An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney served a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a Nebraska woman who suffered three seizures and nearly died Aug. 17 after undergoing an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Lincoln.
According to the complaint, physicians at a local hospital who performed an emergency hysterectomy on the woman hours later in order to save her life stated that they had never before seen such extensive wounds to a uterus and surrounding tissues.
“Women should fully know about the dangers of abortion — that it’s not just a baby’s life that’s at stake. Our client doesn’t want this horror to happen to anyone else. She believes that women have the right to know that they could be risking their lives,” said lead counsel and ADF-allied attorney Jefferson Downing. “If not for the heroic work of the paramedics and the physicians at the hospital, this woman could have hemorrhaged to death.”
According to the complaint, 40-year-old “Jane Roe” was about 10 weeks pregnant when she went to the clinic. As soon as the abortion began, the woman says she cried out in pain, told the Planned Parenthood staff that something was terribly wrong, and pleaded for the abortion to be stopped. According to the lawsuit, the abortionist refused and ordered his staff to forcibly hold the woman down while he continued with the procedure.
