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Although the pro-life movement has faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles since the 1973
Roe v. Wade decision legalising abortion in the U.S., the movement continues to make legal and cultural gains.
This is one of the latest.
In July 2019, I wrote the blog “The Last Planned Parenthood Clinic in Missouri Again Evades Closure” about how the lone Planned Parenthood clinic in my home state of Missouri received multiple court-ordered reprieves from closure after the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) decided not to renew the facility’s license because of dozens of serious health and safety violations.
Public records showed numerous problems at the clinic, including unreported failed abortions, life threatening complications, an illegal abortion at 21 weeks, insufficient supervision of medical residents (students) performing abortions, and inaccurate medical records, among the many other violations.
By Tessa Weinberg Missouri Independent
Nestled in the pages of Missouri’s initial plan for how to distribute the coronavirus vaccine was a paragraph touting that “Missouri’s population understands the importance of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.”
A month later, in a revised version of the report, the paragraph was gone.
Instead, the updated plan featured a new section that targeted how the state would combat misinformation, complete with a website promising a page dedicated to “myth busters.”
The revisions came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s feedback was incorporated.
Lisa Cox, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Senior Services, said the paragraph was removed “because we did not have data to fully support the statement.”