Missouri AG Sues To Prevent Planned Parenthood From Alleged Transportation Of Minors For Out Of State Abortions
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – The Attorney General of Missouri has filed legal action against Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the US, to prevent the organization from transporting minors out of the state for abortions without their parents’ consent, The Christian Post reports. Planned Parenthood has denied that it does this.
The Christian Post reports that Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced the legal action against Planned Parenthood Great Plains on Feb. 29. The lawsuit concerning the transportation of minors is part of a broader years-long campaign to remove Planned Parenthood from Missouri; the state has banned abortion except in medical emergencies.
The legal filings in the case include video footage taken by the conservative Project Veritas group in November 2023. The footage purports to show Planned Parenthood Great Plains employees telling an undercover reporter that they help minors leave the state to get abortions without their parents’ knowledge, The Christian Post reports.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Bailey said Planned Parenthood has violated Missouri laws and is not fit to operate as any kind of healthcare provider. The legal filings in the lawsuit also show, for example, that in 2018 state, the Planned Parenthood facility in Columbia, Missouri, was closed down after staff admitted they had used moldy equipment on women who came for abortions. That same year, Planned Parenthood also admitted it had violated a state law requiring physicians to file reports about medical complications after an abortion. This issue appeared not to have been resolved by 2020.
“[Planned Parenthood] should no longer be allowed to operate in the state of Missouri, and we’re not going to let that go,” Bailey told the Christian Post. “We will continue to pursue them using every available resource we have until such time as they’re driven from the state of Missouri,” Bailey said.
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