Salem, OR – On the afternoon of October 26, 2026, a 37-year-old woman suffered complications during an abortion at the Planned Parenthood facility located at 3825 Wolverine St NE in Salem. This is the second abortion injury at this location Operation Rescue has investigated this year.
Although this new emergency was initially reported to Operation Rescue by eyewitnesses who saw the ambulance come to transport the patient, the computer aided dispatch (CAD) report obtained by Operation Rescue confirmed the severity of the situation.
Operation Rescue’s investigative team requests 911 records because all 911 calls and CAD printouts are public records that keep government-run emergency operations accountable to the public which funds them. Names and other identifying information is redacted, allowing the public to hear exactly what was said and how the emergency was described while still preserving patient privacy
However, when the City of Salem released the audio of the 911 call — which normally would convey the caller’s own words and tone of voice — it was so heavily redacted that it was impossible to learn anything.
Why the audio recording was withheld—and what it might show—remain unanswered.
What we do know
The CAD report shows that at 2:11 p.m., the emergency dispatch office received a 911 call on a Verizon cell phone coming from inside the Planned Parenthood location on Wolverine Street. The caller told the dispatcher that a female aged 37 underwent an abortion and was “still having heavy bleeding.” The patient was “no longer pregnant” but was having “critical symptoms” and continued vaginal hemorrhage. Over the next two and a half minutes the 911 dispatcher documented the emergency and sent two emergency medical response teams to the scene.
Based on whatever the caller said, the dispatcher classified the emergency as “BLEED1.” In Salem, “BLEED” is used to classify a high-priority emergency involving severe active bleeding, lacerations, or hemorrhage. In WVCC’s dispatch system for Fire and EMS, a “1” suffix designates the highest-acuity medical response, meaning the situation is potentially life-threatening and requires an immediate, lights-and-sirens (Code 3) response.
In a “BLEED1” emergency, an Advanced Life Support (ALS) medic team and ambulance is dispatched for immediate trauma care, bleeding control, and rapid transport; and the nearest Salem Fire Department engine with EMTs is dispatched alongside the ambulance to provide extra hands and rapid life-saving interventions on scene. This is indeed what happened, with ALS ambulance Medic 38 and fire engine F8 dispatched to the scene.
Less than six minutes later, the ALS medic crew arrived on scene to help the woman. A few minutes after that, the EMTs arrived. However, what happened in the next 30 minutes is missing. We know it took over 32 minutes for emergency medical personnel to help the hemorrhaging woman and successfully arrive at the Salem Memorial Hospital. Then the ALS emergency crew was at the hospital for 37 minutes more, helping to transition the woman, before they could successfully sign off as “available.”
“The cartel insists that abortion is simple, routine, and safe, but 911 records like this tell a different story,” said Operation Rescue President, Troy Newman, “a story that Planned Parenthood never puts in its brochures. And now, with the big victory for Democrats in the recent midterm election, we can expect more of this kind of shrouded secrecy and less accountability for the abortion cartel and other ‘pro-choice’ advocates who keep injuring women and killing babies.”
Image taken by pro-lifer on the scene
No limits, no questions
This emergency happened in one of the most permissive abortion jurisdictions in the country. Oregon’s 2017 “Reproductive Health Equity Act” made abortion a publicly-funded healthcare right. Oregon also has no gestational limit on abortion — in other words, babies can be killed up to the moment of birth. Oregon aligns with the minority of states such as Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Vermont, plus the District of Columbia, which have removed general gestational age limits for abortion.
“The list of radicalized states keeps growing,” said Operation Rescue COO, Sarah Neely. “In August, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, removing the state’s 24-weeks-gestation limit on abortion. The law effectively legalizes abortion until birth, based on the judgment of a physician –he ‘physician’ being the abortionist who can now invent any reason to justify a late-term abortion, which is very lucrative for them. This law is so barbaric that nine House Democrats broke ranks to oppose it.”
Virginia is moving the same way. Voters approved a constitutional amendment enshrining protection of what they call “reproductive freedom” on election day, November 3. The law will take effect on January 1, 2027, and will make abortions legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
“Before the amendment, Virginia generally permitted abortion through the end of the second trimester,” Neely said. “Third-trimester abortions were permitted only under more narrow exceptions, which required approval by three physicians. Now it is enough if just one ‘physician,’ that is, the abortionist, decides to perform any abortion at any stage of pregnancy.”
Not to the strong alone
The pattern across these states is the same: fewer limits, less oversight, and more women in the clutches of an industry that answers to no one when something goes wrong.
“Our country is going in the wrong direction,” Newman observed. “In states that were nominally pro-abortion, they are now openly celebrating this barbarism. In many states that were traditionally pro-life, Democrats upset the elections and will take control in January. Even states like Kansas with pro-life legislators have become what we call an abortion devastation because of a Democratic governor and unaccountable Supreme Court.
“In Texas, after abortion proponents like Gina Hinojosa and James Talarico were elected as Governor and Senator, the internet went wild with the viral video of pro-abort women cheering ‘Abortion is back!’ This is utterly demonic. We must remember the words of Patrick Henry: battle is not to the strong alone, but to the vigilant, the active, the brave. The Lord is with us. We cannot fear what men may do. We must keep praying and proclaiming the truth even though hard times may be ahead for defenders of the unborn. We know ultimately: He wins!”
This report may be republished with inclusion of the following acknowledgement: “This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Ricardo Pinedo, writes for Operation Rescue.”
