Hearings have begun in the case of Missouri’s last abortion clinic, a Planned Parenthood in St. Louis whose license has yet to be renewed by state officials. Tuesday’s proceedings netted a particularly disturbing piece of information: Missouri’s state health director admitted to keeping track of the Planned Parenthood patients’ menstrual periods.
that the health director, one Dr. Randall Williams, testified on Tuesday that he maintained a spreadsheet tracking visitors’ periods, allegedly to help “identify patients who had undergone failed abortions.” The spreadsheet also included “medical identification numbers, dates of medical procedures and the gestational ages of fetuses,” according to the report.
of tracking the periods of refugee girls under the government’s care. This is outrageous and disgusting.”Williams, an anti-choice OBGYN who has bragged about never once performing an abortion, defended the spreadsheet,the investigation into Planned Parenthood a “a top-down initiative.” The state claims the spreadsheet helped find four patients who had unsuccessful surgical abortions, andPlanned Parenthood a renewed license.
If the Planned Parenthood’s license is not renewed, Missouri will be the only state in the nation without a single legal
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