By Sarah Neely

Orange, CA – Imagine lying on an operating table – not in a hospital – but in an outpatient building, totally unequipped to handle emergency situations. A doctor hovers over you explaining the procedure has somehow gone wrong and you’re bleeding. Bleeding enough that you need an ambulance. You’re alone – no one was allowed to come back with you. You’re groggy from sedatives, maybe distracted by pain from the procedure – or is the pain from the complications? You aren’t sure, but you understand that you’re bleeding and need emergency care. 

Now, imagine hearing the person who is told to call 911 – the call that will bring life-saving care to your bleeding body – doesn’t answer the dispatcher’s crucial questions. In fact, she actively evades them, refusing to reveal how much you are bleeding or even the specific complication you’re experiencing. She isn’t doing everything she can to make sure you survive this. Instead, she has been specifically trained to evade 911, so that the very real medical emergency happening to you right now will remain hidden from the public eye. Even when your life hangs in balance.

This is the kind of terrifying scenario that women are apparently being made to endure, again and again, at the Planned Parenthood located in Orange, California. 

Documented History of Evasion

Operation Rescue first discovered this facility’s attempts to evade questions from 911 dispatch in 2021, when a woman required emergency transport for uncontrolled bleeding after an abortion. The 911 dispatch had to spend precious seconds just getting Planned Parenthood to confirm the woman was experiencing vaginal bleeding. In answer to questions, the staffer kept insisting Planned Parenthood would “brief them once the paramedics arrive.” 

This dangerous, new “script” started to appear in other 911 calls:

  • April 5, 2024 – A Planned Parenthood staffer refused to immediately provide information about a woman’s age, chief complaint, or even whether or not she was conscious. She referred to the botched abortion as a “pregnancy-related complication” and, as before, insisted paramedics could be briefed when they arrived. 
  • May 31, 2024 – Not only did the first Planned Parenthood staffer refuse to answer crucial questions about a woman who was hemorrhaging – simple things like “How much is she bleeding?” – another staffer took over the phone call and told the 911 dispatcher she was “concerned” about so many questions. Again, Planned Parenthood repeated that paramedics would be briefed after they arrived. 
  • March 21, 2025 – Though more cooperative than previous callers, the Planned Parenthood staffer could not confirm if the woman experiencing a “complication” was conscious and still hesitated to tell 911 dispatch the patient’s chief complaint, which was yet another hemorrhage. 

911 Dispatchers Getting Tired of it?

Records obtained by Operation Rescue reveal that on July 11, a woman experiencing uncontrollable bleeding during a second-trimester abortion received the same callous treatment. 

While she lay bleeding from what the Planned Parenthood staffer vaguely called a “pregnancy-related complication” (i.e. a botched abortion), PP Orange once more refused to answer questions from the 911 dispatcher, so much so that the dispatcher finally added this detail to the CAD report: “CP very evasive on providing any information or answering questions.”

“This is the first time we’ve seen 911 dispatch add comments regarding this facility’s brazen behavior,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Orange Dispatch is likely getting tired of Planned Parenthood calling them for help in an emergency, then inanely refusing to answer questions meant to help responders successfully meet the emergency.”

Dispatchers are trained to ask certain questions in order to ensure all the necessary units and equipment for a specific emergency arrive as fast as possible – giving suffering patients their best chance at being stabilized and surviving. 

Newman adds, “This Planned Parenthood is not only making the dispatcher’s job impossible, their staff are throwing aside the lives of women already in need of emergency care – and all so they can keep their botched abortions a secret.”

The Most Recent 911 Call 

In the audio recording from July 11, the Planned Parenthood staffer is clearly heard trying to withhold crucial medical information from the dispatcher. She dodges questions about how far along the woman is and even hesitates to confirm whether or not the woman is bleeding.

911: How far along is she, do you know?

PP: (Pause) Um, the doctor will be able to give details when the paramedics arrive.

911: I understand, but so I know how to categorize and send the right, appropriate units, do you know how many months or weeks pregnant she is?

PP: (Longer Pause) Uh, around 22.

911: Okay, that will help me so I appreciate you answering for me. And, um, is… Is she bleeding at all?

PP: (Hesitating) Um… 

At this point, someone in the background can be heard coaching her to repeat “We’ll give a report when the paramedics…”

PP: (Parroting) We’ll give a report when the paramedics arrive. It’s a pregnancy-related complication. 

911: I understand, but in order for me to send the appropriate units and the right equipment I do need to ask my questions so I can send the right equipment for you. Is she bleeding?

“This is a documented, dangerous script that Planned Parenthood is clearly pushing employees to utilize,” says Newman, “and, at a Planned Parenthood that keeps right on injuring women. We’ve documented a dozen in the past five years, alone.”

While California is currently known as one of the most radically pro-abortion states in the nation, there are still protocols in place that allow for the investigation and discipline of a licensed medical center or physician. Operation Rescue is pursuing every legal avenue to hold Planned Parenthood Orange accountable for injuring women and intentionally hampering emergency responders, beginning with filing formal complaints.

“Planned Parenthood is blatantly training employees to endanger patients,” Newman says. “California officials may choose to do nothing about it, but none of them will be able to say they were never alerted to this egregious behavior. Unfortunately, a patient often has to die before a pro-abortion state will take action against its precious abortion clinics – and, even then, officials have sometimes still chosen to keep ignoring back-alley practices in a state-licensed ‘clinic.’ Look at Kermit Gosnell, or the recent death of Lexi Arguello.

“Operation Rescue will not ignore them. We will continue documenting abuse and infractions within the abortion industry; we will continue calling for real investigations; and we will not stop until clinics like Planned Parenthood Orange have been fully exposed for the dirty, low-down killing centers that they are – killing centers that destroy the lives of women and children.”

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.”