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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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    What 4 People Who Have Been Affected by Abortion Industry Want Planned Parenthood to Know
    Women who have survived abortions and adults conceived through rape want Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen to know that unborn children are worthy of life. Several states have enacted abortion legislation in the past year hoping the Supreme Court will revisit its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and other pro-choice…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Planned Parenthood Suing Trump Administration Over ‘Conscience’ Rule for Abortions
    Planned Parenthood joined several other groups in suing the Trump administration on Tuesday over the “conscience” rule, which would allow health care workers to refuse to conduct abortions due to religious or moral beliefs. The lawsuits were filed in Manhattan federal court over the rule that is set to go into effect July 22, reported Reuters. The Department of…
    Matt M. Miller
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    California Lawmaker Wants to Add Planned Parenthood Phone Number to Student IDs
    Imagine forcing every kid to walk around holding an ad for Planned Parenthood. Well, in California, you don’t have to imagine it. California state Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel is doing everything he can to seal the single largest free publicity deal in the history of abortion: a Planned Parenthood phone number on every student ID. Including…
    Tony Perkins
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    We Talked to Former Planned Parenthood Workers. Their Stories Are Chilling.
    Planned Parenthood employees and educators “celebrate” abortion and do not protect young women, former employees told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a series of interviews revealing graphic details about their tenures with the organization. Myra Kincaid worked as a surgical assistant at a Planned Parenthood in Baltimore, Maryland, from February 2013 to February 2014,…
    Grace Carr
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