CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life leaders are warning that Planned Parenthood is attempting to evade pro-life laws in Missouri and Oklahoma by opening a new abortion mill in the Kansas border city of Pittsburg, according to a recent press release posted by Christian News Wire.
Family Council Arkansas and Operation Rescue recently exposed Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ purchase of the building, which it attempted to hide through a string of property investment limited liability companies. Pittsburg is a small college town close to both Missouri and Oklahoma.
David Cox of Family Council Arkansas condemned the move as an attempt to undermine Oklahoma’s and Missouri’s pro-life laws.
“Planned Parenthood’s decision to open this Pittsburg abortion facility shows its goal is to perform abortions on women throughout the Four State Area,” he said in the press release. “Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri have passed good, pro-life laws protecting women and unborn children from abortion. This facility will promote abortion to women from these states.”
According to reports of Operation Rescue and the Charlotte Lozier Institute, in 2022, there were a total of 5,089 babies killed in abortions obtained by women from Missouri and Oklahoma. That number was 41% of the abortions committed in Kansas that year.
“Apparently, that’s not enough carnage for the baby killers at Planned Parenthood,” Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, stated in August. “Sadly, so many people of Kansas welcomed this evil into our state when 59% voted against the pro-life Value Them Both constitutional ballot initiative in 2022.”
In the press release, Newman commented, “It is no surprise that Planned Parenthood is swooping in to guarantee its greedy portion of blood money in Operation Rescue’s home state. After the disastrous failure of the Kansas pro-life amendment in 2022, Kansas is fast becoming an absolute abortion wasteland.”
He pointed out that only this summer, the state’s Supreme Court struck down several long-standing legal protections for the preborn.
“Now, this new Planned Parenthood abortion clinic will prey on vulnerable young adults at the nearby college, as well as undermine voters in neighboring states who had the wisdom and courage to vote in protections for the preborn,” Newman added. “Planned Parenthood hates to let babies live in any state.”
“As the battle to save the lives of preborn children intensifies, Operation Rescue continues to point to Kansas as a desperate warning to other states,” Newman declared. “Planned Parenthood is clearly capitalizing on the shift in politics, using Kansas as a destination to target innocent preborn children in states where they are protected by law.”
In comments to CatholicVote, Newman reiterated that Planned Parenthood is targeting college students and women in states with pro-life protections, adding, “Their presence is unwelcome, and that is exactly why Planned Parenthood officials tried desperately to sneak into the area.”
“The Family Council and Operation Rescue have worked hard to expose these tactics,” he continued:
And now Operation Rescue and other pro-life groups, including Students for Life, are joining hands to bring awareness to the local community, the state of Kansas, and surrounding states. We especially want parents of students to be aware of Planned Parenthood’s tactics to influence their children with wicked ideologies and to potentially destroy the very lives of their grandchildren.
A planned September 10 event highlighted the partnership between Operation Rescue, Family Council Arkansas, and Students for Life of America (SFLA), who planned to hold a joint press conference outside the new abortion facility to raise the alarm concerning the abortion giant’s attempted inroads into pro-life states, according to the press release.
In the press release, William Anderson, the Midwest Regional Coordinator for SFLA, emphasized Planned Parenthood’s strategy of targeting college-age women.
“Ninety-percent of all Planned Parenthood facilities are located within five miles of a college campus, and this new Planned Parenthood abortion business is no different,” Anderson observed in the press release.
The pro-abortion company “is in it for the money, already taking nearly $700 million of taxpayer funds,” he added, “and they have no issue taking it while targeting young and vulnerable women to abort their preborn children to keep the hamster wheel running.”
In February of this year, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued Planned Parenthood, alleging that the organization was trafficking minors from Missouri to Kansas City to obtain abortions without parental consent. He vowed to oppose the abortion giant for what he denounced as direct violations of Missouri law that were undermining state protections for children and the unborn.
