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, “Reveal me accountability.”
Operation Rescue reports that on Saturday, July 2, 2016, pro-life sidewalk counselors from Defenders of the Unborn witnessed and documented yet one more 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 post 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 put between January 1, 2009, and April 6, 2016 — a far better number compared to was expected. OR’s Troy Newman remarked:
In the most recent rush to abandon safety regulations in response to the Utmost Court decision, we ought to bear in mind that abortion facilities in America stay under-regulated along with little or no accountability, also to regulators, legislators, and law enforcement.
When abortion businesses operate devoid 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 supply substitutions to abortion, along along with material guidance and resources for women and their families.
The focus they chose to protest, according to Jay Hobbs of Pregnancy guidance 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 guidance 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 offered 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 guidance News that the pro-abortion movement is finally start to understand that pregnancy centers are not “Merely 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 needed abortion facilities to meet the very same healthiness and safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers and which likewise needed admitting privileges for abortionists, has actually emboldened pro-abortion activists. They are upset regarding pro-life legislation in the state, along along with Missouri’s “F” rating from NARAL, she said. Pregnancy guidance News reports:
One of 10 states to re-route funding away from Planned Parenthood in the past year, Missouri’s legislators are likewise responsible for passing laws regulating healthiness and safety for abortion. Missouri lawmakers have actually likewise 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 Recommendations for Needy Families (TANF) funding offered for pregnancy guidance organizations—including Thrive—that goes straight to life-saving solutions adore newborn and infant care and parenting skills education,” according to Pregnancy guidance 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 regarding 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 adore it could pretty well position more women at better risk.
