On Tuesday Family Council participated in a joint press conference with Operation Rescue and Students for Life opposing Planned Parenthood’s new regional abortion facility near Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

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 Planned Parenthood seems determined to promote abortion to women from Arkansas.

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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 in Southeast Kansas will let Planned Parenthood promote abortions regionally to women in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma — states that all have very strong, pro-life laws.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Family Council’s Assistant Director David Cox delivered the following remarks:

We believe every innocent, human life is sacred from the moment of conception until natural death. Abortion hurts women and families, and it takes the lives of innocent unborn children. That is why we oppose Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.

Pro-lifers in Arkansas are committed to ending abortion by passing pro-life legislation and by supporting women and families. Since 2022, the State of Arkansas’ Pregnancy Resource Center Grant program has distributed $2 million in funding to organizations that provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies. This year, Family Council, Arkansas Right to Life, and other organizations worked with the Arkansas Legislature and Governor Sarah Sanders to enact a $2 million appropriation that will support maternal health and fund local pregnancy help organizations across Arkansas.

Planned Parenthood has criticized this highly successful grant program, and Planned Parenthood’s decision to open this Pittsburg abortion facility shows its goal is to perform abortions on women throughout the Four State Area. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri all have passed good, pro-life laws protecting women and unborn children from abortion. This facility will promote abortion to women from these states.

We believe women and families deserve better, and we are urging citizens not to support Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.

LifeNews Note: Jerry Cox is the president of the Arkansas Family Council.