Planned Parenthood Tried to Hide How it Killed Woman in Botched Abortion

A new unredacted autopsy report, obtained by the pro-life groups Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation, confirms 18-year-old Lexi Arguello died from complications of a second-trimester abortion at a Colorado Planned Parenthood.

The county coroner pushed to keep information regarding the abortion redacted from the report, citing “Colorado’s strong public policy in favor of protecting reproductive healthcare [sic]” and arguing that women might be dissuaded from seeking abortions, but was ordered by a judge to release the public records in accordance with the law.

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The Larimer County coroner/medical examiner’s report states that Arguello “died of complications of surgical pregnancy termination, including disseminated intravascular coagulation,” or abnormal blood clotting that can be life-threatening, with “probable amniotic fluid embolism, refractory shock, and multiorgan failure” as “significant contributing conditions.” Arguello was nearly 22 weeks pregnant and underwent a D&E dismemberment abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins. In the recovery room she developed low blood pressure and a rapid heartbeat.

SBA Pro-Life America reported last year:

According to Lexi’s grandparents, instead of calling for an ambulance immediately, Fort Collins Planned Parenthood admitted they waited too long to call for help and they specifically requested no sirens on the ride to the hospital.

Despite receiving a blood transfusion, on February 6, 2025, Arguello died at the hospital.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser reacted to the autopsy report:

“Lexi Arguello’s autopsy is definitive: Another young mom has been killed by abortion and Planned Parenthood. Arguello’s death isn’t just a tragedy, it is a pattern of callousness on the part of America’s largest abortion business. Even The New York Times now admits Planned Parenthood provides shoddy so-called ‘care’ and harms women, on top of ending a record 434,000 unborn lives in a single year. Pro-life laws protect unborn children and women, but the Big Abortion industry doesn’t care about babies or mothers – they care about their profits. How many more victims are out there, whose names we do not even know, thanks to officials like the coroner who are more concerned about running cover than letting the truth come out?

“Colorado’s extreme all-trimester abortion laws allowed this to happen. Under Democrat Governor Jared Polis, Colorado is one of nine states and D.C. that have no limits on abortion at any point in pregnancy. In any of these locations, the barbaric late-term dismemberment abortion that killed Lexi and her baby is 100% legal today. At almost 22 weeks, unborn babies respond to sound like mom or dad’s voice, feel pain, and may even survive outside the womb – and as longtime Colorado abortionist Warren Hern knew well, most abortions regardless of gestational age involve healthy babies and healthy moms. Women, however, are at significantly more risk of dying in late-term abortions. If that wasn’t enough, just weeks after Lexi’s death, Colorado Democrats passed a law forcing taxpayers to pay for even more abortions in Medicaid and in health coverage for children.

“This is a national disgrace that calls for national leadership and solutions. Abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood don’t deserve a dime of taxpayer dollars. We thank House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for their work to defund [JD1]Big Abortion in reconciliation. We also strongly support legislation in Congress to ensure that dangerous, inhumane dismemberment abortions cannot happen anywhere in our great nation. In America, where you live should not determine whether you live.”