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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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    Tennessee Stops Sending Tax Dollars to Abortion Providers

    The governor of Tennessee has signed a bill that ends state taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers in the state. “The governor … deferred to the will of the legislature on this bill as amended, and after reviewing the bill in its final form decided to sign the bill into law,” Jennifer…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Nebraska Budget Denies Taxpayer Dollars for Abortion

    The governor of Nebraska has signed a budget bill that defunds Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers in the state. Before Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican, signed the spending package Wednesday, the Nebraska Legislature had failed twice to pass the $8.8 billion budget, USA Today reported. “There is no ‘carve out’ for any organization in…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    7 Key Exchanges as Supreme Court Hears Case of Pregnancy Centers Forced to Promote Abortion

    How far can a state go to promote its views on abortion? Can it force crisis pregnancy centers that support women who face a difficult or unplanned pregnancy to advertise the state’s free abortion program? Can it mandate resource centers that provide counseling, education, and baby supplies to include in their ads a lengthy disclaimer…
    Elizabeth Slattery
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    Planned Parenthood Rakes in Taxpayer Dollars

    Breaking the law doesn’t help your chances for earning federal dollars—but apparently, it doesn’t hurt them either. If there’s one thing Planned Parenthood’s learned over the last few years, it’s that crime does pay. A lot, according to the Government Accountability Office. Despite piles of evidence (some of it from the group’s own mouth) that Cecile…
    Tony Perkins
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    New Report Shows Planned Parenthood Raked in $1.5 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Over 3 Years

    A recent government report has revealed that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received over $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, over 120 House and Senate members sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting information on federal funding for certain organizations involved in health-related activities. The report…
    Monica Burke
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    Your Tax Money Makes Planned Parenthood a Political Kingmaker

    You might never support a pro-abortion candidate, but what if your tax dollars are? There’s more than a little evidence suggesting that’s exactly what’s happening with government-funded groups like Planned Parenthood. Of course, some would argue that the money is spent on services, but let’s be honest. Those tax dollars are also used to expand…
    Tony Perkins
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    California Students Are Fighting to Keep Abortion Pills Off Their Campus

    San Jose State University students are protesting a measure that may bring abortion pills to their campus after the California Senate approved a bill requiring the state’s public universities and colleges to offer abortion drugs at their health centers. “I just can’t imagine it honestly,” Spartans for Life Vice President Miriana Miranda said, according to CBS…
    Grace Carr
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    Pro-Lifers: We Care About Women, Planned Parenthood Cares More About Money

    Pro-life advocates say they care far more about women’s health and well-being than Planned Parenthood does, and that they must make greater outreach to black Americans to end abortion. “Our humanity depends on all of us recognizing the sanctity of human life. Planned Parenthood [is] the abortion industrial company,” Penny Young Nance, president and CEO…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Young Woman Says Her Immigration Lawyers Pressured Her to Get an Abortion

    An illegal immigrant held under federal protection has indicated that lawyers representing her have pressured her to abort the child she is carrying. The illegal immigrant charged that her guardians and legal attorneys, Rochelle Garza and Myles Garza, gave her documents Feb. 6 with information about seeking an abortion, according to recently court papers. The unnamed…
    Grace Carr
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    Here’s How Planned Parenthood Is Celebrating Valentine’s Day

    Planned Parenthood will celebrate Valentine’s Day by staging a protest on President Donald Trump’s budget cuts, alleging that the budget proposal will be damaging to American families and that the administration should think before enacting cuts to certain government departments. The Wednesday protest will take place on the Senate side east lawn, and speakers from…
    Grace Carr
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    Cecile Richards Leaves Behind Brutal Legacy as She Steps Down From Planned Parenthood

    Cecile Richards will leave behind a brutal legacy if she departs from her position as the president of Planned Parenthood. Richards—who reportedly told the organization’s board Wednesday that she plans to step down—pioneered a company that has aborted 7,132,130 babies since Margaret Sanger’s founding of the abortion organization. Planned Parenthood doctors aborted more than 328,348 unborn babies in 2016, and…
    Grace Carr
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    We Asked Women’s March Attendees If They Support Any Limits on Abortion. Here’s What They Said.

    At the second Women’s March held in the nation’s capital on Saturday, The Daily Signal asked attendees about their views on abortion. Do they support any restrictions? Are they in favor of laws that allow for abortion solely based on an unborn baby’s diagnosis of Down syndrome? Watch the video to hear their responses, and…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    In March for Life Address, Trump Prods Senate to Pass Late-Term Abortion Ban

    President Donald Trump called on the Senate to vote on banning late-term abortions when delivering livestreamed remarks to the 45th March for Life in Washington. “I strongly supported the House of Representatives’ pain-capable bill, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide, and I call upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘We Were Crying’: One Woman Shares Why She Left Planned Parenthood

    For Myra Neyer, a mom and former Planned Parenthood employee, there was one defining moment that influenced her to leave the abortion giant. “There was this one girl, young girl—maybe 19, maybe 20, young—she came in, [and] her boyfriend didn’t want any children,” Neyer, who used to work at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Ignore the Scam: Planned Parenthood No Supporter of African-Americans

    Plenty of movements have tried to hitch their wagon to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. For years, people across the political spectrum have claimed him as one of their own—in part because it’s convenient and in part because he isn’t here to dispute it. But no cause is more antithetical to King’s than…
    Tony Perkins
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    More Than 3 in 4 Americans Support Limits on Abortion, Poll Finds

    About 76 percent of Americans support stricter laws on abortion, according to a new Marist Poll, a finding that is part of a consistent trend in data the company has collected in the past decade. While 51 percent of respondents identified as pro-choice, 60 percent of them said they support limitations on abortions, such as…
    Kyle Perisic
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    Why This Survivor of Saline Abortion Wants Congress to Pass ‘Born Alive’ Bill

    As House lawmakers plan to vote on a bill to protect survivors of abortion the same week as the March for Life, one abortion survivor says she hopes Congress passes the measure to save babies who are left to die. “I survived my birth mother’s saline infusion abortion 40 years ago at St. Luke’s Hospital…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    5 Key Numbers From Planned Parenthood’s New Annual Report

    Planned Parenthood’s recently released annual report shows the organization is providing significantly more abortions than adoption referrals. According to its 2016-2017 annual report, Planned Parenthood performed 321,384 abortions but only 3,889 adoption referrals. Planned Parenthood also provided 7,762 prenatal services in 2016-2017, down from 9,419 in 2015-2016. The abortion giant’s excess revenue increased from $77.5…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Problematic Women: Planned Parenthood, Iran Protests, and Celebrity Feminists

    The voices of American feminists are largely absent on protests in Iran, Joy Behar  of “The View” says Trump needs to be “medicated and hospitalized,” Iceland takes its equal pay law to a new level, and Planned Parenthood released its 2017 annual report. All this and more in this week’s edition of Problematic Women, co-hosted with…
    Kelsey Bolar
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