“President Obama’s gall is stunning,” said Rep. Diane Black, author of the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, in a statement. “He spent this week discussing the need to ‘protect innocent people’ and ‘save more lives’ yet he callously vetoed a bill to protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us from the heinous abuses of Planned Parenthood.”
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.
As the House of Representatives readies for a “show vote” on a reconciliation measure that would defund Planned Parenthood, Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released a new video that focuses on the profits associated with harvesting fetal body parts.
The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence tells Glamour Magazine in a new interview that she was horrified about the shooting by a deranged man at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood that left three people dead – which she called an “attack on women” – because she relied on the abortion business to obtain birth control and condoms as a teenager.
Congressional Republicans are touting a bill scheduled for a vote next week that would gut Obamacare’s mandates and taxes and eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in favor of other health centers that do not perform abortions.
Next week, Congress is expected to send President Obama a bill that would both defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare’s mandates and the taxes that enable the law.
A federal judge reversed his prior decision and ruled that Utah has the authority to end its contracts with Planned Parenthood and eliminate the organization’s federal funding in that state.
The American Life League’s (ALL) annual report that surveys all Planned Parenthood facilities in the nation finds the average salary of the 12 national leaders of the taxpayer funded abortion business is $345,338.
Evangelist Franklin Graham announced Tuesday he is leaving the Republican Party following the GOP’s cave to Democrats last week in the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Graham particularly likened the continued taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood in the bill to
The Department of Health and Human Services has opened an investigation – which will include a full audit – of Planned Parenthood’s compliance with federal regulations on fetal-tissue transfers.
A federal judge cited the recent shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood by a deranged man who registered to vote as an “unaffiliated female” as an indication the videos of National Abortion Federation (NAF) conferences – produced by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) – placed abortion providers at risk.
Despite a year on defense following its worst scandal yet, Planned Parenthood hasn’t lost its place at the government trough for 2016, a fact that means the nation’s largest abortion provider has yet another year to push its narrative that defunding it would be “harmful” to “women’s healthcare.”
Though many Republicans in Congress have expressed horror at the apparent activities of Planned Parenthood, revealed through numerous investigative videos, the $1.6 trillion omnibus deal announced by House Speaker Paul Ryan would still give taxpayer funds for the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Actress Patricia Heaton of ABC’s The Middle will headline the pro-life rally OneLife LA in Los Angeles on January 23, 2016, just one day after the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
On Sunday, Planned Parenthood tweeted a link to an article at Fusion, titled “Life in a Magical Land Where Abortions and Birth Control Are Free and Plentiful,” a far cry from even pro-abortion President Bill Clinton’s exhortation at the Democrat National Convention in August of 1996 that abortion be “rare.”
Taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood affiliates were among the 24 nonprofits devoting more than half their total spending to influence elections between 2008 and 2013, in an apparent violation of tax rules, says a new report.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says his office’s investigation into Planned Parenthood reveals aborted babies from Planned Parenthood clinics are disposed of in landfills.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that would strip Obamacare of key tax-raising features and would also eliminate taxpayer-funding of abortion businesses, including Planned Parenthood.
The national director of Priests for Life asserts the pro-life community will intensify its protests against Planned Parenthood and abortion, despite attempts by abortion advocates to link pro-life “rhetoric” with the shooting by a deranged man at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.
Addressing the shooting in Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood last Friday, Connecticut’s Democrat lawmakers said on Monday that verbalizing opposition to Planned Parenthood “can inflame someone who may want to take action.”
Pro-life leaders and members of Congress are focused on statements from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy indicating that a government shutdown over defunding Planned Parenthood is unlikely.
Republican presidential contender Carly Fiorina condemned the “typical left-wing tactics” that are being employed to associate members of the pro-life community with the shooting that occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs Friday.
Planned Parenthood is suing the State of Texas in a fight to continue to receive Medicaid dollars. Officials for the state stopped the abortion provider from receiving these funds after numerous undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of baby parts and tissue. The state’s halt of dollars includes millions in federal dollars it distributes, as well as hundreds of thousands of state dollars.
GOP 2016 candidates Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Ted Cruz have dismissed Planned Parenthood’s announcement of its $20 million campaign against pro-life candidates as a notice coming from a group that “lies” and is lacking in “credibility.”
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to answer a question this week about whether she would support or enforce legislation that protects babies who are born alive during abortions.
“Today we have a clear message for every politician who has threatened access to reproductive health care,” executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) Dawn Laguens said in a statement announcing the “I Vote Planned Parenthood Action” campaign. “You’re about to be in for a very rude awakening.”
Students for Life of America is running an ad that sends a message that Planned Parenthood betrays women. The ad began Wednesday and will run for one week, looping every hour daily from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. at the intersection of 1500 Broadway and 43rd St. in the heart of Times Square.
The six pro-abortion Democrats chosen by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to serve as members of a select panel investigating Planned Parenthood’s activities have received thousands of dollars in contributions from the nation’s largest abortion provider, setting the investigation up for an ethics conflict from its start.
Physicians tell Breitbart News that Planned Parenthood’s claims its primary focus is “women’s healthcare” and that it harvests fetal organs to enable medical breakthroughs are deceptions.
A Florida pro-life group is urging Gov. Rick Scott (R) to live up to his own pro-life credentials by eliminating Planned Parenthood federal funding in the state and redirecting those funds to qualified health centers.
Pro-life Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s administration in Arizona has dropped Planned Parenthood from the list of organizations eligible to receive donations from state workers during the state government’s charitable campaign.
Though the national pro-life community says newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan is committed to its cause, Ryan is warning that he doubts Planned Parenthood can be defunded.
A federal judge is temporarily blocking Alabama from terminating its Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, in the wake of a series of videos exposing the abortion business’ apparent practice of harvesting the organs of unborn babies for sale on the open market.
In the 11th video released by Center for Medical Progress, a Planned Parenthood abortionist in Texas admits she alters the position of the baby during an abortion in order to be able to harvest an intact head for human organ procurement.
Planned Parenthood is getting treated to a fundraiser at an event with a title that is receiving some attention.
While even illegal immigrants and their supporters will complain President Obama has let them down, the same cannot be said for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. Co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life caucus Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said last Wednesday that, for President Obama, “everything is subordinated to the abortion agenda.” Smith referred to Obama as “the abortion president.”
House Speaker John Boehner announced Friday the names of the Republican members of the House who have been appointed to the newly created Select Investigative Panel, which will address the recent Planned Parenthood scandal as exposed in a series of undercover videos.
Agents from the Texas Office of the Inspector General arrived Thursday morning unannounced at Planned Parenthood clinics in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, seeking documents related to allegations of Medicaid fraud.
Rep. Louie Gohmert denounced the mainstream media Tuesday for its lack of coverage of the apparent Planned Parenthood practice of harvesting the body parts of unborn babies for sale.
