A medical negligence lawsuit was filed in Champaign County against the founder and lead provider at the Equity Clinic in Champaign.
The lawsuit was filed by a Jane Doe from Indiana, and both Equity Clinic and it’s founder Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle as defendants. The lawsuit alleges that Reisinger-Kindle perforated Doe’s uterus during an abortion procedure and left half of the aborted fetus inside Doe.
Doe was one of many who traveled to Illinois from other states to get an abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. While she was granted anonymity in all legal documents, court documents said Doe was 22 weeks pregnant, and had been pregnant five times prior. Four were carried to delivery, and one ended in a miscarriage.
She traveled to Equity Clinic in Champaign on April 1st, 2023. She returned on April 2nd for the procedure. The court case cited notes from Dr. Reisinger-Kindle, who was the doctor in charge of her case. The lawsuit said that his notes detailed a clean procedure in which the full fetus was allegedly removed.
The next day Doe started to experience complications, according to the court documents. She was experiencing heavy cramping, and called the clinic. After multiple calls, the clinic told her to try ibuprofen and then a laxative. When both didn’t work, she was advised to go to an emergency room, according to the court documents.
The timeline laid out in the court documents shows that she went to Community Hospital in Indianapolis. During an exploratory laparotomy, doctors discovered that Doe had “half of a pre-born deceased human being” in her pelvis.