National anti-abortion leaders say Sen. Susan Collins is spreading “misinformation” in her statements of support for continued taxpayer funding of America’s largest provider of abortions, Planned Parenthood.
Vice President Mike Pence is defending the short-term budget deal Republicans negotiated with Democrats as “a clear win for the American people.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday during a press conference that “Planned Parenthood is not funded” in the budget reconciliation bill that Republicans should be able to get through the Senate with only 51 votes.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) rallied on Capitol Hill and delivered nearly 200,000 baby socks to members of Congress Wednesday as they urged lawmakers to eliminate Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding.
Maryland is the first state to pass a law that agrees to reimburse abortion chain Planned Parenthood if Congress passes, and President Donald Trump signs, legislation that eliminates its federal taxpayer funding.
President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka met in an “under-the-radar” meeting with Planned Parenthood president and CEO Cecile Richards to discuss possible “common ground” on the issue of abortion, says Politico.
Anti-abortion advocates say there are no longer any “excuses” for Republicans to delay approving legislation that would end Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding.
The nation’s largest abortion business is hoping to “turn the whole internet Planned Parenthood pink” on Wednesday so its supporters can “feel the groundswell of support from our movement.”
National pro-life leaders are calling on Congress to finally eliminate Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding and redirect it to other community health centers in another reconciliation bill.
In a video message, Kristan Hawkins, who heads the largest millennial pro-life organization in the United States, tells Republicans they are expected to keep their promise to defund Planned Parenthood – “no matter how you have to do it.”
Immediately after the cancellation of the House vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards sent out a fundraising email to her supporters, crediting them with stopping the vote on the bill.
A group of Iowa women clergy from various denominations is echoing the words of Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards in describing the services the abortion business provides as “vital.”
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report on the House Republicans’ healthcare plan says the included provision to defund Planned Parenthood would result in “additional births stemming from the reduced access” to “services that help women avert pregnancies.”
The Trump administration has informed Planned Parenthood it will have to quit performing abortions in order to keep its federal taxpayer funding.
Some Republican lawmakers are complaining the Obamacare repeal bill that contains the provision to eliminate Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding will make repeal of the healthcare law more difficult. “I don’t think it makes sense to have the defunding of Planned Parenthood
The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) is announcing a new television ad buy urging Congress to redirect taxpayer funding from Planned Parenthood to other health care facilities that do not perform abortions.
As the nation’s largest abortion business faces the redirection of its taxpayer funding to other facilities that do not perform abortions, Planned Parenthood has been running an ad in which a young woman expresses gratitude for a Planned Parenthood staff member who encouraged her to wait before having an abortion.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) says she will not vote with fellow Republicans for an Obamacare repeal bill that defunds Planned Parenthood.
The president of America’s largest pro-life youth organization says her visit to the White House the day before the March for Life is a sign that the movement to save women and babies from the devastation of abortion is finally optimistic and full of hope.
The tens of thousands of women marching in the anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington demonstration in Washington, D.C., Saturday are “mostly white” and experiencing “therapy” for their anxiety over Hillary Clinton’s election loss to Donald Trump in November, the Washington Post reports.
Planned Parenthood receives more than a half-billion taxpayer dollars annually. The group has been under congressional investigation for the past year following the release of videos that alleged Planned Parenthood harvests the body parts of babies aborted in its clinics and sells them for a profit.
In a letter to Trump, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and other Democrats say they are concerned about “our nation’s family planning centers in the next Congress and under your Administration.”
President Barack Obama’s administration is drafting a new regulation which would override state laws that redirect funding away from Planned Parenthood toward competing healthcare providers.
Planned Parenthood sought the money in an attempt to stave off efforts to eliminate its taxpayer funding following the video scandal that exposed its alleged involvement in the illegal sale of aborted baby body parts.
The undercover journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s alleged baby-parts-for-sale scheme is responding to yet another lawsuit filed by the abortion giant in a federal court demanding further suppression of public records of its fetal harvesting activities.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) tells Democracy Now! viewers that he wants Democrats to come together to ensure abortion business Planned Parenthood is protected from defunding by Republicans.
Democrat presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate, a man who shifted to a fully pro-abortion stance in order to be in sync with Clinton, who believes an unborn baby – up until its birth – has no constitutional rights and can be aborted if that is the choice of his or her mother.
“There is so much we don’t know,” Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, a Johns Hopkins Hospital expert in pregnancy and infectious disease, stressed during a Capitol Hill briefing about Zika. “We don’t know the true incidence among pregnant women.”
The Obama administration is once again threatening officials – this time in all 50 states – that cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding could be a violation of federal law.
Democrat-backing Planned Parenthood has identified Sen. Kelly Ayotte as its first target in the 2016 Senate races when Democrats hope to regain control of the chamber. Planned Parenthood Votes, which is the abortion business’s advocacy group, is launching its first televised
In a strong show of support for Planned Parenthood, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) went to the abortion business’s facility in Richmond itself to veto legislation that would ban the state from providing Medicaid funds to any organizations that provide abortions.
Planned Parenthood is unleashing an ad buy worth $100,000 in Florida to counter a pro-life effort to defund the abortion giant in that state after a series of undercover videos showed the abortion business apparently engaged in the practice of selling the body parts of babies it aborted.
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has been stumping for Democrat presidential contender Hillary Clinton – the abortion business’ first endorsed candidate – in Dayton, Ohio.
The president of Planned Parenthood says Ohio’s new law defunding her abortion business will have “devastating consequences” because the measure is “eliminating care for expectant mothers and newborns.”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a bill that eliminates state funding from Planned Parenthood in the Buckeye State.
GOP 2016 contender Donald Trump insists he would eliminate Planned Parenthood’s federal taxpayer funding because it performs abortions. But he’s defending the other work the organization does, which he claims women understand better than he does.
Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, told Hillary Clinton supporters in Nevada that–because of Obamacare–55 million women in the United States are getting free birth control.
In his State of the State address, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he would “finish the job” of eliminating taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood by blocking its Medicaid funding in Kansas.
The CEO of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, tweeted out an invitation to Hillary Clinton to “coordinate pantsuits,” following the announcement that the abortion-industry leader would back Clinton in the 2016 race.
Congressional Republicans have sent a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, knowing that President Barack Obama has said he will veto it.
