Planned Parenthood has chosen to endorse Teresa Dannaway (D) for Arkansas House District 83, according to its website.
Planned Parenthood also recently endorsed Cortney McKee (D) for Arkansas House District 85.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and a major proponent of transgender ideology. The organization has a history of endorsing and donating to candidates who share its values.
For example, in 2020 Planned Parenthood Federation announced it would spend at least $45 million in an effort to unseat pro-life lawmakers and elect pro-abortion candidates.
Above: Planned Parenthood’s facility in Rogers, Arkansas. Planned Parenthood often lists job openings for this location on its website. However, the facility does not appear to be hiring new staff at this time.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains does not appear to be hiring in Arkansas or Oklahoma at this time, and it has very few job listings posted in Missouri and Kansas.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and the organization’s regional affiliate — Planned Parenthood Great Plains — routinely posts job openings online for its facilities throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas.
It’s common for Planned Parenthood to list openings for positions such as CNA’s or office staff at its facilities in Little Rock, Rogers, Tulsa, or Oklahoma City. But right now, the only staff openings Planned Parenthood Great Plains seems to have are a few positions in the Kansas City area and in Wichita, Kansas.
This is the first time Family Council can recall in recent years that Planned Parenthood Great Plains did not have a single job opening listed in Arkansas or Oklahoma. This comes on the heels of Planned Parenthood’s announcement that it is closing and consolidating facilities in Missouri.
It may sound like good news that Planned Parenthood is closing facilities and apparently not hiring staff, but it’s important to remember that the organization still has abortion facilities within driving distance of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Even if the organization is not hiring staff in Arkansas or Oklahoma, it may still perform abortions on women from those states.
All of this underscores what we have said for years: It’s important to prohibit abortion through legislation — as Arkansas and other states have done. But we need to eliminate the demand for abortion as well.
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Above: Planned Parenthood’s new abortion facility in Southeast Kansas, less than 30 minutes from Missouri and 90 minutes from Arkansas. The center presumably will promote abortion to women from out-of-state.
News reports indicate Planned Parenthood is consolidating its facilities in Missouri.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and its regional affiliate Planned Parenthood Great Plains is responsible for its facilities in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Now that Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma have generally prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother, the organization has opened a new abortion facility in southeast Kansas, and it intends to close its facility in Joplin, Missouri — just north of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The St. Louis Business Journal reports the Joplin facility will close January 1. Planned Parenthood also intends to shutter two facilities in the St. Louis area in November. The organization reportedly will focus on “telehealth services,” and it will refer women to its new abortion facility in southeast Kansas.
Planned Parenthood also maintains abortion facilities in Illinois that can target the St. Louis area. So while the organization may be closing and consolidating facilities in Missouri, it appears Planned Parenthood will continue promoting abortion throughout the region.
All of this underscores what we have said for years: It’s important to prohibit abortion through legislation, but we need 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 across state lines for abortions.
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