The Don’t Show Me State

Missouri has just passed a law banning Planned Parenthood and other pro-abort groups from participating in classroom sex ed programs.

WOO-HOO!

The law also re-classifies abortion clinics as ambulatory surgery centers.

EXCERPT:

Planned Parenthood of Missouri complained that the new law will
require them to spend up to $2 million to refit their abortion centers
to meet the new standards.

Paula Gianino, president of Planned Parenthood for the St. Louis
Region, said the new law could leave only one abortion facility in the
state.

And Missouri’s governor, who signed the bill, lived up to his last name:

"I say if they can’t meet the same basic requirements that other
(medical) providers do, then they should shut down," [Matt] Blunt stated.

Go Missouri!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

24 thoughts on “The Don’t Show Me State”

  2. Looks like the American bishops are taking it much better than a certain Italian bishop.

  7. Whaddya know. Finally, someone’s told PP that if they have to begin to be truthful. If you claim to be a medical facility, follow the rules. Of course, that means consequences for such things as not reporting underage abuse.

  8. I am PROUD to live in Missouri. Now I can rethink that move I was planning to South Dakota. Matt Blunt has been a great Gov, I hope he can stick around. He’s done lots of cool stuff in many areas for the state.

  10. You gotta love it — the pro-abortion crowd keeps insisting that abortion is health care. Looks like the baby killers have outsmarted themselves.
    This is especially good news after that disaster last year where the destroyers of embryonic human beings got Missouri’s constitution amended to force tax dollars to be used for shredding microscopic humans.

  11. great news! I’m trying to picture him signing a ‘pill’ though, and am having a hard time…

  13. I love my state. There has been an ongoing battle with PP for years in this state which has exposed the duplicity of PP for even the most vitrolic pro-abortionist. Wanna count how many days before the pro-abortionists do what they always do…take it to court?

  14. Good start. If anything is going to change, I think it is going to have to be at the state and local levels. Lets start seeing these things ( “abortion clinics” ) for what they are.

  15. Is South Dakota abortion free? I want a t-shirt that says “SOUTH DAKOTA: THE ABORTION-FREE STATE”.

  16. Yay! Good for Gov. Blunt – he was spot on. It seems like PP is saying that they shouldn’t have to follow medical regulations when doing a medical procedure. So if you’re killing babies, you should be above the law? Huh?

  17. Planned Parenthood:
    “We firmly believe abortion should be Safe, Legal and Rare. Okay, maybe not rare, since we’re in it for the money and safe isn’t that big a deal if it costs too much money either. But definitely LEGAL. One out of three ain’t bad!”

  18. Brilliant. This is good news indeed. PP surely shot themselves in the foot by complaining about the cost to bring things up to standard. Are they so dim they can’t see that is saying their standards are pretty poor?

  19. Unfortunately, South Dakota is not abortion-free — yet. We tried: our legislature overwhelmingly, and in a bipartisan manner, passed the most restrictive abortion laws yet proposed. Planned Parenthood instituted the oxymoronically named Coalition for Healthy Families to fight the ban and get it put on the ballot as a ballot iniative. By hammering the “exceptions” not being made, the ballot lost narrowly. Polls after voting indicated that the “exceptions” would have passed it. The legislators let it rest this session, but it will probably come to the legislature again in light of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban being affirmed in the USSC. The legislators that were against the ban lost in the election and those for it won, even in districts where Democrats were challenged for their support of the ban. PP is now trying to discredit one of the main sponsors of the bill over fund raising.

  20. Mrs Paula Gianino down to only one clinic, well that will make it a heck of a lot easier to gather for prayer during the 40 days for life event this fall!

  21. Great news!
    I wish my state just west of Missouri would make as much progress…
    I love Kansas, but we’re sure messed up over here.

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