Three medical emergencies in a week
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First
At around 7 p.m. CST on November 3, 2023, a worker from The Hope Clinic for Women (HCW) called 911 to report that a 35-year-old woman was “possibly” having “like a seizure” and requested an ambulance to have the patient taken to Barnes Jewish Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center in Missouri “for observation.”
Since the actual condition and other important details are not mentioned by the caller, even though they should be reported during any regular 911 call, potential causes for these seizures are not clear and can only be supposed. One potential cause, according to the medical news portal Medscape, could be incorrect administration of local anesthesia, specifically called “accidental intravascular injection of anesthetic.” Another potential cause could involve bleeding resulting from injury such as uterine perforation.
Second
The caller stated a 40-year-woman was having some “extra bleeding” due to “uterine inflammation.” No explanation was given concerning the reason the woman was bleeding. When the EMS dispatcher asked about her condition, the caller said “She is currently stable but still needs to go [by ambulance to the Emergency Room].”
The fact that emergency crews were requested means this was not normal bleeding that HCW could control and required a specialist care facility with surgeons on staff 24 hours a day.
The most frequent cause for “extra bleeding,” or hemorrhage, in abortion procedures is uterine perforation. This is a serious and often life-threatening injury.
Third
Two days later, at 5:15 p.m.on November 9, 2023, EMS was called again from HCW. This time the caller requested transfer of a 21-year-old woman to the emergency room at Jewish Barnes Hospital. This is, without any doubt, the most ambiguous call out of the three emergencies mentioned in this report, and it is not the first time callers of this dangerous facility has used the term “status post procedure.” What such clouded terminology means is certainly a mystery, and it could enshroud numerous life-threatening situations or even death.
What is unmistakable is the fact that this woman was in serious danger. The caller requested ACLS or Advanced Cardiac Life Support equipment for the woman. Such equipment is only used in life-or-death situations when the heart is suffering or malfunctioning, and the patient is at risk of cardiac arrest or a heart attack. No other details were revealed by the caller, and it remains unknown whether this woman survived.
Regardless of how one feels about abortion, I think it's safe to say that these three incidents at a facility with no ability to treat complications should come under scrutiny.
If I had to guess, the "seizure" case is likely an intravascular injection of a local anesthetic - probably lidocaine. This can be fatal.
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By the way, I've seen lidocaine-induced seizures (or close to it) and it's scary.
OTOH, if the abortionist used Marcaine (bupivicaine) that could be much much worse because Marcaine has a tendency to bind to cardiac muscle/conduction fibers causing very difficult-to-treat arrhythmias.
