Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 5, 2025 / 17:54 pm
The pro-life nonprofit Coalition Life is planning to ramp up its sidewalk counseling initiative at a Planned Parenthood facility in Chicago after a woman was found crying in pain outside of the clinic.
A video shows sidewalk counselor Jacob Tipre observing the woman curled up, leaning against the doorway for the Planned Parenthood Elizabeth Cohn Morris Health Center, which is located in downtown Chicago. The incident occurred Nov. 15 shortly before 4 p.m., according to Coalition Life.
Mary Jane Maharry, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Illinois, told CNA: “We’re not commenting.” Planned Parenthood Federation of America did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A video posted by Coalition Life shows Tipre asking the woman whether she was OK. She responded: “No, I am not.”
“They just do the procedure, and they threw me out on the streets,” the woman said, while crying. “They just threw me out on the streets.”
Brian Westbrook, executive director and founder of Coalition Life, who has been involved in sidewalk counseling for 14 years, told CNA: “This is the most egregious treatment of any woman that I have seen in my history [of doing this].”
Westbrook said the woman called her own ambulance. He said Tipre stayed alongside the woman while she waited for emergency services to arrive because he noticed “her eyes are kind of rolling back in her head and [she was] almost to the point where she was in shock or passing out.”
The video shows the fire department arriving on the street to provide assistance. Tipre waved the personnel over while the woman remained seated in the doorway. The video does not show any Planned Parenthood workers outside the facility with the woman.
The Chicago Police Department confirmed it received an emergency call and did not provide additional information.
Tipre said in the video that he is “still processing this myself” and rebuked Planned Parenthood for “literally treating their own clients as garbage.”
Westbrook said Coalition Life does not have the woman’s contact information and is not able to follow up, but added: “I would be curious to know if Planned Parenthood bothers following up with her at all.”
Westbrook said Coalition Life recently began to offer sidewalk counseling at this location. He said the nonprofit was planning an expansion to this spot and the incident “certainly sparked a certain level of urgency to continue to build the team there.”
Sidewalk counselors wait outside of abortion clinics and offer people information about pro-life alternatives to abortion and medical and financial resources available for those who need them.
Westbrook said there are two life-affirming pregnancy centers that provide pregnancy services to women nearby, where they refer pregnant women: The Women’s Care Center and Aid For Women.
He said Coalition Life and life-affirming pregnancy centers will follow up with women throughout their pregnancies. He said abortion clinics are not required to provide follow-up care in Illinois in spite of complications that can occur.
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Sadly, this is not a unique event. We’ve encountered similar episodes of cold-bloodedness in New York area abortuaries.
Planned Parenthood employees do the work of Satan. We must reach out (especially during Advent and Christmas time) to its employees to let them know of salvation through Jesus Christ. .
Amen, Deacon Edward.
The woman is a crisis actor. This was very obviously staged.
Hmm, any evidence at all to those accusations?
So all the identical events that I have eyewitnessed were staged as well?
Since anti-Catholic Catholics have been slandering pro-lifers for decades, there is a resistence to knowing the truth of what occurs at murder centers, and they refuse to acknowlege the follow up care we give to both turnarounds and those tossed out on the street.
From the Wikipedia entry for “Crisis actor”:
The term has been taken up and used by [conspiracy theorists] who claim that some mass shootings and other terror events are staged for the [advancement of various political objectives], such as to advance gun control measures.
Brackets added for emphasis.
If an ambulance took her to the ER to be examined and treated , that could help confirm her claims. Medical information being private though , they wouldn’t release that to the public.
“They just do the procedure, and they threw me out on the streets,” the woman said, while crying. “They just threw me out on the streets.”
I found that to be a very ironic statement.
I am an avid foe of PP, but this sounds a little bit like a setup.
“They just do the procedure, and they threw me out on the streets,”
Paid assassins are not known for their empathy.
Where is the purported “care” for women who choose to have an abortion? Pro-choice advocates use the euphemism “Reproductive Health Care”, which is a misnomer, as well as a deceptive use of perverted language: there is certainly no reproduction involved when a woman undergoes an abortion, and there is absolutely no care for the baby who is being aborted. Just as bad for the chemical abortions: a “do-it-yourself, at-home” abortion, by taking pills. Where is the “care” for the woman aborting her child, in her own home? She is at risk of hemorrhaging to death on her bathroom floor, and having the traumatic experience of not only seeing the tiny body of her child being ejected from her womb, but having to dispose of it somehow. If she survives all of this, imagine the memory of the experience being engraved in her mind for the remainder of her life. I fail to see the “care” which is promised by the pro-choice advocates and the billion-dollar abortion industry, for either her or her child.
by Marie Brousseau, Author of “Defending Human Dignity: Catholic Answers to Gender, Abortion and Relativity”