A ruling from the state Supreme Court in Missouri is allowing, at least for now, a shutdown of abortion business that do not meet minimum medical facility requirements.
“We’re going to take a moment to celebrate, because this effectively shuts down abortion clinics in the state of Missouri for the time being,” said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, during an interview with Tony Perkins on “Washington Watch.”
The dispute is over the business operations meeting the state requirements for medical facilities.
“What the Supreme Court said was that the lower court did not apply the proper standard: The lower court said any likelihood, any chance of success on the merits, is sufficient. And that is not legally accurate,” Bailey said.
A report from the Washington Stand said the result is that the case is being returned to the lower court for a re-evaluation of the issues based on the correct standard.
“Planned Parenthood at this point is starting to look more like a criminal enterprise than any kind of legitimate health care entity,” Bailey charged.
“We said all along that Amendment 3 was bad, because it was not only going to result in the death of innocent children, but potentially harm to women, as well. And as soon as Amendment 3 passed, Planned Parenthood marched to court and said that they shouldn’t have to have ultrasounds anymore. … They didn’t have to have any plan to prevent hemorrhaging or sepsis of their ‘patients,’ that their facilities didn’t have to be licensed, that they didn’t need to sterilize their equipment, and that they didn’t have to get informed consent voluntarily from the women before they performed these abortions,” Bailey said.
“These are pernicious and dangerous positions that Planned Parenthood has taken in court. And they convinced a judge in Kansas City that they were correct that Amendment 3 wiped all of that out.”
The amendment was the vote through which state voter allowed abortion in their state constitution.
The abortion cartel, with that amendment, had argued it no longer needed to meet state health and safety rules, no longer needed to assure the mother had not been coerced into abortion and had no reason to make preparations for the event of a botched abortion, the report explained.
It was Jerri Zhang, a circuit court judge in Jackson County, who claimed the state no longer could enforce health and safety rules such as a requirement abortionists have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of their business.
Zhang even, in an extreme move, blocked the state from requiring abortion businesses be licensed by the state.
The report noted that during a 2018 inspection of a Planned Parenthood business, state inspectors found “abortionists used an abortion suction machine clogged with ‘blackish gray residue’ that inspectors later identified as black mold. Planned Parenthood techs used the potentially infection-transmitting machine, although the replacement hose lay unused in a nearby cabinet. They documented that other equipment contained ‘rusted areas, old peeling tape, dried adhesive residue’ and ‘uncleanable surfaces,’ as well as the potential presence of mold or human blood during the unannounced September 26 inspection of Planned Parenthood’s Columbia Health Center in Columbia, Missouri.”
Abortionists have conceded in court filings that they don’t even track complications and injuries that may result.
The amendment narrowly adopted by voters confirmed a woman’s right “to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives.”
It allows voters to protect the lives of the unborn after a baby reaches the age of viability.
Critics of the plan charged with it deliberately was vague so that it could be used to trash health and safety standards.
Bailey noted the voters were “defrauded” by amendment promoters.
“They sold people on this idea that you have a constitutional right to kill innocent children and that there should be no limitations on it. What they didn’t explain is that it would eliminate all health and safety regulations,” he said.
The report noted, however, that Zhang, a “liberal judicial activist,” probably will side with the pro-abortion regime “under any legal standard.”
Any such ruling likely will end up at the state Supreme Court again.
