The following comes from an April 21 Operation Rescue article by Cheryl Sullenger:

Bakersfield, CA – A recording of a March 31, 2015, 911 call seeking help for an abortion-related medical emergency that was recently obtained by Operation Rescue was anything but routine. [see April 3 California Catholic Daily story].

Instead of a clinic worker or abortionist on the line, this time it was a distraught husband who sought ambulance assistance to transport his 26-year old wife from a Bakersfield, California, abortion facility to the emergency room when she began to suffer respiratory distress after an abortion.

But it was the reaction of the abortion clinic personnel at FPA Women’s Health, formerly known as Family Planning Associates, that was completely inexcusable.

The husband, identified in the recording as “Erik,” told a dispatcher that he believed his wife was suffering an allergic reaction to anesthesia.

“I don’t know what happened in there, but I think the anesthesia — They put so much anesthesia in her and she’s apparently — I’m thinking that she’s allergic to it because this is the second time it’s happened,” he told the dispatcher.

The troubling conversation continued:

911: Okay, you’re telling me you’re not sure what happened, so are you able to go in to her and tell me what happened and ask her?

Caller: You know what? No, I’m not going to go in there because you have to literally check in. They won’t let you in unless — I just walked out of there, okay?
911: Let them know you’re on the phone with 911 and that we need to get next to the patient. If she’s having an emergency, it shouldn’t be an issue.

But it was an issue – a big one.

When he attempted to enter the clinic where his wife was experiencing a medical emergency, he found the door locked. One can clearly hear him knocking on the door, but the clinic workers refused to let him back in even though he explained he was on the line with 911 and that the dispatcher had asked to speak with them.

Caller: Yeah, they don’t want to let me in.

911: You’re not able to get in there?
Caller: Yeah, you guys will deal with it when you get here.

“This man was treated like dirt by the FPA Staff,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue. “Why didn’t the clinic staff call 911? Why did he have to do it? What would have happened to his wife if he hadn’t been there?”

The dispatcher continued to question the man concerning his wife’s condition.

911: Is she completely alert.

Caller: No, she’s not!

911: Does she have difficulty speaking between breaths?
Caller: Yeah, she’s having difficulty speaking.
911: Is she changing color?
Caller: Yeah, she’s pale!

He then goes on to describe how she was “clamping, like her feet and her hands.”

“She’s actually folding her feet, like clamping her wrists, like tightening as a — like, her

fingers are clamping up,” he explained.

Eventually, the woman was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital, but her condition today is not known.

The abortionist was Karen Mann, who has worked in Bakersfield for only about three months. During that time, she has been responsible for a total of three medical emergencies, including this one.

“This 911 call and others we have obtained are glimpses of the truth behind the deceptive ‘women’s reproductive rights’ rhetoric. On one hand, abortionists pretend to care about women, but their actions speak volumes about their callous, uncaring attitudes toward life,” said Newman.