Planned Parenthood Presses States to Make Up Federal Funding It Voluntarily Surrendered
Planned Parenthood is pressing state taxpayers into making up federal family planning funds it voluntarily gave up to protect abortion.
Planned Parenthood is pressing state taxpayers into making up federal family planning funds it voluntarily gave up to protect abortion.
Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) spoke on the House floor Wednesday and seemingly called her pro-life colleagues “sex-starved” men who should not be voicing opinions on “women’s issues.”
A second federal judge has blocked a Trump administration rule that prohibits the use of taxpayer family planning funds to “perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning.”
A federal judge said Tuesday he will block the Trump administration’s policy that creates a clear line between abortion and family planning.
The American Medical Association (AMA) forged its alliance further with the abortion industry Tuesday when it joined Planned Parenthood in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new rule that draws a clear line between abortion and family planning.
Battle lines are being drawn as California becomes the first of 22 states to sue the Donald Trump administration over its new rule that denies taxpayer family planning funds to Planned Parenthood because it provides abortions.
Democrat-led states allied with Planned Parenthood are challenging the Trump administration’s new rule that would block about $60 million in family planning funding to the organization because it provides and refers for abortions.
Steve Scalise described Democrats’ support for lawful and limitless access to abortion as an endorsement of the “murder” of babies.
The House approved a resolution to overturn a last minute Obama Administration rule forcing states to provide Title X family planning grants to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
Rep. Diane Black says states should be allowed to divert federal family planning funds away from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
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.
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.
A movement of thousands of pro-life Floridians will hold a press conference Thursday to address the growing concern that Republican Gov. Rick Scott has not fulfilled his promises to their community on pro-life issues.
U.S. abortion-giant Planned Parenthood would keep almost 90 percent of its taxpayer revenue if Congress passed a supposed “defunding” bill introduced by NC Rep. Renee Ellmers, a close ally of the GOP’s leadership.
Kansas loses approximately $370,000 annually in federal Title X “family planning” funding that the Planned Parenthood affiliates in Wichita and Hays – and another unaffiliated facility in Dodge City – had been receiving. The Obama administration acted after Kansas passed a bill that directed Title X “family planning” funds to public health departments and hospitals, shifting it away from Planned Parenthood.
In an exclusive interview, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) tells Breitbart News she is continuing her push to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Though Gov. Scott Walker redirected approximately $1 million of prior Wisconsin funding that went primarily to Planned Parenthood in his state to other public women’s health centers that do not provide abortions, a state lawmaker says there is “more work to do” and is seeking to completely defund the organization in the state.
“The fact that Planned Parenthood performs upwards of 327,000 abortions a year is heartbreaking and barbaric enough on its own,” Rep. Diane Black said in a statement to Breitbart News. “The news that its employees engaged in the selling of aborted babies’ body parts is almost too much to bear and shows that Planned Parenthood’s disregard for innocent human life was even worse than we imagined.”
The House Appropriations Committee’s draft of its fiscal year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill “eliminates all funding for the controversial Family Planning Program, saving taxpayers nearly $300 million.” The bill would also substantially cut so-called “comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention programs,” but double funding for abstinence-centered or Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) programs.