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Last April, Planned Parenthood issued their annual report for 2022-2023 showing their affiliates across the country ended nearly 393,000 American lives in one year. The released number put abortions performed by Planned Parenthood in the top three causes of death in the United States for 2022, only after heart disease and cancer.

The annual report does not, however, include the deaths of women who die as a result of an abortion performed by Planned Parenthood. Despite the abortion giant’s best efforts to hide these tragedies by withholding information to dispatchers and telling ambulances who transport patients in dire condition to turn off their sirens, we know the names and stories of some of these mothers.

Here are five women who had their whole lives ahead of them before they were abruptly ended by “reproductive health care services” obtained at Planned Parenthood.

1. Lexi Arguello, Colorado

On February 6, 2025, 18-year-old Lexi went to Planned Parenthood seeking an abortion. She was 22 weeks pregnant – the point in pregnancy babies can survive outside of the womb with NICU care and when late-term abortion puts women in a 76-fold higher risk of mortality.

As reported by Operation Rescue, during the D&E dismemberment abortion, Lexi began experiencing an amniotic fluid embolism – a life-threatening complication which would have warranted an immediate call to emergency services. 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.

At the hospital where the grandparents first learned Lexi had been pregnant, they witnessed doctors doing everything they could to stabilize Lexi. As her vitals and oxygen were unstable, the medical team attempted multiple doses of epinephrine and seven liters of blood. Tragically, their granddaughter’s blood pressure and heart rate dropped, and they lost her.

2. Cree Erwin-Sheppard, Michigan

The mother of a 1-year-old boy, Cree was not proud about going to Kalamazoo Planned Parenthood for an abortion, so she went by herself on June 30, 2016. After the abortion, she experienced persistent, extreme abdominal pain.

“The pain never went away,” Cree’s brother Tyler Sheppard told Live Action. “So she would try to, you know, maybe sleep it off and she was getting worried. And she finally came and told my mom what happened.”

Cree’s mother took her to the emergency room on July 2, where she was kept overnight and then released with pain medication and told to follow up with her provider or Planned Parenthood the next day. The next morning, Cree’s mother found her lying in bed, cold.

In the medical record released by the hospital staff noted, “The patient’s symptoms and work-up results were consistent with an incomplete miscarriage and pelvic pain.” The ultrasound showed “the presence of a clot and/or retained products of conception.”

Sheppard reports that the coroner told his family she had “never seen anybody as mangled as my sister was…. [The hospital] looked at the X-ray and saw her uterus was perforated and that she was bleeding internally. They still sent her home. They made it seem like it was okay, and, ‘just medicate and you should be fine.’ It felt like they were trying to cover up for Planned Parenthood… it felt like they were trying to cover up the abortion… the cause of her death, and I was upset.”

Poignantly, he notes, “I lost two people that day — not just a sister, but a niece or a nephew, as well.”

3. Alyona Dixon, Nevada

Twenty-four-year-old Alyona Dixon had a 9-month-old little boy and a dream to operate a kids’ play center when she found out she was unexpectedly pregnant in the fall of 2022. After she visited a local Planned Parenthood which gave her abortion drugs, she experienced intense abdominal pain. She went for help to St. Rose Dominican’s Blue Diamond campus and the ER at Deseret View Hospital.

A doctor at the hospital noted Alyona was experiencing “abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, severe dehydration, acute renal failure, leukocytosis, sepsis, lactic acidosis, hypokalemia, sinus tachycardia, metabolic acidoses, pulseless electrical activity, respiratory failure.”

Alyona improved at Desert Hospital but then began to deteriorate. A local TV station reported: “As her heart rate elevated to 150 and she had trouble breathing, doctors worked to intubate and sedate her. She vomited during the process and her heart stopped. Attempts to resuscitate her failed, and she was declared dead at 5:32 a.m. on Sept. 28 – just six days after visiting Planned Parenthood. The Clark County Coroner’s Office gave her cause of death as ‘complications from septic abortion.’”

4. Tonya Reaves, Illinois

In July of 2012, 24-year-old Tonya sought an abortion at a Chicago-area Planned Parenthood when she was 16 weeks pregnant. She was engaged to be married and the mother of a 1-year-old boy.

When the abortionist performed a dilation and evacuation abortion dismembering Tonya’s unborn child, they ripped a hole in Tonya’s uterus which caused her to hemorrhage. The abortionist left the placenta and parts of the baby’s body inside the mother’s womb. Staff left Tonya on the table to bleed for five hours before seeking emergency help. By that time, she had lost 30% of her body’s total blood volume. Tonya was transferred to the hospital and lost her life that night.

5. Diana Lopez, California

Diana was 25 years old, single-parenting two children while her husband was in prison, and well into her second trimester when she stepped into a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood. When Diana presented with low hemoglobin levels below the facility’s standards, abortionist Mark Maltzer proceeded with the abortion anyway before Diana was “sufficiently dilated.”

As the lawsuit against Planned Parenthood later summed up, Maltzer “worked so quickly, recklessly and negligently pulling out sharp body parts of Diana Lopez’ 19-20 week-old unborn infant that severe, irreparable damage was done.” In the process, the abortionist tore her cervix and Diana bled to death.

“It was wrong. It was wrong,” said Judy Lopez, Diana’s older sister. “She was healthy. She was fine.”

The Lopez family lawyer stated, “They get the clinics to do all the prep work, then they line the patients up in a cattle call,” he said. “They never see the patient until just before surgery, and then spend five or six minutes with the patient and are on to the next one.”

More Buried Tragedies

The list of women whose lives have been taken by Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses expands far beyond Lexi, Cree, Alyona, Tonya and Diana. It extends to Edrica Goode and Holly Patterson who also lost their lives because of Planned Parenthood, the 250+ names on Life Dynamics’ list of victims, and countless others whose stories have been suppressed.

“Stories like Lexi’s show how women are also killed by dangerous late-term abortions that are entirely legal,” said Katie Glenn Daniel, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s director of legal affairs and policy counsel. “Lexi should have been able to trust that SHE would be prioritized in an emergency that threatened her life, not Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood must be held accountable and completely defunded.”