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Planned Parenthood Consolidating Facilities North of Arkansas

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.

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

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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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