{"id":205192,"date":"2019-06-22T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205192"},"modified":"2019-06-23T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:59:24","slug":"media-missouri-planned-parenthood-license-political-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-missouri-planned-parenthood-license-political-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Media lies to public, claims Missouri Planned Parenthood lost license for political reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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News outlets are misleading Americans on the conditions that led to the Missouri Department of Health’s decision to deny a license renewal to Reproductive Health Services Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, the only remaining abortion facility in the state. Rather than telling the truth about the events leading to the decision, news sources including CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS, are all reporting the same lie – that the license dispute is focused on having to perform two separate pelvic exams before an abortion. The truth? This Planned Parenthood has a history of injuring women, of failing to actually complete abortions, and has 30 deficiencies<\/em> — of which it has only corrected four. The most recent deficiency report is 62 pages long<\/strong><\/em> and can be read in full here<\/a>.\u00a0This<\/em><\/strong> is why the state refuses to renew the facility’s license.<\/p>\n

Read more details on the list of deficiencies here<\/a>, in addition to the actual health department inspection reports for multiple years past.<\/p>\n

Major media outlets are ignoring these facts and are running headlines meant to make Planned Parenthood look like the victim:<\/p>\n

CBS: Planned Parenthood of St. Louis one step closer to losing license over state pelvic exam regulation<\/a><\/p>\n

MSNBC: Clinic prioritizes patient care over GOP anti-abortion stunt<\/a><\/p>\n

BUSTLE: Planned Parenthood Defies Missouri Pelvic Exam Rule That Doctors Say Is “Unethical”<\/a><\/p>\n

ABC: St. Louis abortion clinic to defy state over pelvic exam<\/a><\/p>\n

CNN: Missouri’s last abortion clinic defies state law just before a decision on the clinic’s fate<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems Planned Parenthood is trying to control the press by announcing it will refuse to conduct the second pelvic exam on each patient undergoing an abortion as if that alone is the reason they have lost their license. But the Health Department says there is no such law requiring two pelvic exams<\/strong><\/em>, and that one pelvic exam needs to be performed 72 hours before the abortion. Planned Parenthood wants to perform that exam on the day of the abortion, and the Health Department addressed this concern by issuing an emergency ruling allowing the facility to do so if circumstances dictate that it must be done the same day.<\/p>\n

“I am issuing an emergency rule today that Planned Parenthood can defer the pelvic exam to the day of service if in their estimation – using their clinical judgment – they think there is a medical reason that they should do that,” announced Dr. Randall Williams, current director of DHSS and former practicing OB\/GYN during a press conference yesterday, June 21. Watch:<\/p>\n

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