{"id":204858,"date":"2019-06-18T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204858"},"modified":"2019-06-19T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:50:17","slug":"judge-seals-records-abortions-missouri-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-seals-records-abortions-missouri-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover-up? Judge seals botched abortion records from Missouri Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update June 19, 2019:<\/strong> <\/em>The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has filed a motion<\/a> to unseal a Statement of Deficiencies and an accompanying letter which was sealed by order of Judge Michael Stelzer at the request of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

The DHSS did not renew the license of Reproductive Health Services Planned Parenthood in St. Louis after it failed to comply with certain requests concerning the safety of its patients after failed health inspections. Stelzer sealed the documents containing information on botched abortions at the facility that caused serious injury to four women. In all, at least 74 women were injured at the Planned Parenthood location.<\/p>\n

“It’s clear that RHS Planned Parenthood was attempting to hide the incriminating information contained in the report because it completely destroys their arguments that they provide safe abortions and are being somehow wrongly persecuted by the DHSS,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue.<\/p>\n

The Statement of Deficiencies, which was obtained by Operation Rescue and can be read here<\/a>, shows that some women had to go through multiple abortion attempts for the same pregnancy because abortionists at RHS Planned Parenthood botched the abortions. RHS Planned Parenthood claims that releasing the Statement of Deficiencies to the public would be a violation of state law, except, as Operation Rescue points out, Missouri Law states the opposite, saying that Statements of Deficiencies “shall be made available to the public.”<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood also claims that releasing the information on how horrific their facility has been would violate HIPAA privacy laws but no personal information is in the statement.<\/p>\n

“This is a page from Planned Parenthood’s standard playbook,” said Newman. “They threaten agencies with raw speculation about HIPAA violations in order to intimidate the agency to keep their secrets about botched abortions and other abuses.”<\/p>\n

June 18, 2019:<\/strong><\/em> In a shocking move that appears to be a cover-up attempt to protect RHS Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, Missouri, and its abortionists, Judge Michael F. Stelzer has sealed documents attached to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services motion known as “Exhibit A,” which contains multiple damning pieces of information about the facility, including serious deficiencies on the part of the abortionists. It appears that Judge Stelzer sealed Exhibit A\u00a0at the request of RHS Planned Parenthood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue is reporting<\/a> that Judge Stelzer, who kept Reproductive Health Services Planned Parenthood in St. Louis open despite the expiration of its license, has denied a motion on behalf of the DHSS asking that the Court reconsider or amend the Preliminary Injunction he issued on June 10, 2019.\u00a0Multiple botched abortions, serious injuries to women, and failure to follow basic protocol expected of any medical facility followed by a complete refusal to be interviewed by the Department of Health show that RHS Planned Parenthood has zero interest in protecting and helping women.<\/p>\n