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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 | Scott French
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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 | Robert B. Bluey
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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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    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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