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    Planned Parenthood Does Not Provide ‘Care.’ Its Defunding Was Long Overdue.
    One day, a young woman named Sarah walked through the doors of the pregnancy center I help run and told me she wanted an abortion.  As we talked, it became clear that while Sarah didn’t truly want to end her pregnancy, she believed it was her only option. She had fought hard to escape a…
    Rebekah Cohen Morris
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    Sorry, Planned Parenthood. Congress Doesn’t Have to Give You a Dime.
    When the Founders wrote the Constitution, they unambiguously gave Congress control over federal spending. But Planned Parenthood is now suing the federal government in denial of this fact—claiming the Constitution requires the federal government to give money to organizations that are abortion providers. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution plainly states: “No…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    What You Need to Know About the Judge Protecting Planned Parenthood’s Funding From One Big, Beautiful Bill
    The Massachusetts federal judge who temporarily secured taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood after the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” defunding of the nation’s largest abortion provider has a career steeped in progressive politics and controversial rulings.  U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts imposed a temporary restraining order Monday directing the Department of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Judge Tries to Require Planned Parenthood Funding
    The Left has long looked to unelected bureaucrats and judges, rather than elected legislators, to get its way. Having failed to elect a Democrat president or Congress, they are hoping Democrat-appointed judges will block executive orders and statutes that they don’t like. Rogue judges participating in this scheme are eroding the judiciary’s integrity and undermining…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Judge Defies Congress, Trump on Planned Parenthood Funding
    A judge has temporarily prevented President Donald Trump from revoking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, after both chambers of Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunding the abortion giant and the president signed it into law. Obama-appointee U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary restraining order lasts just two weeks. It directs the Department…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Rules Whether States Can Block Planned Parenthood From Receiving Medicaid Funding
    The Supreme Court ruled against Planned Parenthood Thursday, handing a significant win to the pro-life movement.   In the case Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the justices ruled, 6-3, that South Carolina can legally block Planned Parenthood facilities from receiving Medicaid funding.   Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, in which Chief Justice…
    Virginia Allen | Tyler O’Neil
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    House-Passed Budget Bill Defunds Planned Parenthood
    House Republicans delivered on their promise to defund Big Abortion on Thursday by passing the budget reconciliation bill that has consumed Washington’s attention for the past three months. In the bill, the House GOP removed Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the country. The effort had been supported by dozens of…
    Jacob Adams
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    Abortion, Government Funding for Planned Parenthood at an All-Time High
    Planned Parenthood released its latest annual report the day after Mother’s Day. For 2023-2024, abortions are at an all-time high. So is government funding. Nearly three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states enacted strong pro-life protections, business is still booming. Congress and President Donald Trump can take action—but will…
    Melanie Israel
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    State Legislators From Across Country Urge End to Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood
    More than 180 pro-life state legislators from 49 states have sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to end Planned Parenthood’s receipt of federal funds. The letter comes as Congress is considering restricting, through the budget reconciliation process, federal dollars from going to the nation’s largest abortion provider. “We’re absolutely making it clear to…
    Jacob Adams
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    Trump Pauses Federal Funding for Some Planned Parenthood Facilities
    The Trump administration is following through on its promise to withhold funding from abortion provider Planned Parenthood.  Nine Planned Parenthood regional affiliates received notice Monday that the federal funding they were receiving through the law known as Title X is being temporarily withheld, according to a report from Politico. The administration is looking into possible…
    Moira Gleason
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    Supreme Court Case Could Allow States to Strip Medicaid Funding from Planned Parenthood
    Praise and worship music clashed with shouts of “Abortion is health care” as pro-life protesters and abortion supporters rallied outside the United States Supreme Court Wednesday during oral arguments in a case that could decide whether states can disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.  When South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster disqualified Planned Parenthood from…
    Moira Gleason
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    I Worked at Planned Parenthood for 15 Years—Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Dollars
    Do states have the right to refuse to give taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities within their borders? As someone who worked at Planned Parenthood for more than 15 years and who knows what they do with that money, I can say unequivocally that they should have that right. One of the…
    Mayra Rodriguez
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    Lawmakers, Pro-Lifers Call for Defunding Planned Parenthood Via Reconciliation 
    When Toni McFadden was a senior in high school, she walked through the doors of a Planned Parenthood clinic hoping to escape her unplanned pregnancy and return to life as normal.   But the abortion pills they gave her didn’t work. One month later, she experienced severe hemorrhaging owing to complications and received no help…
    Moira Gleason
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    Trump May Freeze Millions in Funding for Planned Parenthood, Report Says
    The Trump administration will freeze approximately $20 million in funding for Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, the administration will put on hold about $120 million in grant funding for “family planning” as it reviews whether recipients are in violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Withhold Medicaid Funding From Planned Parenthood
    The Supreme Court could soon strike a blow to America’s largest abortion provider. Amid growing concerns about the quality of care at Planned Parenthood facilities and the fact that taxpayer funding is going to facilities that provide abortions, the Supreme Court could effectively decide whether states can withhold taxpayer dollars from the organization in an…
    Moira Gleason
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    EXCLUSIVE: Senators Demand Documents on How Much COVID-19 Cash Planned Parenthood Illegally Received
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two U.S. senators are demanding documents from the Small Business Administration regarding how much COVID-19 relief aid Planned Parenthood chapters received. Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent the letter Friday to Kelly Loeffler, the SBA's administrator. The letter concerns funds from the Paycheck Protection Program, a creation of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Watchdog Debunks Argument Defunding Planned Parenthood Hurts Taxpayers
    Pro-lifers continue to urge the Department of Government Efficiency to defund Planned Parenthood, but they aren't putting all their eggs in Elon Musk's basket. As pro-life groups fight for a provision in the budget reconciliation package to remove federal funding from Planned Parenthood, conservatives warn against allowing pro-abortion misinformation to derail efforts to defund the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Ernst Introduces Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced legislation in the Senate Wednesday to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood after the organization received COVID-19 relief funds. At least $120 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans were provided to affiliates of Planned Parenthood in 2020 and 2021 contrary to “applicable affiliation rules and…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Defunding Planned Parenthood Is a Matter of Life and Death for Black America
    The prospect that American taxpayers, who morally object to abortion, may no longer be forced to fund Planned Parenthood when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, feels promising this time around. And according to Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, the newly slated Department of Government Efficiency advisory committee just might lead the charge to…
    John Amanchukwu Sr.
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    Marketing Life: A Mother’s Journey From Planned Parenthood to Global Pro-Life Movement
    At age 18, Nelly Roach sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic with $246 to pay for an abortion.   “I found myself there, as many many people find themselves, in a place where they don't feel that they have any options,” Roach says.   Roach was born into a Catholic family on the small island nation of…
    Virginia Allen
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