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Lakisha Wilson died in an Ohio abortion facility.

COLUMBUS, OH, May 28, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life laws have shuttered almost 50 percent of Ohio's abortion clinics since 2011. However, a new report shows that the measures came too late for dozens of women, whose ill treatment by abortion clinics in the state led to injury and, in at least one case, death.

According to Operation Rescue's Cheryl Sullenger, who authored the report, she received “unsolicited” documents “in an official Ohio Department of Health envelope.”

“All that was in the envelope was a CD. When I opened up the CD, there were these documents” that led to the report, she tells LifeSiteNews.

And in those documents is evidence that what happened in Ohio “is just a microcosm of the dangers that exist at abortion clinics throughout the nation,” according to Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

Black abortions far outweigh population ratio

In the report, Sullenger says that “51.7 percent of abortions were done on whites while 42.4 percent were done on blacks” in 2013.

“However, when [the six] counties where abortion facilities are considered, with the exception of Summit County, a larger percentage of blacks received abortions than whites, with the largest disparity in Cuyahoga County where 63 percent of residents receiving abortions were black, while only 27 percent of white residents received abortions.”

“Overall, 83.2 percent of the total Ohio population is white and whites receive 51.7 percent of all abortions,” Sullenger says. “In comparison, blacks comprise 12.5 percent of Ohio’s population, but receive 42.4 percent of all abortions done in that state.”

Ohio's trend is similar to that of the United States as a whole. Approximately 13 percent of Americans are black, while at least 30 percent of the nation's abortions are performed on black babies.

All of Ohio's six counties with abortion clinics saw black abortions take place at rates twice that of their ratio of each county's population.

Unsanitary and unsafe conditions harm women

Alleged safety violations and injuries to mothers fill the documents cited and linked by Sullenger. In one case, a woman attempted to abort her 21-week-old child. Sullenger says that “the abortion had to be stopped, according to the anesthesiologist’s notes, due to heavy bleeding. The patient was transported to an unknown hospital where the rest of the baby’s remains were removed.”

“It was estimated that the patient lost three pints of blood,” Sullenger writes, citing the notes. “An Ohio Department of Health investigator noted that the abortionist’s notations on the patient’s medical records were illegible.”

A state document in Sullenger's report shows that a different facility, Bedford Health Center, received an advance letter of a $2,500 fine for violating numerous state standards related to a cleaning contract, documentation violations, and for violating policies related to employees — among many other violations.

Multiple women saw “perforated” uteri across the state, including “a 25-year-old patient who was 10 weeks pregnant.” The woman was brought to a hospital, where a “fair amount” of “products of conception” were removed due to the forced stoppage of the abortion.

“During an 11-month period between January 25 and November 5, 2012, there were 18 recorded post-abortion complications at” East Columbus Women's Center, Sullenger reports.

These include “eight incomplete medication abortions that required further treatment or surgery, five incomplete surgical abortions that required an additional surgical procedure, one undefined complication that required a D&C procedure, one instance of excessive blood in the uterus after an abortion, and one undefined emergency that required hospitalization.”

All told, Sullenger's report documents that 47 abortions were “botched,” and caused varying levels of harm to women at the abortion clinics.

Woman dies at abortion clinic

It is not just unborn children who died in the hands of Ohio's abortionists. Sullenger's documentation includes the story of Lakisha Wilson, whose 2014 death at an abortion clinic was widely reported by the pro-life movement.

“During [Wilson's] abortion, Wilson began to [show] signs of distress, but abortionist Lisa Perriera completed the abortion before treating Wilson when she stopped breathing and suffered cardiac arrest,” Sullenger writes. “Perriera applied an ill-fitting pediatric oxygen mask to Wilson and used the defibrillator once, but failed to restart her heart. A call to 911 was finally placed, but by then, Wilson was not breathing at all.”

Wilson's death seven days later has been blamed, in part, on “a malfunctioning elevator” at Preterm that delayed the arrival of paramedics.

“When they were finally able to reach Wilson, she was lying on the abortion table with her feet still in the stirrups, but there was no pulse or respiration and her pupils were fixed and dilated,” Sullenger says. “Paramedics were able to restart her heart and begin proper oxygenation, but were prevented from intubating her because the elevator could not accommodate the gurney in the laying position, which was required for intubation.”

Both the Ohio Medical Board and the Ohio Department of Health investigated Preterm, but did not take action against either the abortionist or the facility.

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According to Sullenger, “the Ohio Department of Health’s own documents paint a dismal picture of abortion safety, or lack thereof, in Ohio. Dangerous conditions and substandard practices are tolerated or downright ignored by the department, which is tasked with the duty to protect the public.” While the Operation Rescue report praises the Ohio State Department for taking “steps to enforce some licensing requirements,” it also says that a lack of inspection and “inexplicable delays in annual license renewals” allow “unsafe facilities to continue operations.”

“The Ohio Department of Health must amend its procedures in order to keep an annual schedule of renewals and act swiftly to shut down those that cannot or will not comply with renewal requirements,” Sullenger concludes.

Sullenger tells LifeSiteNews that “there is no doubt in my mind that these are official documents.”

Anonymous tips “happen, but never to this scale,” she explains. “There were hundreds of documents.”

An official with the Ohio Department of Health tells LifeSiteNews that, while it refuses to comment on the documents' origin, “they appear to be the types of documents that anyone could obtain through a public records request.”