After the abortion, she called the abortionist complaining about cramps, but was told the pain was normal.
By Catholics for Catholics
An Indiana mother who had her uterus punctured by an Illinois abortionist and parts of the remains of her unborn baby left inside her body when she was around 22 weeks pregnant, reached a settlement with him.
Identified in court filings as “Jane Doe” and referred to in some more recent reporting as Hardy, the 32-year-old mother of four filed the lawsuit against Champaign-based Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle and his Equity Clinic in March 2025, contending that she suffered a botched second-trimester abortion at Reisinger-Kindle’s hands in April 2023.
According to a story by the Christian Post, the woman sought damages in excess of $50,000. Doe and Reisinger-Kindle reached a settlement on July 8, 2026, according to the News-Gazette; court records show an agreed motion to dismiss the case was filed July 24 and approved Aug. 3.
The Post reported that according to an expert witness in the case, the woman phoned the clinic the day after the abortion and said she was suffering from cramps. She was told to take pain medications and was promised that this was normal.
“A follow-up call was made about five hours later…[Doe] noted that the ibuprofen was helping some but ‘her bottom has a lot of pressure and it is hard to breathe,’” the document states. “The call was transferred to Dr. Kindle but there are no additional notes documenting his discussion with the patient, if any.”
When the woman called again on April 4, 2023, she said that she had not experienced a bowel movement despite taking two doses of a laxative the night before. The victim’s abdominal cramping had increased due to the laxatives, and she was told to take an enema or visit urgent care or the emergency room.
Upon arrival at the emergency room at Community Hospital in Indianapolis on the same day, doctors removed the remains of Doe’s unborn child and worked to repair her uterus.
“The patient was found to have half of a deceased pre-born human being in the right pelvis of the patient with evidence of severe and intentional trauma,” the operative note states. “The baby’s body was transected at the pelvis with no legs or feet present.”
“Stumps of both femurs extended from the soft tissue of the torso. The upper extremities were missing from the elbow distally on both sides. The skull was crushed and no brain was present. The face was nonrecognizable. … There were small bony fragments in the mother’s pelvis,” the document continues.
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