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    What Miss Tennessee Got Wrong About Planned Parenthood and Women’s Health

    Miss Georgia may have won the Miss America pageant, but it’s Miss Tennessee who probably won Planned Parenthood employees’ hearts Sunday night. That’s because Miss Tennessee, 21-year-old Hannah Robison, helped perpetuate the myth that ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood could hurt women’s access to health care. Asked if Planned Parenthood should continue to receive…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Conservative Group Won’t Support a Spending Bill That Funds Planned Parenthood

    The House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative lawmakers, has announced that it will oppose any spending bill that grants taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood. In a statement, members of the group said: Given the appalling revelations surrounding Planned Parenthood, we cannot in good moral conscience vote to send taxpayer money to this organization while…
    Kate Scanlon
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    9 Things You Need to Know From the First Planned Parenthood Hearing

    The first in a series of hearings about Planned Parenthood kicked off Wednesday in Capitol Hill, with Republicans and Democrats running in circles over whether or not the organization did anything wrong, failing to reach any common ground. “No reliable evidence demonstrates that Planned Parenthood violated the law,” said John Conyers, D-Mich., ranking member of the…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Conservative Lawmakers Criticize Leadership on Planned Parenthood Fight: What Would Be Different If ‘Reid Were in Charge’?

    Conservatives in Congress are gearing up for battle this fall over the issue of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding—hoping to leave President Obama in a difficult position. The goal is to back the president into a corner by forcing him to choose between signing a bill that would strip Planned Parenthood of its taxpayer dollars and…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Will Boehner’s Leadership Be Challenged? Conservative Lawmaker Says It Depends on Budget, Planned Parenthood

    GLEN ALLEN, VA.—For one conservative lawmaker, Congress’s upcoming debate on funding the government and stripping Planned Parenthood of federal dollars could play a significant role in whether a challenge to House Speaker John Boehner is mounted. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., warned that Boehner’s, R-Ohio, future as the party…
    Melissa Quinn
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    Report: Planned Parenthood Has Failed to Report Sexual Abuse

    Planned Parenthood clinics have displayed a pattern of failure to report sexual abuse, according to a report by Alliance Defending Freedom. Alliance Defending Freedom, a non-profit legal organization that advocates freedom of religion, compiled a report that states clinics in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Ohio failed to report the sexual abuse of minors in…
    Kate Scanlon
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    What Happened When 2,000 Democratic Staffers Were Invited to Watch Planned Parenthood Videos

    Pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List invited more than 2,000 Democratic congressional staffers to a screening Thursday of the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover Planned Parenthood videos, which have triggered multiple investigations and calls to defund the organization of its taxpayer dollars. At the screening, fewer than a dozen staffers showed up, and were outnumbered by…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    First Congressional Planned Parenthood Hearing to Take Place Next Week

    Congress will hold its first hearing on the Planned Parenthood scandal following the August recess, the House Judiciary Committee has announced. The first of a series of hearings, titled, “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider,” will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Planned Parenthood faces allegations that it…
    Kate Scanlon
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    SBA List to Screen Planned Parenthood Videos for Democrat Staffers

    The Susan B. Anthony List has organized a screening of the Center for Medical Progress’s undercover videos for Democratic Capitol Hill staffers. The Susan B. Anthony List, an organization that works to elect pro-life lawmakers, will screen each video on Thursday morning for the staffers in attendance. Copies of the full-length videos will be available after…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Why Women’s Health Care Will Thrive When Planned Parenthood Is Defunded

    Planned Parenthood does not offer any women’s health services that are not offered by other health care centers. None. The same services it provides are abundantly available, especially serving low-income individuals in urban and rural locations, while at the same time these alternative facilities don’t perform abortions. Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health…
    Arina O. Grossu
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    5 Takeaways From the Planned Parenthood Videos

    Over the last several weeks, the Center for Medical Progress has released nine shocking undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s gruesome practice of selling organs of aborted babies. People need to watch these videos because they show exactly why $500 million in taxpayer money should be directed away from Planned Parenthood and toward health care providers…
    Melody Wood
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    Networks Still Aren’t Reporting on Planned Parenthood Videos

    Three major broadcast networks have not reported on the Center for Medical Progress’s undercover videos in one month, according to an analysis conducted by the Media Research Center. “In fact, the three broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, haven’t reported on a single video exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted babies during their news shows in…
    Kate Scanlon
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    In New Video, Planned Parenthood Business Partner Defends Abortion, ‘That’s Where We Get Our Tissue’

    The Center for Medical Progress released a new undercover video on Tuesday of an employee of Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc., a company that procures fetal organs from Planned Parenthood clinics. The video depicts a conversation an actor portraying a potential buyer from a human biologics company had with Perrin Larton, the procurement manager for Advanced…
    Kate Scanlon
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    How the 3 Congressional Investigations of Planned Parenthood Will Work

    A Planned Parenthood-commissioned report on the string of undercover Planned Parenthood videos does not appear to have any impact on Congress’s ongoing investigations into the group’s alleged wrongdoings, The Daily Signal has learned. Congressional aides from all three committees investigating Planned Parenthood’s abortion and tissue donation practices confirmed that while they are aware of the…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    ‘Two Key Admissions’ Made By Planned Parenthood, According to Center for Medical Progress

    Planned Parenthood has made “two key admissions” about its fetal tissue program, according to the Center for Medical Progress, the organization behind a series of undercover videos depicting Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of fetal organs. The Center for Medical Progress has sent an open letter to Congress in response to a Planned Parenthood-commissioned report claiming…
    Kate Scanlon
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    4 Ways the Senate Could End Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood

    As the war on Planned Parenthood heats up, so does the Republican divide on how to best go about taking away the organization’s federal funding. Leadership in both chambers of Congress signaled they’re willing to go only so far in their fight to strip the organization of its government dollars—putting them at odds with conservatives…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    What the New York Times Didn’t Tell You About the Planned Parenthood Video Analysis

    The company commissioned by Planned Parenthood to analyze a series of undercover videos played a key role in 2012 to undermine Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Planned Parenthood hired Washington, D.C.-based Fusion GPS to examine videos released by the Center for Medical Progress over the past two months that have raised questions about the sale of fetal body parts. Fusion GPS’s…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Petition for White House to Watch Planned Parenthood Videos Needs Over 80,000 More Signatures

    A recent “We the People” petition is pushing for the Obama administration to watch the Planned Parenthood videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. It still needs over 80,000 signatures for a response from the administration. The online petition forum on the White House website, We the People, has 16,374 people as of Friday afternoon who…
    Leah Jessen
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    Kansas Cut Planned Parenthood’s Funding. Then the Obama Administration Retaliated.

    More people are paying attention to Planned Parenthood’s government funding following a series of undercover videos. But the fight over public funding for the abortion giant has been brewing for quite some time and is likely to get more rancorous. Case in point: Kansas. The state legislature and governor successfully moved to divert $300,000 in public funds…
    Nicholas Fondacaro
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    ‘Planned Parenthood Is Flailing’: Bobby Jindal Fights Back After Louisiana Sued for Terminating Medicaid Contract

    Planned Parenthood announced it will sue Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for terminating its Medicaid contract with the state. “Planned Parenthood is flailing,” said Mike Reed, Jindal’s communications director, in a statement to The Daily Signal. “This lawsuit is without merit and the state will aggressively defend our right to cancel the contract.” The lawsuit is…
    Kate Scanlon
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