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    Problematic Women: Planned Parenthood Gets a New President

    Planned Parenthood names a new president and hardly anyone challenges her when she makes an appearance on “The View,” a new study finds alarmingly high rates of attempted suicide among transgender adolescents and teens, misleading hits keep coming against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and a local news anchor brings attention to the opioid crisis…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    New Title X Rule Will Hold Planned Parenthood Accountable on Reporting Abuse

    Since the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule to update compliance with legal requirements of the Title X family planning program, the move has received apocalyptic—and unwarranted—pushback from pro-abortion advocates on the left. The liberal media have predicted the rule would spell “doomsday” for women’s health. Title X is a…
    Rep. Glenn Grothman
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    The Left’s Sick Celebration of Abortion

    I thought we had seen it all from radical feminists—and what we’ve seen is way, way more than anyone other than a gynecologist needs to see. Six years ago, Code Pink zealots traipsed across the fruited plain in giant female reproductive organ costumes demanding “respect” for women’s bodies and women’s abortion rights. They called themselves…
    Michelle Malkin
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    ‘Roe V. Wade’ Film Director Describes How Hard It Was Shooting a Film About Abortion

    Filming the new movie “Roe V. Wade” wasn’t easy, co-director Nick Loeb revealed in an interview Tuesday. Nick Loeb, who gained notoriety after fighting with ex-fiancée and “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara over frozen embryos, is co-directing a pro-life film set to hit theaters in January 2019, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The filming hasn’t been…
    Grace Carr
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    California Can’t Make Pregnancy Centers Advertise Abortion, Supreme Court Rules

    The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Tuesday, struck down a California law mandating that pro-life pregnancy centers advertise where clients may get an abortion. The decision, supporters said, confirmed that government can’t compel citizens to promote messages they don’t agree with. “No one should be forced by the government to express a message that…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    All Public Hospitals in Ireland Will Be Forced to Perform Abortion, Despite Objections

    Ireland is reeling after its Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that all publicly funded hospitals in Ireland will be forced to provide abortions. “It will not, however, be possible for publicly-funded hospitals, no matter who their patron or owner is, to opt out of providing these necessary services, which will be legal in this state once this…
    Grace Carr
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    We Hear You: Climate Change, Wedding Cakes, Social Security, Planned Parenthood, and Transgender Soldiers

    Editor's note: Our interview with a straight-talking climate change skeptic captured a big audience, and this week's roundup begins with that. Unrelated question: Have you been pressured to participate in an LGBT Pride Month celebration at work? Tell us what happened by writing [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you, thank you, thank you for…
    Ken McIntyre
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    2 Universities Win Lawsuit Against Obama’s Abortion Pill Mandate

    Two Christian universities won a lawsuit against the Obama administration's abortion pill mandate after a judge ruled it violated their religious freedom. U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett ruled Tuesday that an Obama-era mandate requiring health care providers, including universities, to provide abortion services violated the religious rights of Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids,…
    Grace Carr
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    The Silent Suffering of Fathers After Abortion

    Thirty years ago, at the urging of my then-boyfriend, I had an abortion. He convinced me we weren’t ready to have children, promised we’d get married one day and have children later, said we’d be together forever, and assured me that he loved me. I believed every word. So, on a Saturday morning, I drove…
    Victoria Robinson
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    Planned Parenthood Frustrated With Arkansas Abortion Law. Asks Judge to Reconsider Again.

    Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case [that could have lead to an outcome] that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to continue offering medication abortions, the abortion organization asked a federal judge to reconsider the ruling. Planned Parenthood attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker Friday to block Arkansas’…
    Grace Carr
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    Exclusive: 56 Lawmakers Ask HHS Probe of Planned Parenthood’s Response to Child Sexual Abuse

    A group of 56 lawmakers led by Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., is urging federal officials to investigate the extent to which Planned Parenthood fails to report suspected sexual abuse of minors. In a letter Thursday to the Department of Health and Human Services, Hartzler and 55 other Republicans ask the agency to probe whether Planned…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Minnesota Students Launch Petition for University to Reinstate Abortion Fellowship

    University of Minnesota students are petitioning the university to reinstate a fellowship for medical students that would have them working at and learning the ins and outs of procedure at a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic. “Our hope is that our voices are heard loud and clear,” petition co-author Trish Palermo said, according to the Associated Press. She explained…
    Grace Carr
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    Pro-Life Organization Alleges That Planned Parenthood Covers Up Child Sex Abuse

    A national pro-life and human rights organization alleges in a newly released report that Planned Parenthood covers up for child sex abuse. “Despite Planned Parenthood’s public rhetoric as well as laws requiring it to report suspected abuse, its failure to report has been deliberate and widespread,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Now That Starbucks CEO Knows About Planned Parenthood Funding, Will He End Chain’s Support of ‘Racist Organization’?

    Your tax dollars aren’t the only thing supporting Planned Parenthood—proceeds from your daily coffee may be, too. By now, Starbucks’ grande agenda on social issues isn’t a surprise to anyone, except maybe its CEO. In an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Kevin Johnson seemed completely oblivious to Starbucks’ ongoing relationship with the abortion…
    Tony Perkins
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    Supreme Court Declined to Hear Arkansas Abortion Case. Here’s What That Means.

    This week, the Supreme Court declined to take up Planned Parenthood’s challenge to a 2015 Arkansas law intended to protect women experiencing complications after a medication abortion. The commonsense reform would require clinics that provide abortion-inducing drugs to have an arrangement with a doctor at a nearby hospital. In the case of an emergency, that…
    Elizabeth Slattery
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    Podcast: Ireland’s Abortion Vote

    The Heritage Foundation’s Monica Burke joins us to discuss Ireland’s vote Friday on whether to repeal an amendment that banned legalizing abortion. We chat about the myths surrounding the vote, including that women’s health is dependent on legalized abortion. Plus: Starbucks across the nation closed today for racial sensitivity training.
    Katrina Trinko
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    Thanks to Trump’s New Rule, Fewer Tax Dollars Will Go to Abortion Providers

    Earlier this month, the Trump administration proposed new rules to finally bring federal policy back in line with federal law. This should not be controversial in a republic committed to the rule of law. But this new policy touches the question of abortion, which tempts all three branches of our federal government to turn truth,…
    Sen. Mike Lee
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    New Trump Administration Move Deals Significant Blow to Planned Parenthood

    The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to soon file a proposal that would update regulations of the Title X Family Planning grant program—and likely deny Planned Parenthood millions of taxpayer dollars. The proposal would require Title X grant recipients to maintain a strict physical and financial separation between their family planning programs…
    Monica Burke
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    I Had an Abortion. Here’s the Message I Want to Share With Other Women.

    Thirty years ago, I was a very young, divorced mother of two little girls. My ex-husband, the biological father of my daughters, had abandoned us, leaving me with no support and struggling to make ends meet. It was quite challenging to just put food on the table. I was working 12 to 14 hours a…
    Victoria Robinson
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    Renewed US Leadership Blocks Abortion Agenda at the UN

    For the third time in the past four years, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development has ended in failure—good news for defenders of national sovereignty in the face of hegemonic U.N. pressures. Negotiations concluded last Friday without producing an outcome document, which is the whole purpose of the two-week process. The outcome document would set forth political recommendations for governments to…
    Elyssa Koren
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