Just a couple of days prior to the just abortion facility in the state of Missouri sent its 60th patient because 2009 to the hospital via ambulance, paid pro-abortion protesters gathered at a pro-life pregnancy focus chain in St. Louis, displaying signs which ironically stated, “Prove to me accountability.”
Operation Rescue reports that on Saturday, July 2, 2016, pro-life sidewalk counselors from Defenders of the Unborn witnessed and documented yet an additional ambulance call to Planned Parenthood of St. Louis. The previous ambulance call for a patient taken place much less compared to two months prior, on Could 13th. As a result of the St. Louis Fire Department’s refusal to release 911 short article about ambulance calls to Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, Operation Rescue filed a recent lawsuit, after which it was revealed that 58 medical emergencies took position between January 1, 2009, and April 6, 2016 — a far greater number compared to was expected. OR’s Troy Newman remarked:
In the latest rush to abandon safety regulations in response to the Utmost Court decision, we ought to keep in mind that abortion facilities in America continue to be under-regulated along with little or no accountability, also to regulators, legislators, and law enforcement.
When abortion businesses operate free of regulatory oversight, women suffer, women die, and babies die.
Accountability. Something sorely lacking in the abortion industry. And yet, 23 pro-abortion protesters — employees and interns of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, the ACLU, and Reproaction — appear indifferent to the injuries inflicted on women by the rarely accountable abortion industry, as an alternative going with to attack pregnancy centers which provide substitutions to abortion, along along with material assistance and resources for women and their families.
The focus they chose to protest, according to Jay Hobbs of Pregnancy assistance News, is Thrive St. Louis, a group of pro-life medical pregnancy centers along with 30 paid staff and 200+ volunteers. Thrive, says Hobbs, offers “free ultrasound testing, pregnancy testing, STD/STI testing, parenting classes and assistance along with making an adoption plan.” Not just that…
Recent recipients of an ultrasound machine through the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Committee that now bumps its fleet of mobile ultrasound units to four, plus 3 brick-and-mortar locations, Thrive given 8,445 points of free service for community members in 2015.
Thrive’s president, Bridget Van Means, says the centers’ energetic stand permanently and efforts to reach the community have actually resulted in being targeted by the Satanic Temple in St. Louis, which has actually 300 members and considers abortion a “sacrament.”
Regarding the current protest versus Thrive, Means told Pregnancy assistance News that the pro-abortion movement is finally start to recognize that pregnancy centers are not “Simply ridiculous old ladies along with Bibles,” however are the “spiritual epicenter” of a battle for hearts, minds, and human lives.
Means believes that the recent Utmost Court’s decision to strike down Texas’s HB 2, which would certainly have actually called for abortion facilities to meet the very same good health and safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers and which additionally called for admitting privileges for abortionists, has actually emboldened pro-abortion activists. They are upset concerning pro-life legislation in the state, along along with Missouri’s “F” rating from NARAL, she said. Pregnancy assistance News reports:
One of 10 states to re-route funding away from Planned Parenthood in the past year, Missouri’s legislators are additionally responsible for passing laws regulating good health and safety for abortion. Missouri lawmakers have actually additionally established and expanded the substitutions to Abortion Routine while providing a tax credit for donors that support qualifying pregnancy centers throughout the state.
The Alternatives to Abortion Program “makes $4.3 million of the state’s Temporary Insight for Needy Families (TANF) funding offered for pregnancy assistance organizations—including Thrive—that goes straight to life-saving solutions enjoy newborn and infant care and parenting skills education,” according to Pregnancy assistance News. These are solutions that Planned Parenthood and its cohorts in the abortion industry do not offer.
Meanwhile, the abortion industry and its friends are all of concerning access as an alternative of women’s safety, while protesting centers that are perfectly safe — and life-saving. Thanks to the Utmost Court’s decision, Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and various other facilities enjoy it could quite well position much more women at higher risk.
