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    Trump’s Opening Shot on Trade, Abortion, Federal Employees

    President Donald Trump took executive actions Monday on trade, federal workers, and international abortion policy. Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, which specifies that federal funds for family planning go only to foreign nongovernmental organizations that agree not to perform or promote abortions as a method of family planning in other countries. “He has been very…
    Fred Lucas
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    Ryan: Reconciliation Bill Will Block Planned Parenthood Funding

    Stopping the stream of federal funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, will be part of the upcoming budget reconciliation package, House Speaker Paul Ryan said during a press briefing Friday. This important announcement maintains the strong policy stance Congress took in the 2015 reconciliation bill that would have repealed Obamacare and stopped…
    Melanie Israel
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    6 Alarming Findings in House Panel’s Planned Parenthood Probe

    Planned Parenthood affiliates profited by transferring parts of aborted babies to outside organizations in violation of the law, a special House panel has concluded after a yearlong investigation. In a 418-page report released Wednesday, the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives also found that other organizations involved in the transfer of fetal tissue broke…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Obama’s Last Gift to Planned Parenthood

    President Barack Obama has given Planned Parenthood a parting gift in the final weeks of his administration. As reported by The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would prohibit states from blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X family planning services grant money for reasons “unrelated”…
    Melanie Israel
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    Congress Isn’t Finished Investigating Planned Parenthood, Others in 2015 Videos

    Congress took significant steps forward last week in its continued efforts to hold Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue procurement companies accountable for the sale and trafficking of aborted fetal tissue. The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives has recommended a criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast for potentially violating Texas and…
    Anna Higgins
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    What a Trump Court Would Mean for Abortion

    The pro-life movement in America is stronger, more sophisticated, and younger than anywhere else on the planet. We know how to write legislation and how to get it passed at every level of government. We can bury Capitol Hill in post cards and shut down phone lines. We have learned how to find pro-life candidates,…
    Cathy Ruse
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    Planned Parenthood Entities Spend Over $38 Million to Elect Democrats

    In the past three election cycles, Planned Parenthood’s advocacy and political arms, employees, and their families have spent over $38 million to elect or defeat candidates for federal office who decide how much taxpayers subsidize the nation’s largest abortion provider. “If PP wants to provide Zika services, they are awash in cash. They don’t need…
    Leah Jessen
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    15 States Have Moved to Defund Planned Parenthood Since Undercover Videos Were Released

    In the wake of a series of undercover videos that hit the abortion industry last year, 15 states have attempted to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. After the Center for Medical Progress released undercover video footage that raised questions about whether Planned Parenthood was making a profit from selling aborted baby body parts (Planned Parenthood…
    Leah Jessen
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    3 Ways to Expose the Truth About Planned Parenthood

    Usually the century mark for a person, place, or thing is a momentous and joyous occasion. Not so this time. On Sunday, Planned Parenthood turned 100. Both pro-lifers and pro-choicers are marking the organization’s birthday in hashtags: #100YearsOfAbuse and #100YearsStrong, respectively. But the statistics that have emerged from that 100-year reign are staggering. The award…
    Beverly Hallberg
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    What One Woman Is Doing to Take Down Planned Parenthood

    While Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, is celebrating its 100th anniversary Sunday, one organization is working tirelessly to put Planned Parenthood out of business. CEO Brandi Swindell founded Stanton Healthcare in 2006. According to the Stanton Project’s website, it has branched out from a room in a doctor’s office to an international affiliate…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Planned Parenthood’s 100th (Un)Birthday Is No Cause to Celebrate

    As this month marks Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary, we should pause and consider its destructive legacy. Founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger in 1916, what is now known as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America began as a small birth control clinic in New York City. Sanger was motivated by her belief that artificial birth control…
    Melanie Israel
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    Margaret Sanger Would Be Proud of What Planned Parenthood Has Become

    Planned Parenthood is about to celebrate its 100th birthday. It’s an odd, and frankly grotesque, commemoration for an organization that is responsible itself for ensuring over 7 million babies will never have the opportunity to celebrate even one birthday. Planned Parenthood was founded on Oct. 16, 1916, by population control advocate Margaret Sanger. Though the…
    Genevieve Wood
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    Pro-Life Groups Fight Obama Administration’s ‘Parting Gift’ to Planned Parenthood

    Pro-life groups are taking action against what they call the Obama administration’s “parting gift” to Planned Parenthood. “This is a political judgment, a parting gift,” Chuck Donovan, president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, said of the new rule that could make it more difficult for states to defund Planned Parenthood clinics. “It’s part of the…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    To Protect Taxpayers From Funding Abortion, the Hyde Amendment Must Be Permanent

    In our Declaration of Independence, the Founders declared that everyone is endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, including and especially life. Science has revealed and affirmed the notion that an unborn child is human life with unique DNA. For more and more Americans, this fact of life is becoming more clear with each…
    Sen. James Lankford
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    A GOP Congress Should Not Give Planned Parenthood Another Dime of Taxpayer Money

    Planned Parenthood has once again proven it does two things exceedingly well—ending innocent human lives in the womb for a fee, and getting American taxpayers to subsidize its operations. How else to explain Congress making America’s No. 1 abortion provider eligible for new funding when it already gets over a half-billion dollars (yes, billion) in taxpayer…
    Roger Severino
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    Zika Funding Might Result in Raise for Planned Parenthood, Despite GOP-Controlled Congress

    Fears are mounting among some conservatives that under a Republican-controlled Congress, Planned Parenthood could soon be getting a raise. “I hope that pro-lifers will wake up and realize that we have major issues when it comes to the U.S. Senate, when we have our ‘friends’ put us in very tough positions,” Tom McClusky, vice president…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    The Numbers That Show Planned Parenthood About Abortion, Not Women’s Health

    As Planned Parenthood looks to spend a record $30 million this fall to influence the November elections and keep its taxpayer funding flowing, Live Action has released a new online tool pro-lifers can use to help counter the kind of propaganda $30 million can buy. Live Action’s new “3 Percent Abortion Myth” video dispels one of Planned…
    Lila Rose
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    Planned Parenthood Wants to Use California Bill to Silence Opposition

    At Planned Parenthood’s behest, the California Assembly has passed AB 1671 on to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. AB 1671 amends a state anti-eavesdropping law to add criminal penalties for disclosing the confidential communications of a health care provider. The bill is designed to silence “undercover journalists” who might have reason to suspect foul play within…
    David Rosenthal
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    Obama’s Parting Gift to Planned Parenthood

    What do you give to a cash-flush abortion business and political ally that has everything? More taxpayer dollars, of course. In his remaining few months in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama has found a new way to direct more taxpayer money to his friends at Planned Parenthood. The Department of Health and Human Services…
    Casey Mattox
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    3 Reasons This Bill to Protect Planned Parenthood Is Bad

    After David Daleiden secretly filmed Planned Parenthood employees discussing the dismemberment and sale of parts of aborted human babies, you may recall, a Texas grand jury indicted him, but not Planned Parenthood, for trafficking human organs. Daleiden is the head of the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, which last year released the series of hidden-camera…
    John-Michael Seibler
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