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Planned Parenthood to Open Abortion Facility Strategically Located Near Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma Borders

Jun 5, 2024Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

On May 14, Planned Parenthood Great Plains announced it intends to open an abortion facility less than 90 minutes from Northwest Arkansas this fall.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest performer of abortions. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision reversing Roe v. Wade, Arkansas began enforcing its pro-life laws prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother — prompting Planned Parenthood to stop aborting unborn children in Arkansas.

Planned Parenthood’s new facility reportedly will be located in Pittsburg, Kansas, where it will perform chemical abortions using the RU-486 regimen and surgical abortions that dismember the unborn child.

Some 405 women from Arkansas had abortions in Kansas during 2022. Right now, abortion facilities in Kansas are primarily concentrated in the northeast and central areas of the state. Opening a facility in southeast Kansas — near the borders with Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri — will make it easier for Planned Parenthood to promote abortion to women from out of state.

All of this underscores what we have said in the past: 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.

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

Louisiana Legislature Upholds Life and Women’s Health: Guest Column

Jun 5, 2024John StonestreetAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The Louisiana state legislature has passed a bill that would add mifepristone and misoprostol, the two pills in the chemical abortion regimen, to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances. The law, which passed the legislature 69-24, would require that pills for chemical abortion be stored in special facilities and doctors to have a special license to prescribe them.

Abortion activists have responded to the bill by claiming that this will lead to significant harm. However, the opposite is true. Passing this bill will save the lives of countless preborn children and preserve women’s health.

Activists claim chemical abortion is a safe choice for women, but the FDA’s own label notes that approximately 1 in 25 women who take the drugs have an emergency room visit. Other studies have found that one in five women who take the pill report an adverse event, and that rates of complications are four times higher for chemical abortion than with surgical abortion.

The truth about chemical abortion is available. And it’s not good.

Group Releases Video Calling Late Term Abortion a “Made Up” Idea

Jun 4, 2024Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Abortion Amendment, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

On Monday the group Arkansans for Limited Government posted a YouTube video titled “Why late term abortions aren’t a thing.”

The video’s purpose is to “talk about some of the lies that are being spread about the Arkansas Abortion Amendment.”

The only “lie” the video discusses is whether or not late term abortions actually occur, alleging that “late term abortion” is “a made up term.”

You can watch the video below.

Arkansans for Limited Government is circulating petitions to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the ballot this November.

If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would allow thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.

It includes sweeping health exceptions that would permit abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

The measure would prevent the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy.

The amendment also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by writing abortion into the constitution and changing Amendment 68 that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

Family Council has produced an educational video explaining what the abortion amendment would mean for Arkansas, if passed. You can watch it below.