Death by PP Abortion
By Lynda Keck, PPCFL Treasurer
Medical facility? Women’s healthcare? Family planning? All phrases designed to mollify the public into thinking Planned Parenthood is safe. Safe for our teens, college students, working women, and others who go there seeking answers about unplanned pregnancies? NO! For babies, it is a tragic and brutal ending. And for 18-year-old Lexi Arguello, it meant a cruel, painful death.
On February 26, 2025, Lexi suffered catastrophic complications during a second-trimester abortion. Lexi was 21 weeks and 6 days into her pregnancy. Planned Parenthood delayed calling 911 and asked that the ambulance arrive without lights or sirens before transferring Lexi to EMTs. She was pronounced dead a few hours later.
The tragedy was not immediately examined publicly or followed by changes at the facility; instead, it was concealed. Only after a Colorado judge ordered the coroner to release Lexi’s unredacted autopsy did the public learn that her death was primarily caused by disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), a catastrophic clotting disorder that developed after the procedure and led to cardiovascular collapse and multi-organ failure.
A probable amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), a rare and often fatal emergency that can occur during invasive abortion procedures, also contributed to her death. It took a coordinated effort by several agencies and attorney Tim Goddard to bring the truth to light more than a year later, on April 27, 2026. Operation Rescue, Life Legal Defense Foundation, and Goddard fought to compel Coroner Hanks to release the documents through a court order. Although the full autopsy stated, “It is my opinion that Alexis Lynn Arguello died of complications of surgical pregnancy termination,” Hanks fought to keep the records from the public.
Clearly, there is a dangerous lack of oversight of abortion facilities in Colorado. If this had been a rare occurrence, one could question the skill of a single practitioner… however, records now show more medical disasters at this very clinic.
Operation Rescue brought this stark reality to light in March of 2026 when it reported on two back-to-back medical emergencies taking place that month – March 4th and March 11th. The first was coded as life-threatening, and the second involved hemorrhaging of an estimated 400 cc of blood. In addition, a recent investigation was launched into a 911 call for a suspected abortion related medical emergency at a motel only 6 miles from the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood facility.
These are just a few stories from the last year in our home state of Colorado. A quick internet search will show that other states with these butcher shops are experiencing similar horrors and coverups. In our next article, we will reveal how women are also suffering from the “care” they are receiving when choosing the abortion pill. Stay tuned.