On the afternoon of September 30, 2025, two separate medical emergencies occurred at the Providence Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Rhode Island, both within roughly ninety minutes of each other. The incidents — as in other cases — raise concerns about patient safety, transparency surrounding abortion complications, and emergency protocols while public records are routinely redacted to withhold critical details.
First emergency: 12:30 p.m.
Around 12:30 p.m. on September 30, pro-life sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors saw fire and EMS personnel arrive and evacuate a person from the clinic. According to EMS radio dispatch audio obtained by Operation Rescue, the dispatcher announced that the abortion patient was “a 31-year-old woman,” with a “complication after procedure.” According to Planned Parenthood’s website, this facility does abortions up to 19 weeks and 6 days of gestation.
HELP LIFENEWS SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTION! Please help LifeNews.com with a donation!
The computer-aided dispatch (CAD) record released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, while not heavily redacted, concealed key points that hid the nature of the incident. However, the radio dispatch obtained by Operation Rescue confirms that the patient required emergency attention and was taken to a hospital following her abortion.
Second emergency: 1:46 p.m.
Less than two hours later, at approximately 1:46 p.m., another ambulance was summoned to the same location for a second medical emergency. As with the first incident, the CAD record obtained through FOIA was redacted to conceal the level and nature of the emergency. This time, however, the EMS radio dispatch identified the patient as a female “hemorrhaging after procedure” at the Planned Parenthood facility.
A hemorrhage is a potentially life-threatening complication and very likely caused by uterine perforation. At the very least, it requires critical intervention and hospital emergency care.
“The fact that two such emergencies occurred within ninety minutes at the same abortion center raises serious questions about patient safety and the standards of ‘healthcare’ being practiced inside these killing centers,” said Troy Newman, Operation Rescue President.
Secrecy in Rhode Island protects abortion
Although it is customary to redact names, phone numbers, or other identifying information from 911 public records in order to protect patient privacy while ensuring transparency for the public welfare, in both of these cases, audio was denied and CAD transcripts were not only redacted for private information but also key details including the type of procedure performed, the specific nature of each complication, and the medical response provided within the facility.
Newman adds, “We couldn’t get evidence from 911 records. The only available clues came through EMS radio traffic, which offered limited descriptions such as ‘complication after procedure’ and ‘hemorrhaging after procedure.’”
Under Rhode Island law (Title 39, Chapter 39-21.1, § 39-21.1-17), the audio from telephone calls and call transmissions received by 911 are to remain “confidential and used only for the purpose of handling emergency calls and for public safety purposes.” They “shall not be released … without the written consent of the caller whose voice is recorded or upon order of the court.”
This lack of transparency for 911 audio in the state of Rhode Island raises other concerns not only for abortion injuries but also for families trying to get recordings of 911 calls made when a loved one was in crisis or has died. They have been blocked from obtaining them. For example, a 2018 case: a 6-month-old baby in Warwick died after a 911 call where CPR instructions weren’t given, and the family couldn’t obtain the recording.
More questions
These incidents highlight other concerns, as well. Why did two serious medical emergencies occur at the same abortion facility on the same day within a span of ninety minutes? Was the abortion staff, or the abortionist, untrained, impaired, or negligent? Were emergency protocols in place and properly executed? What were the outcomes of the suffering women involved?
“The pattern of secrecy, combined with the redaction of critical information, undermines public trust and obstructs accountability.” Newman says. “When abortionists operate behind a wall of mystery, women’s safety is jeopardized. These two emergencies illustrate the danger states create when the abortion cartel is not subject to rigorous oversight and public disclosure.
“Two women left this killing center in ambulances within less than two hours — yet the public remains uninformed about what actually happened and is still left to believe that abortion is safe. Everybody involved, including the governmental departments tasked with overseeing emergency response, remains silent in order to preserve this myth. It is time to end secrecy; it is time to end the lack of accountability; it is time to abolish abortion in America.”
LifeNews Note: 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, Ricardo Pinedo, writes for Operation Rescue.”
