Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent:
Operation Rescue investigates and documents botched abortions, abuse and negligence, and other “wrongdoings” at American abortion mills, and in its year-end report the organization said it conducted 56 investigations in 15 states.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, describes the process of investigating the abortion industry’s harms to women. “Many of these investigations begin with reports from dedicated sidewalk counselors,” said Newman. “At no charge to the local pro-life community, our small but effective team comes alongside these advocates to conduct a full investigation, tracking down public records, submitting complaints, handling crucial follow-up, and even bringing in legal help when needed.”
Sarah Neely, Operation Rescue’s COO, said that the organization, says, “Not every pro-lifer on the sidewalk has the time, resources, or experience needed to push for action from state agencies when they witness wrongdoing. That’s where OR comes in.”
Neely said Operation Rescue filed “dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests in the process and (submitted) over 20 complaints to licensing agencies and Boards of Medicine.” Neely said, “Many of these investigations take months to carry out and require multiple complaints to be submitted” and thus “The process is slow, and there has to be dedicated follow-up with each state department to ensure state officials cannot simply ignore abortion injuries or repeat violations.”
This year, Operation Rescue submitted more than 20 complaints, with 18 remaining open as of Dec. 31.
Notable cases highlighted in their year-end report included the story of Lexi Arguello, 18, a Colorado girl who died from complications resulting from a second-trimester abortion after Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins delayed emergency transport to a nearby hospital. Operation Rescue obtained 911 records, a “heavily redacted” copy of Arguello’s autopsy, and public testimony at a Health and Human Services Hearing to “reconstruct the timeline of that tragic day and confirm Lexi required emergency transport.”
Newman said his organization is working with legal counsel to “hold Colorado accountable for attempting to cover up the death of this young girl and her 22-week baby” after it redacted all information from the autopsy about the abortion and its complications.
Colorado abortion clinics, Operation Rescue reports, “are the only ambulatory centers in the state not required to be inspected or regulated,” so it is unsurprising that the group is investigated for a total of 15 abortion emergencies in 2025.
Meanwhile, Operation Rescue is conducting 22 abortion emergency investigations in Illinois “nearly all involving a woman with severe hemorrhaging, a perforated uterus, or both.”
In one case, revealed by an anonymous lawsuit, abortionist Keith Reisinger-Kindle tore a quarter-sized hole in the plaintiff’s uterus and left about half of the child’s dead body in her abdomen. Reisinger-Kindle was fined $5000 but remained licensed for medicine in the state.
In another case, Planned Parenthood in Aurora told 911 operators to send an ambulance but requested “no lights, no sirens” to pick up a hemorrhaging woman at their abortion mill.
Operation Rescue also revealed a police report of a complaint against the American Women’s Medical Center in Des Plaines, Illinois, alleging that in 2021 an abortionist, who prevented a pregnant woman from leaving the abortuary, was held down by a doctor and nurse, forcibly sedated, and then had her preborn baby killed against her will. Operation Rescue said that there is no record of the policy following up on the complaint.
Illinois and Colorado account for fully two-thirds of Operation Rescue’s investigations.
Newman said, “Americans being told that abortion is ‘safe’ deserve to know the truth about women being left to enter abortion clinics at their own risk – and about those who never make it back out.”
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