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Autopsy is out! Will Planned Parenthood be held accountable for botched abortion death?

Operation Rescue got access to Tonya Reaves’ autopsy results earlier this week and shared them with the public. I read every detail of the 7-page report. I felt like vomiting, crying, and throwing something after I finished. The line about Tonya’s uterus being received in a separate container along with her body made me sick. The details on her toenails being painted pink caused me to hold back tears. The fact that the medical examiner ruled the death an accident makes me furious.

Thankfully, I’m not the only one who’s fuming. Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, told LifeNews:

“We strongly believe that criminal charges such as Depraved Indifference, Criminal Negligence, and Criminal Malpractice are applicable in this case and we again call for a criminal investigation into the death of Tonya Reaves.”

“Planned Parenthood killed her, now they must be brought to justice in a court of law.”

Newman is a strong voice working to expose Planned Parenthood’s negligence in the botched abortion and death of Ms.Reaves. He’s made it known that after the botched abortion, Tonya was left bleeding for five hours before being transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The doctors at the hospital weren’t even made aware of the details of Tonya’s messed up D&E.

Newman also said: “As bungled as this abortion was, we believe Tonya Reaves could have survived her injuries if she had gotten immediate emergency care and if Planned Parenthood had shared medical information with the hospital related to her incomplete abortion and uterine perforation. Instead, Planned Parenthood left the trauma team in the dark to solve the puzzle of Tonya’s injuries while her life ebbed away.”

Troy Newman is one among many who are refusing to let Tonya Reaves’ death get pushed under the rug. He is working through Operation Rescue to file a complaint with the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation against the abortionist who is believed to have performed Reaves abortion, Carolyn Hoke. Hoke is the medical director for Planned Parenthood of Illinois.

Questions are also being raised as to why Planned Parenthood neglected to use 911 emergency services after Tonya suffered complications. LifeNews shared questions from John Jansen of the Pro-Life Action League.

Did Planned Parenthood call a private ambulance company instead of calling 911? If so, why? It was a Chicago Fire Department ambulance that ultimately transported Tonya Reaves to Northwestern Memorial Hospital — five and a half hours after her abortion. If Planned Parenthood didn’t call 911, who notified the Fire Department and told them to send an ambulance?”  Does Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center have a medical emergency policy? If so, was it followed in the case of Tonya Reaves?

It’s clear that this case is not as straightforward as Planned Parenthood would make it out to be. The pro-life community must continue to seek answers regarding the death of this young woman. Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar organization, with influential friends and support from our government. They hope Tonya’s name will be forgotten. They want her death to appear as an lone “accident” in a sea of “safe” legal abortions. Read Tonya’s autopsy report. Let the chilling details awaken you to the reality of abortion gone wrong. Share Tonya’s story, pray for her family, do whatever you can to stand for truth in a time where deception abounds. Accidents do happen, but this is negligence at best! 

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  • peach

    You’ll excuse me if i don’t read the autopsy…that feels like an extreme violation of privacy to me. But John Jansen seems to have a lot of questions. So much that it seems he really doesn’t have any idea at all what happened to Reaves or what Planned Parenthood did that day.

    “They hope Tonya’s name will be forgotten.” How can you possibly know that? “They want her death to appear as an lone “accident”, amongst a sea of “safe” legal abortions.” Even if this particular physician from this particular Planned Parenthood does prove to have been negligible, Planned Parenthood performs, what is it you guys say? an abortion every 95 seconds? Yeah, any death is still tragic but it’s still safer than most other procedures and that includes giving birth.

    It’s tragic what happened to this woman but pleeeease stop making her into your poster child.

    • kristymom

      Excuse me, peach, but if you read previous articles, you would know that planned parenthood DID call 911 that day, after calling 211. They requested the police to come and remove a mother who was “harrassing” her daughter, most likely trying to keep her grandchild from being murdered. The 911 operator explained in great detail to the person from planned parenthood that they need to call 911 if there is an emergency. This call actually took place WHILE Tonya was bleeding out. So yes, planned parenthood is very negligent in the death of Tonya, and they should be held both civilly and criminally responsible for this woman’s death. She absolutely could have survived this procedure, perhaps been infertile, but alive. She is dead because the supposed medical professionals did not do their JOB! She is not anyone’s “poster child” she made a really bad choice that cost two lives. But she did not deserve to die, and planned parenthood needs to be held accountable so this cannot happen again. It was entirely preventable.

  • Faithkuz

    Come on peach–We do know enough to reach some basic conclusions and thinking people will reach them: the 911 call was not made for 5 1/2 hours; emergency crew at the hospital were not provided with details of the botched D & E; evidence of a uterine perforation indicates failure to diagnose complications at the time of the procedure resulting in hemorrhage or sepsis.
    As for your comment that abortion is “still safer than most other procedures and that includes giving birth.” Although this view was prevalent at the time of Roe v. Wade, it is no longer considered credible. “In arriving at the conclusion that abortion’s mortality rates are lower than those of childbirth in Roe v. Wade, Justice Blackmun relied on the
    studies and opinions of population control advocates Christopher Tietze,
    Malcolm Potts, and Lawrence Lader, all of whom were zealous
    promoters of liberalized abortion laws.149 The studies they relied on,
    however, had many methodological problems, including very limited
    access to patients for follow-up, no control group of delivering women,
    and lack of an objective standard for comparing mortality rates of delivering and aborting women.” (From a report originally published in the Journal of Contemporary Health, Law and Policy 2004 written by doctors and analyzing the results of numerous studies). We have, in the meantime, seen the wreckage of the abortion agenda, as women such as Tonya Reaves, are not cared for after complications arise.
    “After thirty years of experience with legal abortion in the United

    States, it is now clear that mortality risks associated with abortion
    significantly exceed those associated with childbirth, both in the short
    term (under one year) and in the longer term. While statistical
    association is not proof of causation, it is clear that abortion is, at the
    very least, a marker for elevated mortality rates”http://www.afterabortion.org/pdf/DeathsAssocWithAbortionJCHLP.pdf

    • http://twitter.com/xalisae xalisae

      She won’t read the autopsy, and yet still wants to make judgement calls about the safety of Planned Parenthood. How cute.

      Previous abortion is actually now officially indicated as a risk factor in pregnancy, and makes preterm birth of a “wanted” child more likely. So, not only is an abortion risking a mother’s life and killing her child, but it is putting subsequent children’s lives and health at risk: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/abortions-linked-to-risk-of-preterm-birth/

      But I wonder if Tonya Reaves looked like what Obama’s daughters would look like if they were being “punished with a baby”.

  • Theresa

    I just wanted to say that in the United States abortion is not safer than birth.

  • Richard

    This highlights the risks involved when one chooses an abortion–a D&E even moreso. If Planned Parenthood was negligent in her care they should be held accountable. Whether it rises to the level of criminality, i.e. PP had reason to believe that the procedure would likely result in grave bodily harm, is a matter for the courts. I think the ME’s determination of “accident” was only because the other determination that could be made would be “intentional” and whatever else you say about PP, it wasn’t trying to kill Tonya intentionally.