Planned Parenthood: Bring Out Your Dead!

With all the talk about possibly defunding Planned Parenthood, let's look at some of what they've done to women who trusted them:

Alexis "Lexi" Arguello was only 18 years old when she underwent an abortion at the Fort Collins, CO, Planned Parenthood in 2025. Planned Parenthood did an abortion her at 22 weeks even though their website says that they only do abortions up to 19 weeks and 6 days. She had developed a clotting disorder due to an amniotic fluid embolism -- a known possible complication that requires swift and decisive action to save the woman's life. Instead, Planned Parenthood requested an ambulance with no lights and sirens, delaying care. Her grandfather, who hadn't known about the pregnancy, rushed to the hospital as doctors did everything they could to save her, including multiple doses of epinephrine and seven liters of blood. She died as he watched helplessly. 

Alyona Dixon got abortion pills at a Nevada Planned Parenthood in September of 2022. Although research had shown that vaginal administration of misoprostol puts women at risk of sudden onset fatal toxic shock syndrome, Planned Parenthood instructed Alyona to take this risk. There's no evidence that she was informed of the risk of toxic shock syndrome, and there clearly was no arrangement for aftercare by a provider who would be alert to this deadly possibility. She ended up going septic and dying. Her death broke the streak of exclusively dead black woman at Planned Parenthood.

Cree Erwin-Shephard, age 24, suffered internal injuries during an abortion at Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When she suffered persistent pain, along with nausea and vomiting, she went to the hospital. They didn't provide adequate treatment  and sent her home. Her mother found her cold and stiff in the guest bedroom on the 4th of July, 2016. You can hear her mother's heartbreaking 911 call here. The autopsy found that she had a 1 1/2-inch full thickness tear in her uterus, and Planned Parenthood had somehow missed the fact that the doctor had done this to her and just sent her home to die. 

Tonya Reaves, age 24, left a one-year-old child motherless when she bled to death in July of 2012 after an abortion at a Chicago Planned Parenthood. The abortion had been performed at 11 am, but she wasn't transferred to a hospital until 4:30 pm. The CDC published an article back in 1983 explaining why there's no legitimate reason for a woman to bleed to death after a purportedly safe legal abortion. The article noted, "Deaths from hemorrhage can be eliminated by preventing uterine trauma during abortion and by rapidly diagnosing and treating hemorrhage if it occurs." Planned Parenthood, for some reason, failed to prevent the uterine trauma and failed to rapidly diagnose and treat Tonya's hemorrhage.

In 2009, 17-year-old Roselle Owens went to Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Center in New York for an abortion. The general anesthesia provided was contracted out rather than performed by Planned Parenthood staff. The procedure was finished at 9:20 am. Staff soon noticed that her breathing was labored and her blood oxygen levels were falling. Roselle's survivors noted that an ambulance wasn't ordered until 9:43, over 20 minutes after the abortion was finished. Efforts to save her failed, and she died without ever regaining consciousness. 

In 2008, 44-year-old Bonnie Hunt want to an Illinois Planned Parenthood and underwent an abortion. Afterwards she was hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, but they were unable to save her. Bonnie's mother sued. After the case dragged out in the courts, it was dismissed by stipulation or agreement.

     

When Edrica Goode went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion in 2007. A nurse examined her and noticed of obvious signs of a vaginal infection. The manufacturer of laminaria tents, used to dilate the cervix overnight, warns not to use them if the patient shows any sign of a vaginal infection, since laminaria absorb whatever moisture is in the area and would wick it directly into the uterus. Edrica was told to return the following day to get the laminaria removed and undergo her abortion. However, the infection spread into Edrica's uterus, and from there into her bloodstream, so quickly that by the following morning she was feverish, confused and disoriented. She didn't even know what day it was. Her family rushed her to the hospital, but since nobody knew about the abortion they didn't know to remove the laminaria and aggressively treat the infection. Edrica went septic and died.

Hoa Thuy "Vivian" Tran, age 22, went to Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood in late December of 2003. Six days later she was dead from sepsis. Her family sued Planned Parenthood, the Population Council (an organization that had pushed for fast-track approval of abortion pills), and the drug manufacturer, asserting that Vivian had not been adequately warned of the risks of a chemical abortion. 

Holly Patterson, age 18, died in mid-September of 2003 from sepsis caused by abortion drugs she got at a Planned Parenthood in Hayward, California. Instead of instructing Holly to place the second dose inside her cheek and letting it dissolve, as the FDA instructed, Planned Parenthood told her that she could insert it vaginally. Researchers believe that the vaginal insertion of this second drug makes otherwise healthy young women particularly vulnerable to sudden death from toxic shock syndrome. After his daughter's death, Holly's father, Monty, wanted to know why Planned Parenthood didn't follow the FDA-recommended regimen. He wanted to know why they sent her to the emergency room instead of to a specially trained doctor who would know how to treat abortion pill complications. He never got answers, and as we see from the death of Alyona Dixon, Planned Parenthood didn't stop using this dangerous protocol. 

Irene Stevenson went to a Chicago Planned Parenthood for an abortion in 2002. According to Social Security death records, Irene was a Black woman, which placed her statistically at higher risk of abortion death. Her husband, Maurice, said that she had developed an infection, which killed her. He sued Planned Parenthood, Dr. Murray Pelta, Dr. Lloyd Gregg, and Michael Reese Hospital. This would indicate that Irene was taken to Michael Reese Hospital at some point prior to her death. Planned Parenthood settled the malpractice case out-of-court. 

Diana Lopez was 25 years old and 19 weeks pregnant when she went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion in 2002. According to a lawsuit later filed by Diana's widowed husband, Dr. Mark Maltzer, who performed the abortion, had rushed through the abortion in just six minutes when even the website said that the procedure should take between 10 and 20 minutes. He managed to tear Diana's cervix, causing severe bleeding. Diana was rushed by ambulance to County Women's Hospital where doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy and transfused her with five units of blood. It was all in vain. Diana bled to death, leaving two young children motherless. This fatal abortion was funded by California taxpayers through the Medi-Cal program. 

In 1981 abortion patient Elise Kalat suffered a severe asthma attack after her abortion at a Massachusetts Planned Parenthood. When the medics arrived to take over Elise's care they found that nobody on site evidently knew how to perform even layman-quality CPR, much less the type of advanced CPR that would be expected of medical professionals. She had not been intubated. The person using the bag-valve mask was only inflating Elise's cheeks, not getting air into her lungs. The person performing the compressions was doing them on her abdomen rather than her chest. Nobody was monitoring her on an EKG, using a defibrillator, or administering cardiac medications. Thus it should be no surprise that Elise died. 

Far too many women have died from screw-ups and bad judgement at Planned Parenthood. They don't seem to be upholding the standards they want everybody to believe they're upholding.

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Post-script: I fed this information into Grok and asked AI to calculate the likely number of women who died after abortions at Planned Parenthood since 1980 and got the following conclusion: "Based on the 12 deaths you provided and available data, an estimated 100–300 women likely died from abortion-related complications at Planned Parenthood since 1980, with a central estimate of ~200. This is a rough approximation due to underreporting, varying mortality rates, and incomplete records. The cases you cited highlight serious lapses in care, particularly in emergency response and aftercare, which raise valid concerns about Planned Parenthood’s practices. However, these must be weighed against the organization’s role in providing legal, generally safe abortions and other healthcare services. For a more precise count, a comprehensive investigation into Planned Parenthood’s patient outcomes would be needed, but no such public dataset exists."