Planned Parenthood Facility in Kansas Performs Abortions Mostly on Women From Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

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Above: Planned Parenthood’s new abortion facility in Southeast Kansas is performing abortions primarily 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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Planned Parenthood Asks Court to Strike Missouri’s Pro-Life Laws Under New Abortion Amendment

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On Tuesday, voters in Missouri narrowly passed an amendment writing abortion into the Missouri Constitution. On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood filed a sweeping lawsuit challenging virtually all of Missouri’s good, pro-life laws.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and the organization consistently opposes policies that protect women and unborn children from abortion.

Wednesday’s lawsuit challenges Missouri’s many pro-life measures, including the state’s good laws that:

  • Prohibit abortion except to save the life of the mother
  • Require abortionists to give women information about abortion’s risks, consequences, and alternatives
  • Require abortionists to give women 72 hours to consider all options before an abortion
  • Protect unborn children from being aborted due to their race or sex or due to being at risk for Down Syndrome
  • Require abortion facilities to be licensed and inspected by the state
  • Require abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges in case the woman experiences complications from abortion
  • Outline how abortion data is recorded and reported to the state for statistical purposes
  • Prohibit telemed abortions in Missouri
  • Prevent healthcare professionals other than doctors from performing abortions
  • Require abortionists to maintain various plans and agreements for handling abortion complications

This is not the first time pro-abortion groups have challenged commonsense abortion regulations in court. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU challenged reasonable pro-life laws in Ohio after an abortion amendment passed in that state last year.

Informed-consent requirements and facility inspection standards protect women from dangerous abortion practices, but those are the kinds of laws pro-abortion groups are challenging in court.

It does not seem likely that Missouri voters want unreported abortions happening in unlicensed facilities, but the state is facing that possibility now that this abortion amendment has passed.

It’s worth pointing out that Arkansas’ pro-life laws are very similar to Missouri’s — meaning that an abortion amendment in Arkansas likely would jeopardize the very same good laws.

All of this serves as a warning about what can happen when states write sweeping, pro-abortion language into their state constitutions.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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Planned Parenthood Reports No Campaign Activity in Arkansas First Three-Quarters of 2024

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On Tuesday Planned Parenthood’s political action committee in Arkansas filed reports with the Secretary of State showing no campaign activity in Arkansas from January through September.

Political action committees typically issue campaign endorsements and donate money to candidates and political causes.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and so far this year Planned Parenthood has endorsed two candidates running for the Arkansas House of Representatives. However, the abortion giant reportedly has not donated any money to candidates in the state.

Planned Parenthood has a history of using its political action committee to campaign for candidates in Arkansas who share its values.

In 2020 Planned Parenthood Federation announced it would spend at least $45 million working to unseat pro-life lawmakers and elect candidates who support abortion. As part of that plan, the group used its PAC to support candidates for state and federal office in Arkansas.

However, since then, Planned Parenthood has been quiet in Arkansas. Right now the group’s PAC has a little less than $11,600 at its disposal.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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