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    These Numbers From New Planned Parenthood Report Show Need to Defund Abortion Giant

    Each year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America issues an annual report outlining the abortion giant’s medical service data, revenue and expenses, and advocacy and educational activity. This week, the 2015-2016 report went public. These reports are typically published in December or January, but this year’s highly anticipated report was inexplicably released several months later than…
    Melanie Israel
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    Horrifying Video From Abortion Conference Shows Utter Disregard for Human Life

    Lawyers for Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden released a new video Thursday that exposes horrifying statements from leaders of the abortion industry during National Abortion Federation conventions in California in 2014 and 2015. The National Abortion Federation describes itself as “the professional association of abortion providers.” The group says it “exhibits and presents at numerous…
    Melanie Israel
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    Undercover Video Exposes Deep Contradiction at the Heart of Planned Parenthood

    Just hours after Hollywood filmmaker Joss Whedon launched a foul piece of propaganda celebrating Planned Parenthood, an undercover video surfaced that reveals a much darker reality about the nation’s leading abortion business. Though buoyed by well over $500 million in taxpayer dollars each year, Planned Parenthood offers little else in medical services beyond abortion—despite its rhetoric…
    Jay Hobbs
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    Congress Right to Affirm That States Can Defund Planned Parenthood

    It isn’t often that Congress moves a heavy burden off the backs of the states and allows them the freedom to be actual “laboratories of democracy.” Yet the Senate did just that Thursday in voting 51-50 (with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie) to invoke the Congressional Review Act to rescind an Obama administration…
    Steven Aden
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    Pro-Life Activist Who Filmed Planned Parenthood Responds to ‘Bogus’ Charges

    The pro-life activists who created undercover videos that triggered multiple state and congressional investigations into Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices are facing more than a dozen new felony charges in California. The charges, brought by the state’s attorney general, allege Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden and his partner, Sandra Merritt, unlawfully recorded people without…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    New York Times Misuses Data to Criticize Defunding of Planned Parenthood

    Earlier this week, The New York Times ran a piece responding to Congress’ current plan to reallocate Planned Parenthood funding. The piece is little more than a recycling of old, problematic studies conducted by a partisan research group, combined with both anecdotal and selective evidence drawn from interviews and media reports. The article also completely…
    Chuck Donovan
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    New Planned Parenthood Ad Campaign Seeks to Defend Abortion Giant’s Government Funding

    After spending over $30 million on the 2016 election, Planned Parenthood has a new project: a million-dollar ad campaign defending its government funding. The organization, which receives over half a billion dollars from taxpayers each year, stands to lose a significant portion of its government funding should Congress pass a reconciliation bill that includes the…
    Melanie Israel
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    Planned Parenthood Will Keep Obama’s Parting Gift Unless Congress Acts

    The clock is ticking for Congress to reverse President Barack Obama’s parting gift to Planned Parenthood. The House acted last month, but the Senate must take action as well to undo Obama’s move. In the waning weeks of the Obama administration, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services submitted a final rule….
    Melanie Israel
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    Latest Court Decision Blocking Texas’ Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Shows Need for Congressional Action

    A U.S. district judge has blocked the state of Texas from cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding. This is the sixth instance in which a court has prevented a state from denying Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood: Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana have also attempted to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for funds. On Dec….
    Melanie Israel
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    Troubling New Videos Show Urgent Need to Defund Planned Parenthood

    Live Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending abortion and protecting the right to life, has released videos and findings that demonstrate the urgent need for Congress to defund America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. According to a report released in January, a Live Action investigation revealed that “Planned Parenthood lied to the media about…
    Melanie Israel
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    Planned Parenthood Still Hasn’t Produced an Annual Report. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.

    The American taxpayer is on the hook to provide money to the nation’s largest abortion provider, so it’s important that we have the necessary information to evaluate its practices. Planned Parenthood releases a report each year highlighting the abortion giant’s medical service data, revenue and expenses, and advocacy and educational activity. The annual reports are…
    Melanie Israel
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    Pro-Life Groups React to Sheryl Sandberg’s $1 Million Donation to Planned Parenthood

    Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg recently made headlines when she donated $1 million to Planned Parenthood. Now, pro-life groups across the country are voicing their disappointment in the tech billionaire’s decision to support the nation’s largest abortion provider. Girls aborted by Planned Parenthood “will never get the chance to, in Sheryl’s words, ‘lean in,’”…
    James Rogers
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    Pro-Life Lawmakers: Planned Parenthood Shouldn’t Get Another ‘Dime of Taxpayer Dollars’

    Pro-life advocacy group Live Action, joined with members of Congress, called Thursday for the ending of taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. “I hope that the sands of time blow over that Capitol dome before we ever give one more dime of taxpayer dollars to this insidious, deceptive, and evil enterprise,”…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    Will GOP Keep Its Promise to Defund Planned Parenthood?

    A number of promises were made to pro-life voters in 2016, not the least of which was that if given control of Congress, Republicans would defund the country’s largest abortion provided, Planned Parenthood. But the only way for the GOP to keep that pledge is by passing the reconciliation bill to repeal Obamacare. The longer…
    Genevieve Wood
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    Conservatives Offer Solution to Repeal Obamacare, Defund Planned Parenthood: Pass 2015 Bill Again

    Two prominent House conservatives are calling on Republican leadership to bring a 2015 bill repealing major parts of Obamacare before members for a vote “as soon as possible.” In a statement Thursday, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina pushed GOP leaders to bring the legislation unwinding major provisions of the…
    Melissa Quinn
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    The Question the Left Won’t Answer on Abortion

    If there weren’t, well, lives at stake, Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s dodging of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s questions about whether abortion was the taking of a human life would be comical. Just check out how often Swalwell (who is, of course, from California) dodged it in an appearance Tuesday night (transcript omits some cross chatter):…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Now Is the Time to Defund Planned Parenthood

    “Life is winning in America,” declared Vice President Mike Pence last week as he spoke to the countless thousands of Americans assembled on the National Mall for the annual March for Life. Pence’s presence at the rally was itself evidence of the momentum behind the pro-life movement in America. Last week marked the March for…
    Sen. Mike Lee
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    A Dad’s Thoughts on Abortion as a Human Rights Issue

    Last Saturday, individuals across our country and in cities like London, Nairobi, Paris, Mexico City, and Sydney coordinated to highlight a spectrum of issues under the banner of human rights. At the Women’s March, advocates for women, immigrants, and education rights coalesced around the idea that advancing their position means making their voices heard by…
    Doug Collins
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    Majority of Americans Want Some Abortion Restrictions, Object to Taxpayer Funding, Poll Says

    A majority of Americans are in favor of stopping taxpayer funding of abortions and banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to a new Marist poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus. “There is a consensus in America in favor of significant abortion restrictions, and this common ground exists across party lines, and even…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    Trump Reinstates Policy Protecting Taxpayer Dollars From International Abortion Activity

    In one of his first official actions, President Donald Trump reinstated the life-affirming Mexico City policy, ensuring that American taxpayers do not fund international organizations that perform or promote abortion overseas. The news comes just after the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on demand across the country. Pro-life Americans are undoubtedly…
    Melanie Israel
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