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Family Council Participates in Joint Press Conference Opposing Planned Parenthood’s Regional Abortion Facility Near Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri

On Tuesday Family Council participated in a joint press conference with Operation Rescue and Students for Life opposing Planned Parenthood’s new regional abortion facility near Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion-provider. The organization owns facilities in Little Rock and Rogers — but those facilities are blocked from performing abortions thanks to Arkansas’ pro-life laws.

However, the Planned Parenthood seems determined to promote abortion to women from Arkansas.

Family Council recently 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 will let Planned Parenthood promote abortions regionally to women in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma — states that all have very strong, pro-life laws.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Family Council’s Assistant Director David Cox delivered the following remarks:

We believe every innocent, human life is sacred from the moment of conception until natural death. Abortion hurts women and families, and it takes the lives of innocent unborn children. That is why we oppose Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.

Pro-lifers in Arkansas are committed to ending abortion by passing pro-life legislation and by supporting women and families. Since 2022, the State of Arkansas’ Pregnancy Resource Center Grant program has distributed $2 million in funding to organizations that provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies. This year, Family Council, Arkansas Right to Life, and other organizations worked with the Arkansas Legislature and Governor Sarah Sanders to enact a $2 million appropriation that will support maternal health and fund local pregnancy help organizations across Arkansas.

Planned Parenthood has criticized this highly successful grant program, and Planned Parenthood’s decision to open this Pittsburg abortion facility shows its goal is to perform abortions on women throughout the Four State Area. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri all have passed good, pro-life laws protecting women and unborn children from abortion. This facility will promote abortion to women from these states.

We believe women and families deserve better, and we are urging citizens not to support Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.

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

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Planned Parenthood Abortion Facility Reportedly Open for Business Near Northwest Arkansas

Planned Parenthood’s website indicates its newest abortion facility is now open for business just an hour and a half from Northwest Arkansas.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion-provider. The organization owns facilities in Little Rock and Rogers — but those facilities are blocked from performing abortions thanks to Arkansas’ pro-life laws. However, the organization seems determined to promote abortion to women from Arkansas.

Official reports show some 405 women from Arkansas had abortions in Kansas during 2022, but abortion facilities in Kansas are primarily concentrated in the northeast and central areas of the state. However, Family Council recently 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 will let Planned Parenthood promote abortions regionally to women in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma — states that all have very strong, pro-life laws.

Abortion hurts women, and it ends the lives of unborn children. Its risks and its consequences are deathly serious.

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 — and hopefully it will encourage women not to travel across state lines for abortions.

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

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How Planned Parenthood is Sneaking Into a Small Kansas Border Town: Guest Column

By Anne Reed, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue

Pittsburg, Kansas — Documents recently uncovered by the Family Council in Little Rock, Arkansas, revealed that Planned Parenthood Great Plains secretly purchased a building in Pittsburg, Kansas, through a string of property investment limited liability companies, one of which is based in Little Rock. The 990 tax form for Planned Parenthood Great Plains reveals the following connections: 

On April 10, Southeast Kansas Property Investment LLC secured a building permit for the location at 2310 Tucker Terrace in Pittsburg. The description indicated the permit was for a “health center remodel, exam and lab remodel, gutted and turned into the front entrance.”

“It is no surprise that Planned Parenthood is swooping in to guarantee its greedy portion of blood money in Operation Rescue’s home state,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.  

In June, Operation Rescue produced a three-part special report detailing the state’s downward spiral in recent years and months – wildly shifting from a generally pro-life state to a late-term abortion wasteland. Less than two months ago, the Kansas Supreme Court adamantly reaffirmed its total devotion to unfettered abortion.  

“As the battle to save the lives of preborn children intensifies,” said Newman, “Operation Rescue continues to point to Kansas as a desperate warning to other states. Planned Parenthood is clearly capitalizing on the shift in politics, using Kansas as a destination to target innocent preborn children in states where they are protected by law.”

Though Pittsburg is a small town, with a population of just over 20,000, there are numerous reasons that Planned Parenthood would target the area. It is the home of Pittsburg University, a public university with enrollment of over 6,500, and is located only 5 miles from the Missouri state line and under 30 miles from the Oklahoma state line. Both border states are abortion free. 

Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report indicated it performed 392,715 abortions in the U.S. in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. The ravenous abortion giant killed over 18,000 more babies than in the previous year. As the landscape across the nation shifts, Planned Parenthood strategists seize every perceivable opportunity to kill more babies. 

In 2022, 41% of Kansas abortions were performed on women from Missouri and Oklahoma, the two states lines so incredibly close to Pittsburg. These percentages represent 5,089 babies killed in Kansas from the two neighboring states. 

“Apparently, that’s not enough carnage for the baby killers at Planned Parenthood,” said Newman. “Sadly, so many people of Kansas welcomed this evil into our state when 59% voted against the pro-life Value Them Both constitutional ballot initiative in 2022.”

Pittsburg is in Crawford County, where a lower number (55%) voted against the life-saving initiative. These numbers reveal a significant number of pro-life citizens in the town of Pittsburg. So, while Planned Parenthood executives sought out the location because of its proximity to abortion-free states, they apparently anticipated resistance from pro-life residents. The details were carefully hidden as a result.

“This isn’t the first time the powerful abortion giant has used this type of covert technique to keep people of a community in the dark,” said Newman. “Planned Parenthood officials know pro-lifers can thwart its plans by exercising their First Amendment rights and by exploring possible legal actions. Now, the people of Pittsburg are free to do so.” 

This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Anne Reed, is Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue.

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