By Sarah Neely

Flossmoor, IL — On March 31, a 21-year-old woman required emergency transport from the Flossmoor Planned Parenthood in Illinois after a failed dilation and evacuation abortion. This botched abortion brings the number of known women injured in just one month by Illinois abortion facilities to six – with a grand total of eleven Illinois injuries in 2025 so far. 

According to 911 records provided by Pro-Life Action League, this woman was suffering from “intractable pain with an unknown source.” Intractable pain is generally defined as pain that is so severe, relentless, or debilitating that it does not respond to typical treatments.

The Planned Parenthood staffer listed off several strong medications already in this woman’s system from sedation for the abortion: ketamine, fentanyl, and Versed. At the time of the call, the staffer said the woman was also being administered “50 of additional fentanyl for her pain.” 

Even with such powerful medications, her pain was still so severe that she required an ambulance. 

Though the Planned Parenthood staffer did not specifically mention an abortion injury, she did admit they were unable to finish the D&E procedure. The reason is not clearly stated, whether it was directly related to the intense pain or some other complication. The staffer also never volunteered where the pain was located, only that it was from “an unknown source.” 

Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue comments, “If you develop horrific pain just moments after undergoing something as traumatic to the body as a dilation and evacuation abortion – which Planned Parenthood wasn’t able to complete, meaning they botched it – you’d think the pain would be from a very obvious and likely source, not an ‘unknown’ one.”

During a D&E, the mother’s cervix is dilated and her baby is painfully dismembered by using special tongs with teeth that can grab onto hands, legs or other body parts and tear them from the uterus. The head often has to be crushed in order to finish removal.

“It’s clear that this mother is in need of emergency care, but there’s a second victim in this, and every, abortion,” adds Newman. “If Planned Parenthood was unable to complete an abortion that is only considered successful after a child’s body has been torn limb from limb, I shudder to think what state this baby’s body might have been left in from an unfinished D&E. Was the child’s body even fully removed from the mom?” 

Just days before this botched abortion took place in Flossmoor, national news broke of a lawsuit filed by a woman who underwent another botched D&E in Illinois, during which abortionist Keith Reisinger-Kindle tore a quarter-sized hole in the woman’s uterus and left half of the child’s dead body in her abdomen.

“Illinois is called an ‘abortion destination,’” says Newman, “but ‘abortion devastation’ is a much more accurate description. Illinois no longer requires abortion clinics to be regulated. Routine inspections, common sense safety protocols, oversight and accountability – all of those are now optional, and it shows. Women are practically being streamlined into emergency rooms all over this state.”

In the month of March, alone, six women landed in the emergency room after botched abortions and complications in clinics across the state:

  • March 5, Planned Parenthood (Aurora, IL) –  Emergency transfer for a woman in her late twenties with heavy bleeding following a “procedure” (i.e. an abortion).
  • March 7, Hope Clinic (Granite City, IL) – Citizens witnessed a patient walk herself to the emergency room across the street from the clinic.
  • March 11, Hope Clinic (Granite CIty, IL) – Citizens witnessed an ambulance transfer a woman from the clinic to the hospital across the street.
  • March 13, Near North Planned Parenthood (Chicago, IL) – Emergency transfer for a 23-year-old woman with heavy bleeding “post-procedure” (i.e. an abortion).
  • March 22, Hope Clinic (Granite City, IL) – Emergency transfer for a 30-year-old woman who was “having too much bleeding.”
  • March 31, Planned Parenthood (Flossmoor, IL) – Today’s main story, a 21-year-old woman with “intractable pain with an unknown source” after a failed D&E abortion.

“Operation Rescue is keeping a close watch on women being injured in the unregulated, unconscionable, abortion state of Illinois, while state officials standby and do nothing to hold these clinics accountable,” adds Newman.

Thanks to the diligent documentation of groups like Pro-Life Action League and other caring sidewalk advocates, Operation Rescue has been able to maintain a running tally of abortion injuries this year, investigating each one.

“Since January 1, eleven women have been injured by six different clinics,” Newman says. “Last year, we investigated a total of 18 emergencies in this state. Now, we are not even six months into 2025 and we have almost reached 2024’s total. Illinois lawmakers need to wake up and acknowledge that patients – not abortion clinics – are the ones who need protecting in their state.”

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, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.”