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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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    Former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director Wins $3 Million in Wrongful-Firing Case

    An Arizona jury has awarded a former Planned Parenthood clinic director $3 million after she was fired for blowing the whistle on unsafe medical practices at the clinics.  “I hope my case is a lesson to other workers that shows them that the truth will prevail,” Mayra Rodriguez, a former clinic director for Planned Parenthood…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Planned Parenthood Sides With Abortion Over Title X Funds. Here’s What It Means.

    Planned Parenthood is making good on its threat to choose abortion over Title X funds. Title X is a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventive services to low-income Americans at little or no cost. Last week, Planned Parenthood announced that rather than comply with the Trump administration’s new regulations relating…
    Melanie Israel
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    Pro-Life Activists Respond to Planned Parenthood Leader’s Asserting It’s ‘Not Political by Nature’

    Pro-life leaders pounced after Planned Parenthood's acting president said the organization is not “political by nature” in her first interview since taking over the position. “We are primarily a health care provider,” Alexis McGill Johnson said in the interview with CBS News reporter Kate Smith. “And the idea that we can provide that access depends on…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    In Firing Its President, Planned Parenthood Revealed Its True Priorities

    After less than a year at the helm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, President Leana Wen has been abruptly ousted by the organization’s board of directors. She was the first doctor in over half a century to head the organization. Wen’s departure highlights mounting disagreements within the pro-abortion movement about how to frame the abortion…
    Melanie Israel
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    Planned Parenthood Ousts Leana Wen as President

    Planned Parenthood removed Leana Wen from her position Tuesday after she had served only 10 months as president. The Planned Parenthood board voted Wen out of her position Tuesday and temporarily replaced her with the co-founder of the progressive Perception Institute, Alexis McGill Johnson, according to The New York Times. McGill Johnson will temporarily serve as…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Makes a Huge Political Donation to Planned Parenthood

    Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is donating $1 million to the political arm of Planned Parenthood as the company wrestles with claims of a conservative bias. “I think this is a very urgent moment where the rights and the choices and the basic health of the most vulnerable women—the women who have been marginalized,…
    Chris White
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