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    New Undercover Video Shows Planned Parenthood Executive Haggling Over Price of Aborted Baby Body Parts
    An undercover video was released today allegedly showing a Planned Parenthood senior executive negotiating the price of aborted fetal body parts. The video, released by the Center for Medical Progress, adds to allegations that Planned Parenthood is profiting from fetal tissue donation. It follows the release of an earlier undercover video with another Planned Parenthood…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Senator Fights Back Tears in Emotional Speech About Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Methods
    Sen. James Lankford was on the verge of tears Thursday as he addressed his colleagues about Planned Parenthood’s controversial abortion methods exposed in an undercover video. “It seems the ultimate irony to me that we spend time talking about humane treatment of animals being put down, like in horse slaughter, and we completely miss children…
    Diana Stancy
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    The Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood: An Interview With Rep. Diane Black
    The fight to defund Planned Parenthood is ramping up in Washington following the release of an undercover video showing a top official discussing prices for body parts from aborted babies. In a statement released after the video, Planned Parenthood said the “heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape … falsely portrays Planned Parenthood’s participation in tissue donation…
    Jamie Jackson
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    Scott Walker: ‘We Defunded Planned Parenthood’ in Wisconsin
    AMHERST, N.H.—During his first trip to New Hampshire since the launch of his presidential campaign, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker outlined his resume as a conservative governor of a blue state, including lowering taxes, reducing regulations, and cutting funding for Planned Parenthood. “We defunded Planned Parenthood, which is particularly important these days in light of what…
    Kate Scanlon
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    House Strips Funding From Planned Parenthood Supporter in Wake of Scandal
    The undercover video that sparked a scandal involving Planned Parenthood this week is reverberating beyond the abortion group, costing one of its allies millions of dollars. House GOP leaders had expected the Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin Act to be uncontroversial until the Planned Parenthood controversy erupted and conservative grassroots organizations sounded the alarm. The…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Congress Begins Investigation Into Planned Parenthood, but Lawmakers Shouldn’t Stop There
    On Wednesday, two House committees announced they will begin an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s alleged harvesting and sale of body parts from unborn babies. In an undercover video released yesterday, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, detailed with startling calmness how she chooses to perform abortion procedures in order to…
    Sarah Torre
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    Conservative Lawmakers Vow to Defund Planned Parenthood After Reveal of Graphic Video
    Conservatives in the House were quick to push for defunding Planned Parenthood Wednesday after a video surfaced showing a top official graphically describing the group’s sale of body parts from aborted fetuses. “No taxpayer funds should be affiliated with something that so many people find completely reprehensible,” said Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. Lummis said the…
    Natalie Johnson
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    Congressional Leaders, Governors Pledge Investigation of Planned Parenthood
    Lawmakers have called for an investigation into Planned Parenthood after a video emerged of one of its executives discussing the sale of fetal organs. The Daily Signal previously reported that the Center for Medical Progress released an undercover video on Tuesday depicting Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s senior director of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    6 Scandals Involving Planned Parenthood
    An undercover video was released Tuesday of a top official at Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of organs harvested from aborted babies. But it is not the first time a scandal has surrounded the organization. In its 2013-14 annual report, Planned Parenthood claimed it has “come a long way” as “our movement has come so far in nearly one…
    Samantha Reinis
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    Group Behind Undercover Video of Planned Parenthood Employee Discussing Fetal Parts Sales Defends Video
    Planned Parenthood has issued a statement regarding allegations that the organization is profiting from the sale of fetal body parts after an undercover video emerged of one of its executives discussing the sale of fetal organs at Planned Parenthood affiliates. The video shows Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, meeting with…
    Kate Scanlon
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    2016 GOP Contenders Call for Investigation of Planned Parenthood
    After an undercover video showing a Planned Parenthood employee discussing the sale of fetal body parts was released Tuesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has announced that he has directed the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to investigate allegations that Planned Parenthood is profiting from the trafficking of fetal body parts. In a statement, Jindal,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    In Undercover Video, Planned Parenthood Executive Describes Selling Fetal Body Parts
    A new undercover video shows a Planned Parenthood executive describing the sale of fetal body parts at the organization’s affiliates. The Center for Medical Progress released the video on Tuesday, calling it the first in its “Human Capital” series, “a nearly 3-year-long investigative journalism study of Planned Parenthood’s illegal trafficking of aborted fetal parts.” In…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Drones Provide Abortion-Inducing Pills to Polish Women
    Last Saturday, abortion-inducing medication flew from Germany to Poland on the world’s first abortion drone in order to help women gain “access to safe abortions” in Poland, where strict abortion restrictions exist. The campaign was launched by several reproductive rights groups, including Women on Waves, an abortion support group for Polish women, along with several…
    Diana Stancy
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    Almost a Third of Abortions Performed at Planned Parenthoods
    Planned Parenthood is performing almost a third of abortions in the United States, according to a new report by Americans United for Life. The report, titled “The New Leviathan: The Mega-Center Report, How Planned Parenthood Has Become Abortion, Inc.,” shows that the nation’s largest abortion provider has gone from performing one in five abortions in…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Unions Made Big Donations to Planned Parenthood in 2014
    Unions are donating money to Planned Parenthood, and members who object are often unable to hold their unions accountable. According to a search of union records on the Department of Labor’s website, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union and United Food and Commercial Workers gave a combined…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Since 2010, Abortion Rate Has Dropped 12%
    The abortion rate is declining in the United States, according to a report by the Associated Press. According to the AP, the abortion rate has dropped about 12 percent since 2010. States that have passed laws to reduce abortion such as Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma, have seen a drop in the number of abortions,…
    Kate Scanlon
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    ‘Say What?’ Planned Parenthood Calls Itself a ‘Safe Haven’ for Newborns
    Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is advertising itself as a “safe haven” for newborns. According to Vermont’s Department for Children and Families, the state’s Baby Safe Haven Law “offers you safe places you can give up your baby—anonymously and legally.” Under the Baby Safe Haven Law, parents may deliver a child younger than 30…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Remembering Kermit Gosnell’s Victims by Protecting Other Women and Children From Abortion Industry
    Today marks the second anniversary of the conviction of Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist who brutalized women and routinely killed living, breathing infants in his rundown West Philadelphia clinic. Later today the House is scheduled to vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36, which would limit late-term abortions after 20 weeks, include…
    Sarah Torre
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    Judicial Activism on Marriage, Like Abortion, Can Cause Harms
    Forty-two years ago, in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court tried to settle the abortion debate by declaring the Constitution somehow creates a right to abortion in all 50 states. There is nothing in the Constitution that requires abortion in all 50 states, and that’s why Roe is rightly viewed as an activist decision, as explained in this…
    Ryan T. Anderson
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    Carly Fiorina: ‘Nobody Agrees With’ Democrats’ Abortion Platform
    Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and likely presidential candidate Carly Fiorina criticized the Democratic Party’s platform of abortion on demand during a recent speech. Serving as the mistress of ceremonies at the Susan B. Anthony List’s Campaign for Life Gala in Washington, D.C. last week, Fiorina praised the organization and its supporters for their contributions to…
    Kate Scanlon
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