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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 | Melanie Israel
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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 | Genevieve McNalis
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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 | Bre Payton
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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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    Pro-Life Organization Alleges That Planned Parenthood Covers Up Child Sex Abuse
    A national pro-life and human rights organization alleges in a newly released report that Planned Parenthood covers up for child sex abuse. “Despite Planned Parenthood’s public rhetoric as well as laws requiring it to report suspected abuse, its failure to report has been deliberate and widespread,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Now That Starbucks CEO Knows About Planned Parenthood Funding, Will He End Chain’s Support of ‘Racist Organization’?
    Your tax dollars aren’t the only thing supporting Planned Parenthood—proceeds from your daily coffee may be, too. By now, Starbucks’ grande agenda on social issues isn’t a surprise to anyone, except maybe its CEO. In an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Kevin Johnson seemed completely oblivious to Starbucks’ ongoing relationship with the abortion…
    Tony Perkins
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    New Trump Administration Move Deals Significant Blow to Planned Parenthood
    The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to soon file a proposal that would update regulations of the Title X Family Planning grant program—and likely deny Planned Parenthood millions of taxpayer dollars. The proposal would require Title X grant recipients to maintain a strict physical and financial separation between their family planning programs…
    Monica Burke
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    Planned Parenthood Rakes in Taxpayer Dollars
    Breaking the law doesn’t help your chances for earning federal dollars—but apparently, it doesn’t hurt them either. If there’s one thing Planned Parenthood’s learned over the last few years, it’s that crime does pay. A lot, according to the Government Accountability Office. Despite piles of evidence (some of it from the group’s own mouth) that Cecile…
    Tony Perkins
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    New Report Shows Planned Parenthood Raked in $1.5 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Over 3 Years
    A recent government report has revealed that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received over $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, over 120 House and Senate members sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting information on federal funding for certain organizations involved in health-related activities. The report…
    Monica Burke
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    Your Tax Money Makes Planned Parenthood a Political Kingmaker
    You might never support a pro-abortion candidate, but what if your tax dollars are? There’s more than a little evidence suggesting that’s exactly what’s happening with government-funded groups like Planned Parenthood. Of course, some would argue that the money is spent on services, but let’s be honest. Those tax dollars are also used to expand…
    Tony Perkins
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    Pro-Lifers: We Care About Women, Planned Parenthood Cares More About Money
    Pro-life advocates say they care far more about women’s health and well-being than Planned Parenthood does, and that they must make greater outreach to black Americans to end abortion. “Our humanity depends on all of us recognizing the sanctity of human life. Planned Parenthood [is] the abortion industrial company,” Penny Young Nance, president and CEO…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Here’s How Planned Parenthood Is Celebrating Valentine’s Day
    Planned Parenthood will celebrate Valentine’s Day by staging a protest on President Donald Trump’s budget cuts, alleging that the budget proposal will be damaging to American families and that the administration should think before enacting cuts to certain government departments. The Wednesday protest will take place on the Senate side east lawn, and speakers from…
    Grace Carr
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    Cecile Richards Leaves Behind Brutal Legacy as She Steps Down From Planned Parenthood
    Cecile Richards will leave behind a brutal legacy if she departs from her position as the president of Planned Parenthood. Richards—who reportedly told the organization’s board Wednesday that she plans to step down—pioneered a company that has aborted 7,132,130 babies since Margaret Sanger’s founding of the abortion organization. Planned Parenthood doctors aborted more than 328,348 unborn babies in 2016, and…
    Grace Carr
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    ‘We Were Crying’: One Woman Shares Why She Left Planned Parenthood
    For Myra Neyer, a mom and former Planned Parenthood employee, there was one defining moment that influenced her to leave the abortion giant. “There was this one girl, young girl—maybe 19, maybe 20, young—she came in, [and] her boyfriend didn’t want any children,” Neyer, who used to work at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Ignore the Scam: Planned Parenthood No Supporter of African-Americans
    Plenty of movements have tried to hitch their wagon to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. For years, people across the political spectrum have claimed him as one of their own—in part because it’s convenient and in part because he isn’t here to dispute it. But no cause is more antithetical to King’s than…
    Tony Perkins
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    5 Key Numbers From Planned Parenthood’s New Annual Report
    Planned Parenthood’s recently released annual report shows the organization is providing significantly more abortions than adoption referrals. According to its 2016-2017 annual report, Planned Parenthood performed 321,384 abortions but only 3,889 adoption referrals. Planned Parenthood also provided 7,762 prenatal services in 2016-2017, down from 9,419 in 2015-2016. The abortion giant’s excess revenue increased from $77.5…
    Rachel del Guidice
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