NM: 'Wild, wild west of the abortion industry'

Operation Rescue has released the second in a series of 911 calls made over a recent 15-month period from Southwestern Women’s Options, an abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that reveals a botched first trimester abortion procedure that required emergency medical intervention. The patient was a 30-year old woman who suffered “uterine bleeding”, a sign of a possible punctured womb, which is a life-threatening abortion complication. The call was placed on November 3, 2010, at 12:42 PM.

“New Mexico is the wild, wild west of the abortion industry. It has so little oversight that incidents like these are common place. Women who walk into an abortion clinic in New Mexico are playing what amounts to ‘Russian Roulette’ with their lives,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. Last week, Operation Rescue released the first of four 911 calls placed from Southwestern Women’s Options between February, 2010, and May, 2011. That call indicated that SWO had just completed a second-trimester abortion on a 17-year old girl who suffered from a fever, a possible sign of infection, a rapid pulse, and uncontrolled bleeding.