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    Report: Gov. Tom Wolf Received ‘Talking Points’ From Planned Parenthood Lobbyist on Undercover Videos
    Gov. Tom Wolf, D-Pa., received “talking points” from a Planned Parenthood lobbyist on the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover videos, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. Wolf administration staff emails provided to the Tribune-Review show that Sari Stevens, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates and PAC, the legislative arm of the three Planned Parenthood affiliates in Pennsylvania, offered…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Meet the Lawmakers Who Will Serve on the House’s Select Panel Investigating Planned Parenthood
    Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced Friday the Republican appointments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., will serve as the panel’s chair. “No issue is more deserving of our undivided attention than protecting the dignity of human life,” Blackburn said in a statement provided…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Texas Takes on Planned Parenthood, Investigates Clinics
    Inspectors from the Texas Office of the Inspector General served subpoenas for clinic records at several Planned Parenthood centers in the state on Thursday, the organization said. Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas said in a statement that “[i]t is long past time that inspectors, not just in Texas but…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Ohio Might Be the Next State to Defund Planned Parenthood
    Ohio could become the next state to defund Planned Parenthood. The Ohio Senate approved legislation on Wednesday that would prevent state and certain federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood. The legislation was approved in a 23-10 vote and was sent to the Republican-led state House for consideration. In a statement, Ohio Senate President Keith Faber,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Texas Governor Defends Defunding Planned Parenthood: It’s ‘Money That They Do Not Deserve’
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says that Planned Parenthood has “very serious legal issues” in Texas. A letter was sent to Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas on Monday notifying them that their Medicaid contracts will be terminated. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Abbott defended the state’s decision to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood…
    Leah Jessen
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    Texas to End Planned Parenthood’s Participation in State’s Medicaid Program
    Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, announced Monday that Texas will end Planned Parenthood’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program. “Texas has stepped forward and shown its unyielding commitment to both protecting life and providing women’s health services,” Abbott said in a statement. “The gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order Preventing Louisiana From Defunding Planned Parenthood
    A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal from defunding Planned Parenthood in the state. “Planned Parenthood is engaging in classic misdirection regarding the millions they have repaid in Medicaid fraud and their own admissions in the baby parts trafficking videos,” Mike Reed, Jindal’s communications director, said in a…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Florida Family Policy Council Calls on Gov. Rick Scott to Defund Planned Parenthood
    The Florida Family Policy Council has launched a campaign to defund Planned Parenthood in the state. In an interview with The Daily signal, John Stemberger, the president and general counsel for the Florida Family Policy Council, said that the statewide campaign is an effort to call on Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to fully defund Planned Parenthood…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Abortion Survivor to Cecile Richards: ‘I Am So Thankful to Be Alive’
    Gianna Jessen wasn’t supposed to live. But she did. Born alive after her biological mother’s botched late-term abortion at a California Planned Parenthood clinic, Jessen was rushed to a hospital after a nurse called 911. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Jessen, now a pro-life speaker and activist, said that abortion supporters must deny her…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Man Behind Undercover Videos: Planned Parenthood’s Change in Babies’ Tissue Donation Policy ‘Admission of Guilt’
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced today it would no longer accept reimbursements for tissue donated to researchers from aborted babies. The policy change comes in wake of ongoing attacks against the organization that were triggered by a string of undercover videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress. Those videos have raised questions about…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    She Worked at Planned Parenthood For 17 Years. Now She Shares Her Story.
    (Correction: This article originally stated Sue Thayer quit. However, she was let go from Planned Parenthood, and the headline and lede have been corrected to reflect that.) After working at Planned Parenthood for more than 17 years, Sue Thayer was let go. Now she’s alleging that the nation’s largest abortion provider “is more concerned about…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Across America, People Protested Planned Parenthood
    Protests outside Planned Parenthood clinics took place across the nation on Saturday.   Spurred by the recent release of undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives, a coalition of pro-life groups led the #ProtestPP events. David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, the organization behind the videos, spoke at the event in Orange, Calif….
    Kate Scanlon
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    Former Planned Parenthood Patient Tells Congress It Should Be Defunded
    A post-abortive woman testified before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Planned Parenthood Thursday that she regrets her abortions, and that she believes that the nation’s largest abortion provider should be defunded.   Luana Stoltenberg told the committee her life “has been devastated by abortion.” A teenager when she had her first abortion, she was…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Liberal Comedian: I Want to ‘Make the Battle Against Planned Parenthood Funny’
    Liberal comedian Kathy Griffin has decided to make the fight to defund Planned Parenthood funny. “I’m going to figure out a way to make the battle against Planned Parenthood funny,” Griffin stated to BroadwayWorld.com. “I don’t know how, but I learned that the way to communicate with people is always humor first.” At Carnegie Hall…
    Leah Jessen
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    Former Employee: Planned Parenthood ‘More Concerned About Its Bottom Line’ Than Women’s Health
    Sue Thayer, a former facility director for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, will testify against her former employer before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. In prepared remarks, Thayer alleges that the nation’s largest abortion provider “is more concerned about its bottom line than it is about the health and safety of women.” “No business,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Center for Medical Progress Founder Previews Previously Unseen Planned Parenthood Footage
    David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, previewed previously unseen footage of a conversation with a Planned Parenthood abortionist during a recent interview on TheBlaze. In the video, Dr. Amna Dermish of Planned Parenthood’s Greater Texas affiliate describes how she performs abortions up to 24 weeks. Dermish described obtaining an intact calvarium,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    House Democrats Move to Investigate Creator of Planned Parenthood Videos
    Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have accused David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, of engaging in “potentially illegal activities” during his undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood. Daleiden has maintained that the Center for Medical Progress obeyed all applicable laws during the course of the investigation. Democrats on the committee released…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Abby Johnson: Planned Parenthood Employees Need to Hear ‘I Love You’
    Abby Johnson loves quitters. In fact, she is one. A former clinic director at Planned Parenthood, Johnson is now the founder and president of And Then There Were None, a ministry to help abortion workers quit the industry. “No abortion clinic workers, no abortion clinics, no abortions. It starts with the workers,” the organization states on…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Judge Orders Arkansas to Pay Planned Parenthood for Treatment of Three Patients
    A judge has ordered the state of Arkansas to continue payments to Planned Parenthood on behalf of three Medicaid patients who sued the state after Gov. Asa Hutchinson attempted to defund the organization. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction mandating that the state continue to pay for three unidentified women—referred to as Jane…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Cutting Off Funding to Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Violate the Constitution
    Some critics of the attempt to stop federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s number one abortion provider, are now making the erroneous claim that to do so would be unconstitutional. However, that claim, as expressed by Drexel law professor David S. Cohen, who says that cutting off federal funding would be an unconstitutional bill…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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