Abortion Clinic That Kills Babies Up to 34 Weeks Has Injured 25 Women

When ‘Hopeless’ Clinic in Granite City announced the opening of its second location, Hope Clinic Chicago, Operation Rescue’s investigative team knew it would only be a matter of time before women were wheeled out on stretchers from the new location, which offers dangerous late-term abortions up to 34 weeks.

Already the Worst of the Worst

In the last three years, alone, Operation Rescue investigated 25 emergencies at the Granite City location. In 2023, it earned OR’s title for “Worst of the Worst” due to the number of women injured in just one year.

Despite an endless line of women on stretchers being loaded into ambulances, Hope Clinic announced the opening of its Chicago location in the summer of 2025, emphasizing abortion for “all trimesters” even while Illinois state law limited abortion after viability. It was very clear this new clinic was not worried about that law ever being enforced.

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“Illinois abortion clinics already know the state is not requiring inspections or licensing for abortion clinics,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “In 2019, legislators also expanded the definition of ‘viability’ and left that determination solely at the discretion of the abortionists. With these politically motivated changes, any real protections for women or preborn children have been tossed aside, and the door for abortion through all nine months swung wide open. There is nothing to stop abortion clinics from operating as they please and performing abortions as late as they want.”

As a result, the abortion injuries are piling up — including at ‘Hopeless’ Clinic Chicago, which hasn’t even been open a full year.

Operation Rescue has already published two reports on a rash of abortion injuries recently documented at clinics across Chicago. One woman suffered a collapsed lung and another was left to hemorrhage while confused abortion staffers scrambled to call 911.

Additional 911 audio records of two separate calls from Hope Clinic Chicago reveal two more emergencies, both with chillingly deceptive rhetoric from an abortionist and other staffers.

The first Hopeless emergency: “She gave birth”

On December 10, 2025, an abortionist identifying herself as “Dr. Hinz” called 911 from Hope Clinic Chicago to request emergency transport for a woman experiencing complications. This is likely Erica Hinz, an abortionist currently licensed in Illinois and listed as the Director of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University of Illinois College of Medicine.

During the 911 call, Hinz made sure to quickly point out the woman already underwent an “uncomplicated procedure” before stating she was now experiencing “elevated blood pressures” and “a new oxygen requirement.” The abortionist told 911 dispatch she thought it was preeclampsia.

At no point did Hinz use the word “abortion” or “termination,” leaving the 911 dispatcher to think, instead, the woman was still pregnant and needed to get to an emergency room. This is made evident when the dispatcher asks, “And how far along is she?”

After a beat, Hinz answers, “She was thirty weeks, she is no longer pregnant.”

The dispatcher seems to stumble over his words then, trying to process the confusing statement Hinz just said. Finally he asks, “Did…she have a miscarriage, or did she give birth?”

It seems the correct answer would have been neither, she underwent an induction abortion. Instead, Hinz just answers, “She gave birth.”

“This is an abortion clinic,” Newman says, “not a birthing center. In an abortion like this one, this woman would have been given numerous drugs, some over several days, all to force her body into labor. To let the 911 dispatcher believe this was some kind of natural birth — leaving out crucial medical information that both emergency responders and emergency room doctors need to know — shows this abortionist to be either deceptive or delusional.”

The diagnosis of preeclampsia also raises serious questions about the state the woman was in when she arrived at the abortion clinic. Did she already have obvious signs of preeclampsia that went undetected or ignored?

Abortion clinics are also not prepared for life-threatening emergencies, which preeclampsia can quickly become. If this woman had any signs of the condition, shouldn’t she have been sent to the emergency room rather than endure a high-risk abortion procedure in an ill-equipped (and unregulated) ambulatory center?

The second Hopeless emergency: “Bleeding after, um, a delivery”

On February 19, just two months later, a second 911 call was made, this time for a 36-year-old woman experiencing “heavy vaginal bleeding” after an abortion.

Once more, the Hope Clinic staffer doesn’t say “abortion.” When the 911 dispatcher asks for details about the emergency, the staffer begins tripping over her words — almost as if she is reading from a script she isn’t used to yet:

“Um, the patient is experience heavy — experiencing heavy vaginal bleeding after, um, a delivery and needs immediate emergency transfer to the hospital for obstetrical services.”

The 911 dispatcher asks how long ago she “delivered.” The staffer replies, “She delivered about three hours ago.” What she delivered, tragically, would have been her dead child, and only after a course of numerous drugs — none of which is indicated to the dispatcher despite being medically crucial information in a life-threatening situation.

On the computer-aided dispatch reports, both 911 calls were designated “Priority 1A” which usually indicates the highest level of urgency for emergency response. And, in fact, even the Hope Clinic staffer in the February call requested lights and sirens.

“Abortion clinics are known for requesting no lights and sirens,” says Newman. “If this abortion worker asked for the lights and sirens to actually be used, it would indicate to us a very serious situation. And yet, the staffer still withheld possibly life-saving information about what was really going on — an abortion, not a natural delivery. The difference in those two scenarios is monumental.”

Babies born alive

When a baby in the womb grows too large and too developed to make dismemberment abortions possible, an induction abortion is often performed.

During this brutal type of abortion, which can take 3 to 4 days to complete, a lethal dose of the heart medication Digoxin is injected into the baby’s heart or into the amniotic fluid, causing the baby to have a fatal heart attack. Next, other drugs are administered to begin contractions, induce labor, and force the mother’s body to deliver her now dead child.

However, there is strong evidence that some of these babies are born alive, surviving the lethal medication and the forced delivery. Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen are two abortionists whose own employees exposed the regular murder of nearly full-grown infants after they were born alive. Gosnell stabbed babies in the base of the skull, while Karpen twisted the heads of babies, breaking the neck.

“There is nothing stopping the abortionists at Hope Clinic Chicago from killing babies born alive during these late-term abortions,” says Newman. “No regulatory process is in place, no inspections are being done — no one is checking on these clinics, and every abortion worker knows it. Documented evidence has shown us again and again that abortion clinics have no qualms about breaking the law. How much more evil will they do when absolutely no laws are in place to hold them accountable?”

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, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.