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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