Planned Parenthood has refused to produce records that could prove it has irreversibly harmed children without parental consent as part of its booming transgender business, possibly in collusion with the Biden administration, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey revealed this week.

Numerous transgender clinics in Missouri, including those affiliated with Planned Parenthood, have failed to comply with court orders supporting the state attorney general’s probe of the transgender industry, which began after a whistleblower uncovered serial irregularities targeting vulnerable minors.

Bailey, a Republican, invoked the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which empowers his office to investigate any good or service that “[p]resents a risk of, or causes, substantial injury to consumers.”

However, Planned Parenthood said it couldn’t release the documents because of a U.S. law called the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act, or HIPAA.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer ruled Thursday that Bailey has “broad investigative powers when the consumer is in possible need of protection,” since he is “investigating possible dishonesty by [Planned Parenthood] in their medical and billing practices.”

Therefore, Stelzer ruled, Planned Parenthood of St. Louis must “produce any and all documents not protected by HIPAA.”

Despite an unbroken string of legal victories against transgender facilities (including two Planned Parenthood affiliates), only one facility has turned over documents: Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

“We anticipate that there’s going to be negative findings from our investigation into Planned Parenthood,” Bailey said Tuesday on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.”

“We have reason to believe that the Biden administration intervened with some of........

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