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National and local prolife groups will hold a joint news conference on Tuesday near an abortion clinic that Planned Parenthood recently opened in the college town of Pittsburg, Kan. Speakers will include Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue, David Cox of Family Council Arkansas and William Anderson of Students for Life of America.
Documents recently uncovered by Family Council Arkansas revealed that Planned Parenthood secretly purchased the building in Pittsburg through a string of limited liability companies in 2023. The new abortion facility is located less than two miles from the campus of Pittsburg State University and only five miles from the Missouri state line, where abortion is currently banned. It is less than a one-hour drive from Oklahoma and less than a 90-minute drive from Arkansas. Both states are abortion-free.
“After the disastrous failure of the Kansas prolife amendment in 2022, Kansas is fast becoming an absolute abortion wasteland,” Newman said. “Just this summer, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down numerous longstanding protections for the preborn. Now, this new Planned Parenthood abortion clinic will prey on vulnerable young adults at the nearby college, as well as undermine voters in neighboring states who had the wisdom and courage to vote in protections for the preborn. Planned Parenthood hates to let babies live in any state.”
In 2022, Kansas also saw a staggering 57 percent increase in abortions, mainly because of women traveling from surrounding states with stronger prolife laws after the Dobbs decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Of all the abortions performed that year, 41 percent were performed on women from Missouri and Oklahoma, representing over 5,000 babies aborted from just these two neighboring states alone.
“Planned Parenthood’s decision to open this Pittsburg abortion facility shows its goal is to perform abortions on women throughout the four-state area,” Cox said. “Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri have passed good, pro-life laws protecting women and unborn children from abortion. This facility will promote abortion to women from these states.”
–Alan Goforth | Metro Voice
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