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    Even With Removing Margaret Sanger’s Name, Planned Parenthood Is Still Influenced by Racist Founder
    One of Planned Parenthood’s largest abortion affiliates has finally disavowed Planned Parenthood’s founder for “her racist legacy” and her “connections to the eugenics movement.” However, this symbolic bowing to the far left’s “cancel culture” doesn’t change the fact that the organization is still influenced by her inhumane beliefs. Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is…
    Kay C. James
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    States Seeking Bailouts Are Making Payouts to Planned Parenthood
    As Congress gears up to debate another round of COVID-19 economic relief, Democrats are expected to renew their calls for a federal bailout of struggling states. This is a fundamentally unfair request, as many state budgetary troubles are the result of poor fiscal choices rather than the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only that, but a look…
    Andrea Jones
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    Planned Parenthood Fires Top Executive Over Allegations of Racism
    A top executive at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has been fired over allegations of racism. The organization’s board of directors announced Tuesday that it had “parted ways” Monday with Laura McQuade, who had served as chief executive of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York since 2017, The New York Times reported. The news came…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Missouri Planned Parenthood Prioritizes Agenda Over Women’s Health
    Protecting the health of women should be apolitical. Unfortunately, the nation’s largest abortion business is more interested in pursuing its own agenda than in protecting patients. Lawyers for Planned Parenthood sought, and just obtained, an administrative ruling to allow its abortion business in St. Louis, Missouri, which didn’t meet the state’s safety standards and violated state law, to…
    Jeanne Mancini
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    Twitter Official Overseeing Misinformation Efforts Is Anti-Trump Partisan Who Donated to Planned Parenthood
    The Twitter official overseeing the tech company’s efforts to combat misinformation is a left-wing partisan who in the past has derided President Donald Trump as a “wretched orange man” and said he donated to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site security, is the man in charge of the…
    Peter Hasson
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    Legislators, Pro-Life Advocates Denounce Planned Parenthood Receiving $80 Million in Coronavirus Funding
    Lawmakers and pro-lifers slammed Planned Parenthood following a report from Fox News saying that the nation’s largest abortion provider applied for and received over $80 million in coronavirus funding. Fox News’ "Tucker Carlson Tonight" reported Tuesday evening that 37 Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received a total of $80 million in coronavirus funding loans from the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    How Planned Parenthood Is Benefiting From COVID-19 Pandemic
    Staying home is supposed to keep people safe. But for unborn babies, even lockdowns have their risks. Any house can be an abortion clinic, Planned Parenthood wants people to know. You just have to call for pills. “It’s actually a silver lining in this pandemic,” acting Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill-Johnson insisted to Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman….
    Tony Perkins
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Denies COVID-19 Funds to Planned Parenthood
    The Trump administration has acted to ensure that no funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program, set up to assist small businesses battered by COVID-19, will go to Planned Parenthood.  “President Trump is committed to ensuring Paycheck Protection Program money is used for saving jobs at small businesses, not getting the government into the business…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Pro-Lifers Should Get Same Access to Schools as Planned Parenthood Does
    Many of the political and cultural trends that are anathema to traditional values or free-market conservatism in society today can be traced back to a lack of education, poor education, or education rooted in progressive bias. One college group, Students for Life of America, is attempting to do its part in upending that cycle. Students…
    Nicole Russell
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    Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortions in a Single Year
    It’s been a turbulent last two years at Planned Parenthood, with a leadership shake-up involving the ouster of Dr. Leana Wen as president, and the installment of Alexis McGill Johnson as acting president. But that upheaval didn’t stop Planned Parenthood from having a banner year in providing abortion on demand, as its new report shows….
    Melanie Israel
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    New Planned Parenthood Report Shows Increase in Abortions
    The Planned Parenthood Federation of America aborted 345,672 babies during the 2018 fiscal year, the organization’s annual report shows. Planned Parenthood’s 2018-2019 annual report shows that the organization performed 12,915 more abortions during the 2018 fiscal year than the organization did between 2017-2018. The nation’s largest abortion provider performed 345,672 abortions between Oct. 1, 2017, and Sept. 30, 2018,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood Targets Los Angeles High Schoolers
    Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday a plan to open 50 health centers at Los Angeles high schools. The nation’s largest abortion provider plans to spend millions to build “Wellbeing Centers” that target high schoolers in Los Angeles County and aims to “create a safe space in each school where students can receive the education and health…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    In a Blue State, Parents Beat Planned Parenthood’s Sex Ed Push
    Worcester, the second largest city in solidly blue Massachusetts, was the scene of a sex ed showdown between Planned Parenthood and concerned parents and church leaders. Last February, more than 75 of those parents and church leaders stood up alongside the Massachusetts Family Institute to outnumber pro-Planned Parenthood voices at a meeting of a local…
    Michael King
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    Missouri Has One Abortion Clinic. Here’s What’s Going On in Planned Parenthood’s Fight to Keep It Open.
    Planned Parenthood is fighting to keep the last abortion clinic in Missouri open as health officials say that the clinic violated mandated health requirements and that the clinic refused to cooperate with mandated inspections. Planned Parenthood maintains that anti-abortion government officials seek to eradicate the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood Secretly Builds ‘Megaclinic’ About 10 Miles From Embattled Abortion Facility
    Planned Parenthood secretly has built an 18,000-square-foot “megaclinic” in southern Illinois, 10 to 15 miles from the last abortion clinic in neighboring Missouri, which is in a fight to keep its license.  The nation’s largest abortion provider built the nearly complete facility in secret to circumvent protests and other setbacks that could suspend construction, said…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Republican Lawmakers Warn FDA Against Planned Parenthood’s Call to Remove Restrictions on Abortion Drugs
    Republican lawmakers opposed Planned Parenthood’s call to remove restrictions on at-home abortion drugs in a Wednesday letter provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks joined other lawmakers in calling on the Food and Drug Administration to “mandate collecting complete, accurate information on all adverse events related to” mifepristone—a drug used…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood Advised Hollywood Over 150 Movies, Shows Since 2014, Director Says
    Planned Parenthood advised Hollywood on more than 150 productions since 2014 as part of an effort to influence the abortion dialogue, a director at the nonprofit said. The nation’s largest abortion provider is losing the abortion battle in Washington but is upping its game through Hollywood, freelance journalist Nora Caplan-Bricker wrote Monday in The Washington Post…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pence Says He Can’t Recall ‘Greater Honor’ Than Casting Final Vote to Defund Planned Parenthood
    Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday evening that he doesn't think he has had “a greater honor than to cast the tie-breaking vote to defund Planned Parenthood.” The vice president spoke at a gala celebrating the 40th anniversary of Concerned Women for America, an organization that calls itself “the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization”…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    2 Ohio Planned Parenthood Clinics Shut Down After Withdrawal From Title X
    Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio have shut down following the organization’s withdrawal from the federal family funding program Title X. The Cincinnati, Ohio, clinics will be closing after Planned Parenthood formally withdrew from Title X in August, thereby forgoing about $60 million a year. A Planned Parenthood spokesman told ABC News that the Cincinnati clinics that…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Women Don’t Need Planned Parenthood to Get Affordable Care
    The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a very curious health care provider. Begun long ago as a birth control organization when contraceptives were contraband, the organization evolved rapidly to adapt to the themes that preoccupied its famed leaders.  First, of course, was Margaret Sanger, who combined her commitment to birth control with an embrace…
    Chuck Donovan
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