into the uterine cavity. Instead of entering the uterus through the cervical opening, the instruments go off-course and tear into the muscle wall of the uterus, creating, as the name suggests, a false passage. This injury can lead to uterine perforation, internal bleeding, and threaten future pregnancies due to scar tissue if not surgically repaired.
It is unknown in this case how severe the complication was.
This facility has injured women before, and in one instance specifically allegedly kicked out a woman who was reportedly injured so badly she couldn't stand. She had to call an ambulance for herself, in tears, from the sidewalk outside.
On August 21, Carafem in Skokie, Illinois, sent a 30-year-old woman to the hospital. This time, there was less concrete information about the emergency.
"We have a patient here in the clinic who's experiencing some heavy bleeding following a procedure, and needs transport to the emergency room," the staffer said.
Oddly, when asked what procedure the patient had, the staffer was incredibly evasive; after a long pause, she replied, "It's a... gynecological... procedure."
Carafem in Skokie appears to offer the abortion pill as well as in-office abortions through 13 weeks.
And, as is so common in the abortion industry, she requested that the ambulance not use sirens, though the dispatcher said he couldn't promise they would honor that request.
According to Operation Rescue, when emergency medical personnel arrived, the woman's blood pressure had fallen to 50/30, which is dangerously low, and she was placed on Advanced Life Support before being transported to the hospital.
Carafem likewise has documented medical emergencies in the past.
Illinois is one of the most pro-abortion states in the country, and most abortion facilities in the state are not required to meet any licensing or inspection requirements, putting women (and preborn children) in serious danger.
Operation Rescue stated in March 2026 that it "reached out to the Illinois Department of Public Health to follow up on a complaint OR submitted against Planned Parenthood Near North" in November of 2025, adding, "The Illinois Department of Public Health replied that it does not license Planned Parenthood facilities and, by the Department’s own admission, leaves abortion clinics without any oversight" (emphasis added).
Operation Rescue president Troy Newman said at the time (emphasis added), “Twenty-two women left an Illinois abortion clinic in an ambulance last year [2025], nearly all of them hemorrhaging, and the state of Illinois didn’t investigate a single incident. Not one.”
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·Two more emergencies at Chicago-area abortion businesses
Two Chicago-area abortion businesses in Illinois experienced emergencies within weeks of each other, as the abortion industry there remains largely unaccountable.
Planned Parenthood Near North in Chicago called 911 after botching an abortion.
Carafem in Skokie (a suburb of Chicago) likewise sent a patient to the hospital when she experienced heavy bleeding following an abortion.
The abortion industry in Illinois is largely unregulated, allowing women to be injured without consequence.
Operation Rescue reported on two abortion emergencies in Illinois, which occurred within just weeks of each other. The first took place in July and the second in August.
There were reportedly 22 known injures in Illinois in 2025, though the number may be higher; if pro-lifers were not there to witness the arrival of an ambulance, it's likely the injury went undocumented.
On July 9, a Planned Parenthood staffer called 911 requesting an ambulance for a 28-year-old patient. Oddly, the staffer seemed to be confused about the location of the facility where she was; she first gave the incorrect street address, and did not answer when the dispatcher asked multiple times if the facility was on the first floor, before finally admitting it was in the basement of the building.
She then explained what happened, and it sounded as if the abortion procedure was botched.
"So the doctor was in a procedure, but... because she couldn't... she was in a procedure, but the physician cannot complete it, and because she's had a lot of strong medication, and she wants to transfer out to the hospital," the staffer said.
The actual emergency was not made clear at all, so the dispatcher had to repeat herself, asking for a second time what was wrong with the patient.
"She's under a lot of sedative medication, so, and we can't finish the procedure so the doctor — " the staffer said, before the dispatcher interrupted, "What's the procedure?"
"She's — a procedural — an abortion, so she's in the middle of one, and she couldn't complete it, because the patient has false uterine passages," the staffer finally admitted. "She can't complete it and because we already started the process, she can't leave — let her go home like that as well."
The staffer then said she had been in the room for over 30 minutes, was in and out of sleep, and had received "a lot of medications," which included fentanyl, versed, and ketamine.
She then could be heard consulting with someone in the background as to what phone number to give the dispatcher, another oddity considering she works there and would seemingly have the facility's contact information. She ultimately gave the dispatcher her personal cell phone number.
And while the staffer portrayed a false uterine passage as something the patient had, this is actually a complication of a surgical procedure.
This occurs when the surgeon — or in this case, abortionist — attempts to dilate the cervix or guide instruments into the uterine cavity. Instead of entering the uterus through the cervical opening, the instruments go off-course and tear into the muscle wall of the uterus, creating, as the name suggests, a false passage. This injury can lead to uterine perforation, internal bleeding, and threaten future pregnancies due to scar tissue if not surgically repaired.
It is unknown in this case how severe the complication was.
This facility has injured women before, and in one instance specifically allegedly kicked out a woman who was reportedly injured so badly she couldn't stand. She had to call an ambulance for herself, in tears, from the sidewalk outside.
On August 21, Carafem in Skokie, Illinois, sent a 30-year-old woman to the hospital. This time, there was less concrete information about the emergency.
"We have a patient here in the clinic who's experiencing some heavy bleeding following a procedure, and needs transport to the emergency room," the staffer said.
Oddly, when asked what procedure the patient had, the staffer was incredibly evasive; after a long pause, she replied, "It's a... gynecological... procedure."
Carafem in Skokie appears to offer the abortion pill as well as in-office abortions through 13 weeks.
And, as is so common in the abortion industry, she requested that the ambulance not use sirens, though the dispatcher said he couldn't promise they would honor that request.
According to Operation Rescue, when emergency medical personnel arrived, the woman's blood pressure had fallen to 50/30, which is dangerously low, and she was placed on Advanced Life Support before being transported to the hospital.
Carafem likewise has documented medical emergencies in the past.
Illinois is one of the most pro-abortion states in the country, and most abortion facilities in the state are not required to meet any licensing or inspection requirements, putting women (and preborn children) in serious danger.
Operation Rescue stated in March 2026 that it "reached out to the Illinois Department of Public Health to follow up on a complaint OR submitted against Planned Parenthood Near North" in November of 2025, adding, "The Illinois Department of Public Health replied that it does not license Planned Parenthood facilities and, by the Department’s own admission, leaves abortion clinics without any oversight" (emphasis added).
Operation Rescue president Troy Newman said at the time (emphasis added), “Twenty-two women left an Illinois abortion clinic in an ambulance last year [2025], nearly all of them hemorrhaging, and the state of Illinois didn’t investigate a single incident. Not one.”
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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