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Missouri Governor Eric Greitens noted in June 2017 that a newly-proposed bill in the state legislature would make it illegal for abortion facilities to request ambulances to arrive without lights and sirens. \u201cIf a woman needs help,” Greitens said, as quoted by STLNews<\/a>, “abortion clinics shouldn\u2019t be able to tell an ambulance to come slowly \u2014 to not use their lights and sirens \u2014 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>\n

STL News noted<\/a> that the pro-abortion response to the proposed law was to label it as an “unnecessary and… veiled attempt to restrict access to abortion providers,” however, no specifics were noted as to how the law would actually “restrict” anyone’s access to an abortion facility. “The proposal,” says the news outlet, “would establish a misdemeanor offense, punishable by up to a year in prison or a $2,000 fine, for clinic workers who make such requests that ‘interfere’ with medical assistance, according to Republican Sen. Bob Onder, who\u2019s been involved in crafting the legislation.”<\/p>\n

According to the pro-life group Operation Rescue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While Planned Parenthood representatives have said the new bill has nothing to do with the health and safety of women…\u00a0[i]t is a fact that ambulances running silently take longer to reach their destinations than ambulances running with lights and sirens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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OR notes that former New York Planned Parenthood worker\u00a0Marc E. Heller stated that when he worked there, “We always said to the ambulance, \u2018Please come to the back entrance. Please don\u2019t use any sirens or lights,\u2019 because we knew that the protestors that were there every day would call the press. And there would be a press thing about \u2018another botched abortion.\u2019”<\/p>\n

OR adds that Planned Parenthood of St. Louis CEO Mary Kogut admits that her facility had “in the past asked that no sirens be used for the numerous medical emergencies that occur at that clinic,” stating, “[We] may have asked that the siren wasn\u2019t on so that it didn\u2019t alarm other people.\u201d Kogut claims this is no longer policy at her facility.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood of St. Louis has been called the most dangerous abortion facility in the nation, racking up an average of one ambulance call every six weeks<\/a> since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens noted in June 2017 that a newly-proposed bill in the state legislature would make it illegal for abortion facilities to request ambulances to arrive without lights and sirens. \u201cIf a woman needs help,” Greitens said, as quoted by STLNews, “abortion clinics shouldn\u2019t be able to tell an ambulance to come slowly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":72948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMissouri law would make it illegal for abortion facilities to request ambulances without lights and sirens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abortion advocates called the bill an "unnecessary and... veiled attempt to restrict access to abortion providers," but no examples of this were given.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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