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Family Council Obtains Documents Showing Planned Parenthood in Pulaski County Public Schools

Apr 13, 2021Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Arkansas Legislature, Sex Ed

*A screenshot from the documents outlining some of the topics Planned Parenthood covers with students.*

Last month Family Council sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) asking for communications between Planned Parenthood employees and school district employees.

PCSSD includes public schools in Pulaski County outside of Little Rock.

In response, the Pulaski County Special School district sent Family Council 1,395 pages of redacted email correspondences, attachments, and other documents revealing that Planned Parenthood has been active in multiple central Arkansas public schools over the past several years.

In particular, the emails reveal that Planned Parenthood’s Education and Outreach coordinator gave a series of presentations at Sylvan Hills High School in 2018 and again in 2019.

The coordinator was invited back to give lectures at the school in 2020, but the coronavirus outbreak—coupled with the coordinator at Planned Parenthood changing jobs—apparently put a halt to that.

Planned Parenthood conducted similar presentations at Fuller Middle School in 2015, Mills High School in 2016, and Joe T. Robinson in 2018 or 2019.

The documents also show that Planned Parenthood communicated extensively with the counselor at Maumelle High School, and that Planned Parenthood may have conducted activities at Cloverdale Middle School and McClellan High School over the past few years.

All of this underscores why new legislation like H.B. 1592 is so important.

H.B. 1592 is a good bill by Rep. Mark Lowery (R – Maumelle) that prohibits public schools in Arkansas from working with abortion providers.

H.B. 1592 will help make sure Planned Parenthood and other abortionists don’t continue to have access to our state’s public schools.

H.B. 1592 is currently before the Senate Education Committee.

Read H.B. 1592 Here.

Read all 1,395 pages of documents from the PCSSD here.

Read a few excerpts from the documents here.

Senate Committee Passes Pro-Life Resolution

Apr 13, 2021Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Arkansas Legislature

On Monday the Senate Public Health Committee passed H.C.R. 1007.

This good resolution by Rep. Jim Wooten (R – Beebe) and Sen. Jason Rapert (R – Conway) recognizes January 22 — the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade abortion decision — as “The Day of Tears” in Arkansas.

Alabama passed a similar resolution last month.

H.C.R. 1007 acknowledges the 61 million of unborn babies killed in abortion in America over the past five decades, and encourages Arkansans to lower their flags to half-staff on January 22 to mourn the innocent children who have lost their lives.

Read The Resolution Here.

Arkansas Legislature Passes Bill That Will Help Protect Victims of Botched Abortions

Apr 12, 2021Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Arkansas Legislature

*Rep. Bentley presents S.B. 527 to the Arkansas House of Representatives.*

On Monday the Arkansas House of Representatives passed S.B. 527. The bill previously passed the Arkansas Senate with overwhelming support.

This good bill by Sen. Ben Gilmore (R – Crossett) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) requires abortion facilities to have transfer agreements with hospitals, and it fixes a flawed definition in a pro-life law passed in 2019.

S.B. 527 is similar to a Kentucky law that survived a legal challenge.

This is a good bill that will help protect women who are victims of botched abortions. Abortion carries a number of serious risks — including risk of laceration, hemorrhaging, and death.

Legislation like S.B. 527 helps protect women in the event of complications from a dangerous abortion procedure.

The bill now goes to the governor to become law.