Missouri's state health director says he tracked Planned Parenthood patients' periods

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/468020-missouris-state-health-director-says-he-tracked-planned-parenthood

By John Bowden - 10/29/19 06:27 PM EDT

Missouri's state health director testified Tuesday that he had kept a spreadsheet tracking the periods of women who visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in the state as a means of identifying patients who had undergone failed abortions.

Dr. Randall Williams, head of Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services, told a state hearing that he kept a spreadsheet at the request of investigators looking into Planned Parenthood's records of failed abortions in the state, according to the Kansas City Star.

Investigators eventually identified four patients who had to return to Planned Parenthood clinics in order to receive successful surgical abortions, the Star reported.

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