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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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    Why This Planned Parenthood Clinic Manager Walked Away

    Annette Lancaster decided she had to leave her job as manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic in North Carolina after a particularly tough conversation with a patient there. Lancaster, 41, says she had been recruited by a headhunter to manage the Chapel Hill clinic after losing her previous job. “The turning point for me was…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    Planned Parenthood Report Shows It’s Flush With Taxpayer Cash

    Planned Parenthood’s new president, Leana Wen, recently admitted that their core mission is “expanding access to abortion,” and Planned Parenthood’s new annual report proves just that. Our team has updated our annual analysis of Planned Parenthood’s culture of death to give you the facts on what is being done with your tax dollars. The bottom line? Over 900 babies…
    Tony Perkins
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    A Big Legal Loss for Planned Parenthood

    Thanks to Planned Parenthood’s annual report, more Americans are starting to understand why the country’s biggest abortion business doesn’t need taxpayer money. Texas has always thought so, which is why the state has worked for years to put the brakes on the organization’s government-funded gravy train. Now, thanks to the Trump administration, the Lone Star…
    Tony Perkins
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    Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report Is Out. Here’s What You Need to Know.

    Planned Parenthood quietly released its long-expected annual report covering 2017-2018 over the holiday weekend. The document affirms the assertion of new President Leana Wen that providing and expanding access to abortion is the “core mission” of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood performed 332,757 abortions during the reported year, the most the abortion giant has reported since…
    Melanie Israel
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    A Federal Appeals Court Just Took a Big Swing at Planned Parenthood

    The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction forbidding Texas from stripping Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds Thursday, while stridently criticizing the abortion provider for its rhetoric and medical practices. “Planned Parenthood’s reprehensible conduct, captured in undercover videos, proves that it is not a ‘qualified’ provider under the Medicaid Act, so we are…
    Kevin Daley
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    Podcast: A Former Planned Parenthood Employee Shares Why She Changed

    Today is the March for Life in Washington, D.C., and we’re joined by Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood employee who had a change of heart and is now a pro-life advocate. Plus: Rachel del Guidice shares why she’s been attending the march for the past 13 years. We also cover these stories: A day…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Planned Parenthood Admits Its Focus Is Abortion

    Planned Parenthood’s new president has one thing going for her: She isn’t shying away from the truth. Now that Leana Wen’s taken over for Cecile Richards, she’s finally admitting what the rest of us knew all along. Planned Parenthood may talk about a lot of issues, but it only really cares about one—abortion. After 12…
    Tony Perkins
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    Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Planned Parenthood Case Is a Missed Opportunity

    The Supreme Court on Monday missed an opportunity to bring clarity to an area of the law about which the lower courts are divided: Whether states can prevent Medicaid funds from going to pay for non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood clinics. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the court’s decision not to take up the case,…
    Elizabeth Slattery
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    Planned Parenthood Says It Puts Women First. This Missouri Clinic Proves Otherwise.

    Planned Parenthood claims to put women first, yet the atrocious health code violations found at a Missouri clinic earlier this month suggest otherwise. The abortion giant was campaigning against newly proposed regulations on Missouri abortion clinics when state inspectors discovered a clinic in Columbia, Missouri, was already in violation of existing state regulations. The clinic’s…
    Monica Burke
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    Problematic Women: Planned Parenthood Gets a New President

    Planned Parenthood names a new president and hardly anyone challenges her when she makes an appearance on “The View,” a new study finds alarmingly high rates of attempted suicide among transgender adolescents and teens, misleading hits keep coming against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and a local news anchor brings attention to the opioid crisis…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    New Title X Rule Will Hold Planned Parenthood Accountable on Reporting Abuse

    Since the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule to update compliance with legal requirements of the Title X family planning program, the move has received apocalyptic—and unwarranted—pushback from pro-abortion advocates on the left. The liberal media have predicted the rule would spell “doomsday” for women’s health. Title X is a…
    Rep. Glenn Grothman
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    We Hear You: Climate Change, Wedding Cakes, Social Security, Planned Parenthood, and Transgender Soldiers

    Editor's note: Our interview with a straight-talking climate change skeptic captured a big audience, and this week's roundup begins with that. Unrelated question: Have you been pressured to participate in an LGBT Pride Month celebration at work? Tell us what happened by writing [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you, thank you, thank you for…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Planned Parenthood Frustrated With Arkansas Abortion Law. Asks Judge to Reconsider Again.

    Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case [that could have lead to an outcome] that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to continue offering medication abortions, the abortion organization asked a federal judge to reconsider the ruling. Planned Parenthood attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker Friday to block Arkansas’…
    Grace Carr
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    Exclusive: 56 Lawmakers Ask HHS Probe of Planned Parenthood’s Response to Child Sexual Abuse

    A group of 56 lawmakers led by Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., is urging federal officials to investigate the extent to which Planned Parenthood fails to report suspected sexual abuse of minors. In a letter Thursday to the Department of Health and Human Services, Hartzler and 55 other Republicans ask the agency to probe whether Planned…
    Rachel del Guidice
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