Planned Parenthood botched abortion, killed woman and tried to cover it up

Lexi Arguello, 

If there’s one thing the abortion lobby and its media stenographers hate more than transparency, it’s transparency that wrecks the narrative. That’s why officials in Colorado were apparently working overtime to keep details about 18-year-old Lexi Arguello’s death under wraps after a second-trimester abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins.

A newly unredacted autopsy report, obtained by the pro-life groups Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation, confirms that Ms. Arguello died from complications related to the botched abortion procedure.

The county coroner tried to keep the abortion details redacted, citing “Colorado’s strong public policy in favor of protecting reproductive healthcare [sic],” because apparently the public learning what actually happened might make women think twice. Can’t have that. A judge, however, ordered the records released because laws are still occasionally a thing.

According to the Larimer County coroner’s report, Arguello “died of complications of surgical pregnancy termination, including disseminated intravascular coagulation,” which is a severe and potentially deadly blood-clotting disorder. The report also listed “probable amniotic fluid embolism, refractory shock, and multiorgan failure” as “significant contributing conditions.”

Arguello was nearly 22 weeks pregnant when she underwent a D&E dismemberment abortion at the Planned Parenthood facility in Fort Collins. After the procedure, she reportedly developed low blood pressure and a rapid heartbeat while in recovery.

D&E stands for Dilation and Extraction in which the cervix is softened and dilated over hours or days with medications (e.g., misoprostol). Then evacuation is done using anesthesia (local, sedation or general), then vacuum aspiration is done to remove amniotic fluid and some baby tissue, followed by forceps or other instruments to extract the remainder of the baby's body and placenta tissue. Ultrasound guidance is often used.

In many D&E cases (especially later in the second trimester), the fetus is removed in parts ("piecemeal") because it is too large to pass intact through the dilated cervix. This involves grasping and removing limbs, torso sections, or other parts.

Last year, SBA Pro-Life America reported disturbing details from Lexi’s grandparents:

“According to Lexi’s grandparents, instead of calling for an ambulance immediately, Fort Collins Planned Parenthood admitted they waited too long to call for help and they specifically requested no sirens on the ride to the hospital.”

Nothing says “trust the experts” quite like allegedly delaying emergency care and asking the ambulance crew to keep things quiet.

Despite receiving a blood transfusion, Arguello died at the hospital on February 6, 2025.

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser responded to the report:

“Lexi Arguello’s autopsy is definitive: Another young mom has been killed by abortion and Planned Parenthood. Arguello’s death isn’t just a tragedy, it is a pattern of callousness on the part of America’s largest abortion business. Even The New York Times now admits Planned Parenthood provides shoddy so-called ‘care’ and harms women, on top of ending a record 434,000 unborn lives in a single year. Pro-life laws protect unborn children and women, but the Big Abortion industry doesn’t care about babies or mothers – they care about their profits. How many more victims are out there, whose names we do not even know, thanks to officials like the coroner who are more concerned about running cover than letting the truth come out?”

She also pointed directly at Colorado’s abortion laws and Democratic leadership:

“Colorado’s extreme all-trimester abortion laws allowed this to happen. Under Democrat Governor Jared Polis, Colorado is one of nine states and D.C. that have no limits on abortion at any point in pregnancy. In any of these locations, the barbaric late-term dismemberment abortion that killed Lexi and her baby is 100% legal today. At almost 22 weeks, unborn babies respond to sound like mom or dad’s voice, feel pain, and may even survive outside the womb – and as longtime Colorado abortionist Warren Hern knew well, most abortions regardless of gestational age involve healthy babies and healthy moms. Women, however, are at significantly more risk of dying in late-term abortions. If that wasn’t enough, just weeks after Lexi’s death, Colorado Democrats passed a law forcing taxpayers to pay for even more abortions in Medicaid and in health coverage for children.”

Dannenfelser finished with a call for federal action:

“This is a national disgrace that calls for national leadership and solutions. Abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood don’t deserve a dime of taxpayer dollars. We thank House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for their work to defund [JD1]Big Abortion in reconciliation. We also strongly support legislation in Congress to ensure that dangerous, inhumane dismemberment abortions cannot happen anywhere in our great nation. In America, where you live should not determine whether you live.”

And to think, Planned Parenthood still receives taxpayer money to end lives, both legally and incompetently.

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