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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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Planned Parenthood Website Confirms Location of New Regional Abortion Center

On Tuesday Planned Parenthood published a web page confirming the location of its new regional abortion facility in Pittsburg, Kansas — approximately an hour and a half from Northwest Arkansas.

The news came after Family Council and others published documents indicating Planned Parenthood Great Plains had secretly acquired the facility through limited liability companies.

On May 14, Planned Parenthood Great Plains — the regional affiliate responsible for Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas — announced it intended to place an abortion facility in Pittsburg, near the state lines with Missouri and Oklahoma. The facility reportedly will perform chemical abortions. Locating in Pittsburg would make the facility the closest abortion center to Northwest Arkansas, Southwest Missouri, and Northeast Oklahoma.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains has been working to hire staff for the Pittsburg facility, but has not formally announced when the facility will open, and did not share the address of the new facility.

However, on Tuesday Planned Parenthood Great Plains published a web page confirming the center will be at the location Family Council and other pro-life organizations suspected. According to Planned Parenthood’s website, the facility will operate six days a week. Family Council has confirmed the abortion giant is currently remodeling and expanding the center.

Planned Parenthood has a history of secretly acquiring some of its abortion facilities through separate LLCs.

For example, in 2020 Planned Parenthood acquired a facility in Rogers, Arkansas, through 12 Redacre LLC. The LLC’s mailing address matched Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ mailing address in Kansas — signaling a connection between the two.

In 2021, American Life League wrote,

The first highly publicized case of Planned Parenthood sneaking into a community using a false identity to purchase, build/renovate a property, and get needed permits, took place in Aurora Illinois in 2007. Since then, Planned Parenthood has used this technique many times to thwart any efforts by Planned Parenthood’s opponents to stop it from opening. It has become standard operating procedure for the nation’s largest abortion chain.

Official reports show 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 — could make it easier for Planned Parenthood to promote abortion to women from out-of-state.

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

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