It’s been a year and a half since the Dobbs decision put Roe v. Wade in the dustbin, but abortion is still alive and well in many parts of the U.S.

When you are zealously committed to a false conception of rights—and that’s being charitable about the motives of abortion providers—you will find any way possible to keep the industry going. As the old saying goes, where there’s a will, there’s a way.

And Planned Parenthood is very good at coming up with ways.

The journalism organization Project Veritas recently published footage of an undercover journalist talking with a Planned Parenthood clinic managing director in Kansas City, Missouri.

Now, abortion is illegal in Missouri. But the director reassured the journalist—posing as a prospective customer asking about a 13-year-old pregnant girl—that Planned Parenthood has ways of shuttling young girls across state lines to get abortions where it is legal, and all without the parents’ knowledge. According to the footage of this director…

1) Planned Parenthood will consider a 13-year-old girl to be an adult while she is in their clinics.

Even if she’s just barely in her teens—years away from the maturity that would allow her to make sufficiently wise medical decisions, especially when news as shocking as pregnancy arrives to an early teenager—Planned Parenthood will respect her decisions regarding abortion, follow-up visits and contraceptives as if she were an adult.

2) As the logical implication of #1, Planned Parenthood won’t tell a 13-year-old girls’ parents that she is undergoing an abortion.

When the “customer” explained his fear of the girls’ parents, the director assured him, “We never tell the parents anything. She’s an adult in our clinics.”

What does this really mean? During one of the most world-shaking events that could ever happen to a teenage girl, Planned Parenthood will refuse to notify the two people in the world who are normally most able to help her.

It’s bad enough that—in situations like this—the baby’s father will often ditch the mother; Planned Parenthood then ensures that the mother’s parents can’t have a chance to help her, either. Instead, total strangers who profess to care are the new mother’s sole support network.

3) Planned Parenthood will arrange to make her trip to another state as inconspicuous as possible.

According to the director, Planned Parenthood can procure a doctor’s note so the girl can skip school (no objections raised), they can arrange for the girl to be picked up and taken across state lines, they can even set up a hotel for her if need be.

In other words, not only will they refuse to tell the parents, but they are willing to reduce any chance of the parents finding out any other way.

4) Finally, Planned Parenthood’s arrangements allow an adult other than the girl’s parents to arrange for her trip to another state’s abortion facility.

The journalist posing as the prospective customer made it clear that he was not the father of the girl for whom he was inquiring, but the director didn’t seem to bat an eye. She instead reassured him—with the same attentiveness I would have expected as if she were talking to the girl’s father—that he could get the interstate travel, abortion, and follow-up measures taken care of without any interference.

If this doesn’t give the green light to sex predators, I don’t know what does.

And when the journalist asked the director how often girls will cross state lines to access abortion in another state. “Oh, every day. Every day.”

This video clearly shows that the battle for the lives of the unborn is far from over. Dobbs was certainly a great win on the national level, but the decision pushed the battle down to the state level, where pro-choice forces are often more entrenched and less noticeable. As long as just one individual state allows abortion to remain legal, abortion clinics in other states will be bending over backwards to help teenagers and young women cross state lines into “safe territory.”

As the Planned Parenthood director reassured the journalist, “We’re all one big old clinic, pretty much.”

The pro-life movement cannot rest until every abortion organization in America is closed.

The clinics in abortion-friendly states are working overtime to “service” women from across borders, and the clinics in abortion-banning states are rapidly helping women to “safety.” Voters even in states like Missouri still have work to do. Women in their own neighborhoods are being deceived into an exploitative system that refuses to even notify parents what is being done to their daughters and grandchildren.

Even so, as this new year begins, let’s be praying that the Lord will work on the hearts of voters in abortion-friendly states, especially states like Illinois. And continue to keep the pro-life forces in these states in your prayers—they are the new front line in the battle for America’s unborn.

The front line often seems bleak, but then again, it’s called the front line for a reason. It’s where the fighting is fiercest.

But it’s also where the tide begins to turn.