Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Great Plains for “violation of the laws of Missouri regarding parental consent for minors traveling for interstate abortions.”

Undercover footage from Project Veritas reveals that Planned Parenthood clinics are allegedly working together to transport minors across state lines, even during school hours, for them to obtain abortions without parental knowledge or consent.

Missouri state law clearly and expressly forbids any person to help a minor obtain an abortion without parental consent, even if they take the minor to a state where abortion is legal.

Bailey hopes this lawsuit will “permanently drive Planned Parenthood from the state of Missouri,” and calls the abortion giant “a lawless cult of death.”

In the footage, an undercover journalist pretends to seek an abortion for his 13-year-old “niece” without her parents finding out, asking Planned Parenthood employees several questions. They inform him that elective abortions are illegal in the state of Missouri, but the managing director goes into a detailed conversation regarding how Planned Parenthood can help him transport the 13-year-old to Kansas to obtain the abortion—completely under her parents’ radar.

“They have people that will come pick them up,” the managing director says. She also says that Planned Parenthood can provide a doctor’s note to excuse the girl from school—“We can cut off our letterhead so it doesn’t even say where she was.” She tells the journalist that when he calls the Kansas clinic, he needs to let them know he needs a “bypass,” which, in her words, means “just not letting the parents know.”

When the journalist asked if he could bring the 13-year-old to the Kansas abortion clinic himself, the managing director informed him that he could. When he asked how often this happens, she replied, “Every day.”

In the state of Missouri, minors under the age of 14 cannot legally give valid consent to sexual intercourse—Planned Parenthood was under obligation to report the incident as a sexual offense against a minor, Bailey argues.

“Planned Parenthood Great Plains has a long and troubling history of failing to comply with the law,” the Missouri lawsuit alleges.

In 2018, a Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic was shut down after it was discovered that they were using equipment on women with mold and “reddish-colored fluids” on it—“most likely bodily fluid.” Additionally, physicians with the organization had failed for at least 15 years to file reports of medical complications from abortions as required by state law, as well as to inform patients of the potential risk of an abortion procedure.

“Their commitment to the destruction of human life is put before the health and safety of women and girls and obedience to state law,” Bailey said. “We need a court order. If Planned Parenthood refuses to comply by the law, we’ll get a court order requiring them to do so and hold in contempt anyone who is trafficking women out of state for abortions or concealing the sexual exploitation of children.”

Planned Parenthood also has a sordid history with aiding sex traffickers, covering up cases of sexual assault and telling personnel to turn a blind eye when potential victims and perpetrators enter its clinics, Live Action reports.

“An organization, an entity that takes innocent human lives, you cannot expect them to abide by the law,” said Tony Perkins in a Washington Watch interview with Bailey.

“There’s going to be a discovery process, and we’re going to get to the bottom of this,” Bailey said. “Again, we need to know how many people were violating state statute, and the degree of culpability, and how many state statutes were violated … we will being the full force and effect of the law to bear on those individuals.”

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