{"id":168707,"date":"2017-07-06T17:46:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=168707"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:46:33","slug":"missouri-gov-eric-greitens-calls-out-fake-news-reporting-on-pregnancy-center-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-calls-out-fake-news-reporting-on-pregnancy-center-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens calls out ‘fake news’ reporting on pregnancy center protections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the city of St. Louis, Missouri, passed an “abortion sanctuary” law<\/a> discriminating against pro-life pregnancy centers, Governor Eric Greitens called a special session of the Missouri Legislature to protect these centers’ rights. A press release<\/a> on the session in June 2017 noted that the session would “focus on protecting pregnancy resource centers and proposals for common-sense health and safety standards in abortion clinics.” Gov. Greitens stated in a video at the time that a court decision had “weakened our state’s health standards in abortion clinics,” so the session would propose some “common-sense standards to keep Missourians safe.” Greitens said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We’re proposing, for example, that abortion clinics should have an annual safety inspection.<\/p>\n

We’re proposing that these clinics should have a plan for complications.<\/p>\n

And we’re proposing a fix that will stop abortion clinics from interfering with emergency responders. If a woman needs help, abortion clinics shouldn’t be able to tell an ambulance to come slowly–to not use their lights and sirens–or to go around to the back gate, just because they are worried that an ambulance arriving might make their abortion clinic look bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While some might think that surely there are already annual inspections<\/a>, plans for complications, and standard procedures for 911 calls<\/a> in place at abortion facilities, this is not necessarily the case. All three of these proposals address actual gaps and problems related to safety protocol at abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

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Live Action News’ Kristi Burton Brown reported<\/a> at the time of the special session:<\/p>\n

Under the abortion sanctuary law<\/a>, landlords could be forced to rent their properties to abortion facilities, and employers (including pregnancy centers)\u00a0who did not want to hire abortion advocates could be punished.<\/p>\n

A law proposed in the Missouri House would\u00a0fix this discrimination against employers and property owners\u00a0with pro-life beliefs.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re calling a special session to support the people doing this vital work to help women and children,\u201d Gov. Greitens said….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regarding ambulance calls, Brown writes:<\/p>\n

This has become a huge and constant problem at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, where a woman has been transported by ambulance from the abortion facility every six weeks<\/a>, on average, since 2009. The St. Louis Planned Parenthood has also received multiple\u00a0Statement of Deficiency Reports from state health inspectors. Over half of the violations<\/a> \u201crelated to failure to provide a safe and sanitary environment.\u201d In January, Live Action News reported<\/a> that \u201cinspections \u2018took place in 2009, 2013, 2015, and 2016\u2019 but 61 percent<\/em> of the 210 incidents\u00a0occurred just last year, in 2016.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, Gov. Greitens is speaking out on the biased and inaccurate media reporting on this special session called to protect the rights of pro-lifers in the state and to protect women from a predatory abortion industry:<\/p>\n