No Investigations, Regulation, or Discipline has Followed
By Sarah Neely
Fort Collins, CO — Earlier this week, Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation made national news after finally obtaining the unredacted autopsy report for Lexi Arguello, a young girl who died from a catastrophic complication after a late-term abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado.
However, Lexi is not the only woman that has fallen victim to Colorado abortion clinics, which are no longer required to be licensed or inspected. Radical abortion policies within the state have resulted in countless injuries, and the intentional lack of oversight coupled with overly redacted public records by city officials means more women may have died — while city and state officials look the other way.
Operation Rescue spent over a year gaining access to Lexi’s unredacted autopsy — a record that the law clearly states must be made available to the public without hidden information. A court order finally forced the Larimer County Coroner to release the full record.
However, even as Operation Rescue fought to discover the truth about Lexi’s tragic death — confirming that she undoubtedly died from abortion complications, which began in an unregulated abortion clinic that also delayed emergency care — ten more women were injured at the same unregulated clinic.
In the months following Lexi’s death, eyewitnesses reported ambulances arriving at the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood numerous times. In every instance, the city heavily redacted 911 records, making them essentially useless to the public but offering obvious cover for the abortion industry.
Most of what Operation Rescue was able to discover came from public dispatch records that city officials were unable to redact or hide:
- February 20, 2025. A 25-year-old woman aborting twins, possibly hypotensive (low blood pressure), required emergency transfer. After arriving at Planned Parenthood, dispatch was told the ambulance was “upgrading to emergent.”
- March 19, 2025. A 27-year-old woman with pain required an emergency transfer.
- April 3, 2025. Dispatch records indicate an “Uncoded Medical” requiring emergency transfer. However, the computer-aided dispatch report labeled the call a “Priority 1 Emergency.” All other meaningful information that should be available to the public was heavily redacted.
- April 4, 2025. Immediately following the April 3 emergency, records indicate a “Charlie Medical” emergency on April 4. A “Charlie Medical” designation indicates a “possibly life-threatening” situation requiring emergency transfer.
- May 15, 2025. A 25-year-old female required emergency transport due to uncontrolled bleeding accompanied by chest pain.
- May 16, 2025. Immediately following the May 15 emergency, a 19-year-old female required transport on May 16 after she experienced an allergic reaction to fentanyl during her procedure. Though the 911 records are heavily redacted, the radio dispatch clearly states this was a “Delta medical” emergency. A “Delta” response code indicates a serious “life-threatening” situation. It is one level below an “imminent death” or “Echo” code.
- January 29, 2026. A 30-year-old woman required emergency transport due to “heavy complications” after an abortion. Like many of the previous emergencies, this incident was also labeled a “Charlie Medical,” meaning “possibly life-threatening.” A secondary code indicated significant hemorrhage or shock.
- March 4, 2026. Records indicate a “Charlie Medical” emergency requiring ambulance transport. Heavily redacted 911 records hid all other information from the public.
- March 11, 2026. A 40-year-old woman experienced “heavy” bleeding following what was described as a “completed abortion.”
- April 10, 2026. A woman returned to the abortion clinic one day after her abortion with possible complications, including bleeding. This emergency was also designated as “Charlie medical.” Operation Rescue is still waiting for the city to provide records.
Not one of these incidents have been investigated as Colorado officials and legislators continue a politically motivated ‘hands-off’ approach to abortion clinics, giving them a free pass that no other type of ambulatory center in the state enjoys. Abortion clinics are the only ambulatory centers that no longer undergo inspections and are no longer required to go through a licensing process. Now the bodies are piling up.
“These are also just the incidents we know about,” says Sarah Neely, Chief Operating Officer of Operation Rescue. “Dedicated citizens were able to observe and report these ambulance sightings, but how many more happen when no one is on the sidewalk? And how many of these women, like Lexi, did not survive their injuries? The city intentionally shrouds the truth of these emergencies in both audio and written redactions, claiming to be protecting patient privacy. What about protecting actual patients?”
No inspections and no licensing process also means no required investigation of the clinic by a state department when something goes wrong. That leaves no public record to indicate to citizens whether a so-called healthcare facility is following regulation and has good providers and protocols, or has a line of dead and injured women in its dangerous wake. For the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood, it is clearly the latter, yet the state has taken no action and women are left in the dark.
Operation Rescue has also investigated numerous emergencies at the Planned Parenthood in Denver. Denver city officials not only heavily redact computer-aided dispatch reports, they also refuse to provide any 911 audio records.
“This is a clear cover up,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Colorado is so devoted to the altar of abortion that it is willing to not only sacrifice babies through all nine months of pregnancy, but the lives of their mothers as well. They would rather let women perish in the same manner Lexi perished before requiring actual accountability from the clinic and staff who killed her. That is not healthcare. That is human sacrifice.”
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