Planned Parenthood Facility in Kansas Performs Abortions Mostly on Women From Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
A news report from NPR showcases how Planned Parenthood’s new facility in Kansas is marketing abortion to women from Arkansas.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion-provider, and the organization owns facilities in Little Rock and Rogers. However, Arkansas’ good, pro-life laws generally prevent those facilities from performing abortions.
But over the summer Family Council learned Planned Parenthood had secretly acquired a facility in Pittsburg, Kansas — a town of some 20,000 residents — within driving distance of Northwest Arkansas.
The new location in Southeast Kansas opened in August. At the time, Family Council and others expressed concerns that the facility would make it easier for Planned Parenthood to promote abortions regionally to women in states that all have very strong, pro-life laws.
Now NPR is reporting how Planned Parenthood is using its newest facility to perform abortions on women from Arkansas writing,
Among the approximately 150 patients who secure abortion appointments [at the Pittsburg abortion facility] each month, Kansans and Missourians make up less than a fifth combined. The vast majority come from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Abortion hurts women, and it ends the lives of unborn children. Its risks and its consequences are deathly serious.
Planned Parenthood’s decision to operate this new, regional abortion facility shows its goal is to perform abortions on women throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas.
We believe women and families deserve better than abortion. It’s important to prohibit abortion through legislation, but we need to work to eliminate the demand for abortion as well.
One way Arkansans can do that is by supporting pro-life organizations that empower women with real options besides abortion.
Arkansas is home to more than 60 organizations that assist pregnant women — including some 45 pregnancy resource centers that help women with unplanned pregnancies.
The State of Arkansas recently voted to award $2 million in grants to pregnancy-help organizations for the 2024-2025 budget cycle.
That money is going to help a lot of women and children in the coming months — and hopefully it will encourage women not to travel to states like Kansas for abortions.
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What is The Most Well Known Scripture Verse?
If you asked the people at your church, “What is the most well known passage of scripture in America?” most might say it’s John 3:16.
But the answer might actually be Luke 2:8-14. Here is why:
In the summer of 1965 television executives approached Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts, about writing, drawing, and animating a Charlie Brown and Snoopy Christmas TV special.
Schultz and his team finished the Christmas cartoon a week and a half before the broadcast date. Most of the production team believed the special would be a complete disaster. They didn’t like the music, the storyline, or the message at the end.
Television executives even said they would have canceled the program had their TV schedule allowed it.
On December 9, 1965, an estimated 15.5 million homes tuned in to watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It has aired every December since.
The simple story is part of what makes this Christmas special so endearing. Charlie Brown searches for the true meaning of Christmas. The answer finally comes when Linus van Pelt recites Luke 2:8-14:
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Because of the Charlie Brown Christmas special, Luke 2:8-14 may be the most widely heard passage of scripture from the entire Bible. It certainly is the most widely broadcasted in the history of television. For nearly six decades, millions of children and adults have heard these words each December.
You can watch Linus recite this famous passage of scripture by clicking here.
This December, may you and your family take time to remember “what Christmas is all about.” Thank you for your friendship and support to Family Council and the Education Alliance.
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