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    Planned Parenthood Sides With Abortion Over Title X Funds. Here’s What It Means.

    Planned Parenthood is making good on its threat to choose abortion over Title X funds. Title X is a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventive services to low-income Americans at little or no cost. Last week, Planned Parenthood announced that rather than comply with the Trump administration’s new regulations relating…
    Melanie Israel
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    Lawmakers Seek Documents on Use of Taxpayer Funds for Abortion Services

    Lawmakers are asking for the reports on AmeriCorps’ potential misuse of taxpayer money related to abortion services and referrals, as well as building renovations, a letter from ranking members on the House Oversight Committee reveals. Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina are requesting the release of documents from the Corporation for National…
    Audrey Conklin
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    Pro-Choice Groups File Lawsuit Over Missouri Abortion Ban

    Abortions rights activists filed a lawsuit against Missouri government officials over the state's new ban on abortions after eight weeks. Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Paul, Weiss law firm filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, and other state officials in an attempt to block abortion legislation…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pro-Life Activists Respond to Planned Parenthood Leader’s Asserting It’s ‘Not Political by Nature’

    Pro-life leaders pounced after Planned Parenthood's acting president said the organization is not “political by nature” in her first interview since taking over the position. “We are primarily a health care provider,” Alexis McGill Johnson said in the interview with CBS News reporter Kate Smith. “And the idea that we can provide that access depends on…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Majority Supports Requiring Doctors to Care for Babies Who Survive Abortion, Heritage Action Poll Finds

    The vast majority of likely voters support requiring doctors to provide medical care for babies who are born alive during botched abortions, according to a new poll. The poll, commissioned and published by the activist arm of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, found that 76% of those surveyed support such a requirement. “Our polling…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    New York State, Which Celebrated Abortion Extremism, Outlaws Declawing Cats

    Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems incredibly concerned with animal cruelty. But when it comes to newborn babies? Not so much. The man behind the infamous light display for infanticide has apparently decided that it’s mean to declaw cats. Dismembering tiny humans, on the other hand, gets a hearty standing ovation. For American states, it’s a…
    Tony Perkins
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    In Firing Its President, Planned Parenthood Revealed Its True Priorities

    After less than a year at the helm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, President Leana Wen has been abruptly ousted by the organization’s board of directors. She was the first doctor in over half a century to head the organization. Wen’s departure highlights mounting disagreements within the pro-abortion movement about how to frame the abortion…
    Melanie Israel
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    Planned Parenthood Ousts Leana Wen as President

    Planned Parenthood removed Leana Wen from her position Tuesday after she had served only 10 months as president. The Planned Parenthood board voted Wen out of her position Tuesday and temporarily replaced her with the co-founder of the progressive Perception Institute, Alexis McGill Johnson, according to The New York Times. McGill Johnson will temporarily serve as…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    In 2 Months, Texas Law Will Protect Survivors of Abortion

    Texas law soon will protect the rights of newborns who survive abortion attempts and will impose a fine of at least $100,000 on health care providers who don’t give proper care to abortion survivors. “I was proud to sign HB 16 into law, and I am grateful for Representative Leach’s leadership to help protect the…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Makes a Huge Political Donation to Planned Parenthood

    Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is donating $1 million to the political arm of Planned Parenthood as the company wrestles with claims of a conservative bias. “I think this is a very urgent moment where the rights and the choices and the basic health of the most vulnerable women—the women who have been marginalized,…
    Chris White
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    For Liberal CEOs, Abortion Is Good for Business

    As more states pass restrictions on abortion, companies are coming out of the woodwork to oppose them. Recently, some 180 companies “employing more than 108,000 workers” purchased a full-page ad in The New York Times under the banner “Don’t Ban Equality: It’s time for companies to stand up for reproductive health care.” Translation: It’s time…
    Doreen Denny
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    Britain’s Compulsory Abortion Fight Shows Risks of Government-Controlled Health Care

    After doctors in Britain’s single-payer health system recommended that a mentally disabled woman undergo an abortion, a judge ordered the woman—an unidentified Roman Catholic—to have an abortion against her will.  In her June 21 decision, Justice Nathalie Lieven—a judge in Britain’s Court of Protection, a panel that handles cases involving the mentally disabled—declared, “I have…
    Robert Moffit
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    Abortion Survivors Deserve a Voice

    We can all recognize that neglecting an older child is abhorrent and illegal, regardless of whether or not the parents “want” the child. Why should a live newborn be any different? No human being should be deprived of lifesaving medical care because he or she is unwanted by the people in the room. In 2002,…
    Rep. Russ Fulcher
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    Fight Against Hyde Amendment Shows Left’s Abortion Extremism

    You can debate the merits of the Hyde Amendment—but not the point of it. Unless, of course, you’re Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The freshman Democrat has been wrong about plenty of things, but there’s a difference between being wrong and being outright dishonest. On ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” she managed to be both….
    Tony Perkins
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    Missouri Abortion Clinic Licensing Fight Due Back in Court

    Planned Parenthood and the state of Missouri are still at odds over whether or not the state’s only remaining abortion clinic will be allowed to stay open. The state of Missouri says that it won’t renew the license of the St. Louis abortion clinic after three failed abortions that resulted in “additional surgeries and another…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    What 4 People Who Have Been Affected by Abortion Industry Want Planned Parenthood to Know

    Women who have survived abortions and adults conceived through rape want Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen to know that unborn children are worthy of life. Several states have enacted abortion legislation in the past year hoping the Supreme Court will revisit its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and other pro-choice…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Companies Backing Abortion Should Be Careful What They Wish For

    A vast array of corporations have come out in support of abortion in recent weeks—specifically to oppose “heartbeat bills” that ban abortion after six weeks, such as the ones recently signed into law in Georgia, Missouri, and Alabama. Last week, leaders of more than 180 companies—including MAC Cosmetics, Yelp, and clothing-maker Eileen Fisher—signed a letter…
    Nicole Russell
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    Planned Parenthood Suing Trump Administration Over ‘Conscience’ Rule for Abortions

    Planned Parenthood joined several other groups in suing the Trump administration on Tuesday over the “conscience” rule, which would allow health care workers to refuse to conduct abortions due to religious or moral beliefs. The lawsuits were filed in Manhattan federal court over the rule that is set to go into effect July 22, reported Reuters. The Department of…
    Matt M. Miller
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    Judge Gives Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic More Time, as State Maintains It’s Unsafe

    In the battle between patient safety and abortion extremism, score one for Planned Parenthood. In Missouri, where Republican Gov. Mike Parson is going to the mat to protect women, a judge has decided that he knows better than state health officials about the dangers of a St. Louis clinic. Exposing women to life-threatening hazards is…
    Tony Perkins
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    Texas Town Outlaws Abortion, Declares Sanctuary City for the Unborn

    A city council in Waskom, Texas, outlawed abortion procedures Wednesday and declared the city a sanctuary for the unborn. The move was pushed by Right to Life of East Texas and precedes another bill Texas lawmakers are pushing, which would require doctors to care for babies born alive following botched abortions. Abortions are not permitted in the state of…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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