Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Great Plains, accusing the abortion giant of trafficking minor girls out of state to get abortions.
The lawsuit follows an investigative report that caught staff at a Missouri Planned Parenthood on camera revealing how the organization facilitates out of state abortions for minors without parental knowledge or consent.
Republican AG Bailey announced the lawsuit on X on February 29, declaring it “the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in Missouri.” He explained in subsequent posts that the legal filing is part of a multi-year campaign to combat abortion businesses that are breaking state laws.
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Bailey included examples of Planned Parenthood’s history of healthcare and legal violations such as one facility being shut down in 2018 after admitted to having used moldy medical equipment to commit abortions. Other examples he mentioned were a 2018 admission from Planned Parenthood that its doctors had not complied with Missouri law related to mandatory reporting of adverse events following abortions, and a 2020 hearing that found physicians were not properly informing women about abortion risks. Bailey spoke as well in a press statement about how the personal loss of his newborn daughter underscored the importance of protecting life.
“As a father who held my daughter in my arms for the single hour of her life before she died, I know firsthand how important it is to protect life,” Bailey said. “Our children are the future.”
He added that Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of minors is the final straw for the abortion giant, stating that “it is time to eradicate Planned Parenthood once and for all to end this pattern of abhorrent, unethical, and illegal behavior.”
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State public affairs director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Kelsey Pritchard commended Bailey’s actions, saying that the nation’s largest abortion provider “has long believed the rules don’t apply to them.” Per an organization press release, Pritchard added that “the Democrat Party continuously enables the abortion industry’s egregious legal violations and threats to parental rights.”
She specifically mentioned Democrat leaders such as Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Gov. J. B. Pritzker of Illinois, who cooperate with President Joe Biden’s abortion agenda to enable minors to kill their unborn children and criminalize parents who seek to protect their daughters from such tragedies.
“We applaud Attorney General Bailey for defending Missouri girls and their parents from a predatory industry willing to break the law to make a buck,” Pritchard concluded.
Autumn Christensen, executive director of the SBA-sponsored pregnancy help program Her PLAN, told Pregnancy Help News in a statement that abortion is Planned Parenthood’s “one-size-fits-all answer” to all women in unplanned or difficult pregnancies. Christensen said that the pro-life movement stands “in stark contrast” to the abortion giant by working “alongside her to offer practical resources, provide compassionate support and empower her to plan for her future and her baby’s future.”
“No woman should ever feel that abortion is her only option due to lack of material, financial or emotional support,” Christensen added.
Bailey’s lawsuit was sparked by an investigative video report released by Project Veritas, in which the managing director of the Planned Parenthood facility in Kansas City, Mo., revealed to an undercover journalist how the business gets minors across state lines to obtain abortions in Kansas.
Missouri law prohibits abortion throughout pregnancy except in circumstances when deemed “medically necessary” to save the mother from death or serious injury. Violating the law could result in a 5-15-year prison sentence. There are no abortion facilities in the state actively killing the unborn.
In the December 2023 report, a Project Veritas journalist posed as a man who had impregnated a teenage girl and was seeking information about getting her an abortion without her parents’ knowledge or consent. The response from the Planned Parenthood staff included assurances that the business facilitates every aspect of abortion trafficking, including providing doctors’ notes to schools, setting up appointments and driving the minor girls across state lines.
Notably, the managing director told the journalist—who was secretly filming the entire exchange—that “this is not our first rodeo” and “we never tell the parents anything.”
AG Bailey's office said in its statement that further investigation into Planned Parenthood is ongoing.
