{"id":159446,"date":"2017-01-03T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=159446"},"modified":"2017-01-03T19:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:52:30","slug":"pro-life-group-suspects-incident-missouri-planned-parenthood-orchestrated-political-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-group-suspects-incident-missouri-planned-parenthood-orchestrated-political-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life group suspects incident at Missouri Planned Parenthood &#8216;orchestrated&#8217; for political reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The unexplained arrest of a regular pro-life sidewalk counselor outside Missouri&#8217;s only abortion facility, Planned Parenthood of St. Louis (the site of an average of <a href=\"\/news\/missouri-lawmakers-pro-life-groups-join-forces-to-expose-planned-parenthoods-dangerous-practices\/\">&#8220;one 911 call and ambulance response\u00a0every 42 days&#8221;<\/a>)\u00a0is raising the suspicions of the pro-life group Operation Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Rescue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationrescue.org\/archives\/politically-motivated-pro-life-activist-falsely-arrested-ahead-of-vote-curtailing-free-speech-rights\/\">reports<\/a> that\u00a0Mary Maschmeier, founder and president of Defenders of the Unborn, videotaped the incident, which occurred on the morning of December 31, noting on her Facebook page,\u00a0&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0John Ryan was arrested. He was not told what the charges were&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maschmeier told Operation Rescue that the police never asked [John] Ryan for his name nor did they respond to questions about why he was being put under arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan said that police spoke to none of the approximately six pro-life activists that had witnessed Ryan\u2019s conduct all morning and could attest to the fact that he never broke the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ryan was eventually charged with domestic terrorism and pulling a fire alarm, but the other pro-lifers present that day state they never witnessed Ryan leave the sidewalk that morning.\u00a0Aside from this, John Ryan claims he was told by an arresting officer that police &#8220;were detailed ahead of time to Planned Parenthood&#8221; that day, but no further information was given. The following day, Ryan was released &#8220;on his own recognizance \u2014 without having to post bail,&#8221; says Operation Rescue, noting that this &#8220;also seemed odd given the charge of &#8216;domestic terrorism.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmary.maschmeier%2Fvideos%2F10210733395424928%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OR president Troy Newman believes it is possible the situation leading to Ryan&#8217;s arrest was pre-planned (by Planned Parenthood and the city of St. Louis) to give credence to a proposed\u00a0amendment\u00a0to the city&#8217;s anti-discrimination ordinance which would\u00a0include pregnancy and reproductive health decisions as &#8220;protected classes,&#8221; and put in place a buffer zone around Planned Parenthood St. Louis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two St. Louis Aldermen, Megan-Ellyia Green and Christine Ingrassia, both Democrats, have worked \u201cin tandem\u201d with the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) to introduce BB 203 and a new buffer zone ordinance that would keep protesters away from the facility \u2013 the only abortion facility in Missouri \u2014 and make it more difficult to offer help to women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Historically, &#8220;buffer zones&#8221; have not held up in light of\u00a0the First Amendment. One case even made it to the U.S. Supreme Court and was found unconstitutional. As Live Action News&#8217; Becky Yeh <a href=\"\/news\/new-hampshire-halts-buffer-zone-law-after-supreme-court-ruling\/\">reported<\/a> in 2014, &#8220;[T]he U.S. Supreme Court struck down\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/8272\">McCullen v. Coakley<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>a lawsuit ADF and allied attorneys filed in 2008. The ruling\u00a0affirms that restricted speech\u00a0zones around abortion clinics violate the free speech rights of pro-life advocates.&#8221; This ruling led the city of Portland, Maine, to do away with its 39-foot buffer zone law (and even caused one in New Hampshire to be put on hold). The city of Portland\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/legal-group-stops-planned-parenthood-from-silencing-pro-life-speech-in-maine\/\">eventually admitted<\/a>\u00a0the buffer zone law had violated the free speech rights of pro-lifers and agreed to pay them damages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd2\">\n<p><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_BY_250_mid_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179101244-0\" class=\"ArticleAd2a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179101244-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Live Action News&#8217; Nancy Flanders so astutely pointed out in a <a href=\"\/news\/buffer-zone-laws-are-anything-but-pro-choice\/\">previous article<\/a>, buffer zones are <em>anything but<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;pro-choice&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Buffer zone laws simply take away an aspect of a woman\u2019s choice. Buffer zones shut down the one group of people whom some women are looking for. Buffer zones censor important information so that abortion clinics can continue to make money off emotionally distraught women who believe they have no other choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OR notes that &#8220;medical emergencies involving injuries to women&#8230; have taken place at the St. Louis Planned Parenthood abortion facility\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationrescue.org\/archives\/most-dangerous-planned-parenthood-in-america-wants-court-to-block-safety-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">63 times<\/a>\u00a0in the past eight years.&#8221; Just last month, Missouri lawmakers and pro-life activists held\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/missouri-lawmakers-pro-life-groups-join-forces-to-expose-planned-parenthoods-dangerous-practices\/\">press conferences<\/a> at five Missouri Planned Parenthood locations to, as Live Action News&#8217; Carole Novielli stated, &#8220;sound a &#8216;safety alert&#8217; to women and to urge for inspections and\u00a0investigations of the St. Louis facility&#8221; due to its high number of ambulance calls. Operation Rescue had to fight the city of St. Louis just to gain access to the heavily redacted 911 call records through the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>The abortion industry itself is the real danger to women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unexplained arrest of a regular pro-life sidewalk counselor outside Missouri&#8217;s only abortion facility, Planned Parenthood of St. Louis (the site of an average of &#8220;one 911 call and ambulance response\u00a0every 42 days&#8221;)\u00a0is raising the suspicions of the pro-life group Operation Rescue. Operation Rescue reports that\u00a0Mary Maschmeier, founder and president of Defenders of the Unborn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":75537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-life group suspects incident at Missouri Planned Parenthood &#039;orchestrated&#039; for political reasons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The unexplained arrest of a pro-life sidewalk counselor outside Planned Parenthood of St. Louis is raising suspicions of Operation Rescue.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-group-suspects-incident-missouri-planned-parenthood-orchestrated-political-reasons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro-life group suspects incident at Missouri Planned Parenthood &#039;orchestrated&#039; 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