An abortionist in the United States has been accused of medical negligence after he allegedly left half of an aborted baby’s body parts inside the mother whose uterus was later found to be perforated.
The lawsuit alleges that Dr Keith Reisinger-Kindle left half of the remains of the unborn baby inside the mother after an abortion 2023 in the US state of Illinois.
“It should have been obvious that fetal parts were left behind” had Dr Reisinger-Kindle “performed an adequate exam of the remains”, stated an independent medical report that was filed as part of the lawsuit.
The mother’s unborn baby was aborted at around 22 weeks gestation. When she later reported severe cramps, she was told to take Tylenol and laxatives.
After she checked herself in to an emergency room, it was discovered that parts of her unborn baby remained inside her, and surgery was urgently required to remove them.
A hole the size of a coin was also found in her uterus that had seemingly been punctured during the abortion. It is also alleged that Dr Reisinger-Kindle refused to answer questions from the woman’s surgeons who removed the aborted body parts.
Before the lawsuit was filed, Dr Reisinger-Kindle was interviewed by a Chicago newspaper in which he said: “You have to keep people safe… Your staff and your patients should be safe. Nothing else matters.”
Dr Reisinger-Kindle complained about a lack of abortion training, which he had been coaching since he was a medical assistant at the age of 18. “The only reason I went to medical school was to be an abortion provider”, he said.
His Equity Clinic, where the woman’s abortion took place, is also used to train medical students to perform abortions. Over 60% of abortions at Dr Reisinger-Kindle’s facility take place in the second trimester (over 13 weeks).
The risks of retained aborted baby parts are potentially very serious, including cramps, bleeding and infection that can lead to sepsis. The “retained products of conception” can also occur due to incomplete chemical abortions.
In 2022, an American woman named Amber Thurman died after she developed acute severe sepsis brought on by taking the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol.
Abortion complications remain underreported in the UK, though Lord Moylan’s Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill proposes to establish an annual report that would provide more accurate abortion risk data.
A one-off 2023 study found that post-abortion medical complications were much higher than official statistics had previously shown. By combining independent providers’ data with NHS follow-up data, the number of abortion complications – such as cervical tears and sepsis – trebled.
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