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    New York Times Misuses Data to Criticize Defunding of Planned Parenthood
    Earlier this week, The New York Times ran a piece responding to Congress’ current plan to reallocate Planned Parenthood funding. The piece is little more than a recycling of old, problematic studies conducted by a partisan research group, combined with both anecdotal and selective evidence drawn from interviews and media reports. The article also completely…
    Chuck Donovan
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    New Planned Parenthood Ad Campaign Seeks to Defend Abortion Giant’s Government Funding
    After spending over $30 million on the 2016 election, Planned Parenthood has a new project: a million-dollar ad campaign defending its government funding. The organization, which receives over half a billion dollars from taxpayers each year, stands to lose a significant portion of its government funding should Congress pass a reconciliation bill that includes the…
    Melanie Israel
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    Planned Parenthood Will Keep Obama’s Parting Gift Unless Congress Acts
    The clock is ticking for Congress to reverse President Barack Obama’s parting gift to Planned Parenthood. The House acted last month, but the Senate must take action as well to undo Obama’s move. In the waning weeks of the Obama administration, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services submitted a final rule….
    Melanie Israel
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    Latest Court Decision Blocking Texas’ Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Shows Need for Congressional Action
    A U.S. district judge has blocked the state of Texas from cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding. This is the sixth instance in which a court has prevented a state from denying Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood: Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana have also attempted to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for funds. On Dec….
    Melanie Israel
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    Troubling New Videos Show Urgent Need to Defund Planned Parenthood
    Live Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending abortion and protecting the right to life, has released videos and findings that demonstrate the urgent need for Congress to defund America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. According to a report released in January, a Live Action investigation revealed that “Planned Parenthood lied to the media about…
    Melanie Israel
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    Planned Parenthood Still Hasn’t Produced an Annual Report. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
    The American taxpayer is on the hook to provide money to the nation’s largest abortion provider, so it’s important that we have the necessary information to evaluate its practices. Planned Parenthood releases a report each year highlighting the abortion giant’s medical service data, revenue and expenses, and advocacy and educational activity. The annual reports are…
    Melanie Israel
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    Pro-Life Groups React to Sheryl Sandberg’s $1 Million Donation to Planned Parenthood
    Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg recently made headlines when she donated $1 million to Planned Parenthood. Now, pro-life groups across the country are voicing their disappointment in the tech billionaire’s decision to support the nation’s largest abortion provider. Girls aborted by Planned Parenthood “will never get the chance to, in Sheryl’s words, ‘lean in,’”…
    James Rogers
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    Pro-Life Lawmakers: Planned Parenthood Shouldn’t Get Another ‘Dime of Taxpayer Dollars’
    Pro-life advocacy group Live Action, joined with members of Congress, called Thursday for the ending of taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. “I hope that the sands of time blow over that Capitol dome before we ever give one more dime of taxpayer dollars to this insidious, deceptive, and evil enterprise,”…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    Will GOP Keep Its Promise to Defund Planned Parenthood?
    A number of promises were made to pro-life voters in 2016, not the least of which was that if given control of Congress, Republicans would defund the country’s largest abortion provided, Planned Parenthood. But the only way for the GOP to keep that pledge is by passing the reconciliation bill to repeal Obamacare. The longer…
    Genevieve Wood
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    Conservatives Offer Solution to Repeal Obamacare, Defund Planned Parenthood: Pass 2015 Bill Again
    Two prominent House conservatives are calling on Republican leadership to bring a 2015 bill repealing major parts of Obamacare before members for a vote “as soon as possible.” In a statement Thursday, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina pushed GOP leaders to bring the legislation unwinding major provisions of the…
    Melissa Quinn
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    Now Is the Time to Defund Planned Parenthood
    “Life is winning in America,” declared Vice President Mike Pence last week as he spoke to the countless thousands of Americans assembled on the National Mall for the annual March for Life. Pence’s presence at the rally was itself evidence of the momentum behind the pro-life movement in America. Last week marked the March for…
    Sen. Mike Lee
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    Ryan: Reconciliation Bill Will Block Planned Parenthood Funding
    Stopping the stream of federal funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, will be part of the upcoming budget reconciliation package, House Speaker Paul Ryan said during a press briefing Friday. This important announcement maintains the strong policy stance Congress took in the 2015 reconciliation bill that would have repealed Obamacare and stopped…
    Melanie Israel
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    6 Alarming Findings in House Panel’s Planned Parenthood Probe
    Planned Parenthood affiliates profited by transferring parts of aborted babies to outside organizations in violation of the law, a special House panel has concluded after a yearlong investigation. In a 418-page report released Wednesday, the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives also found that other organizations involved in the transfer of fetal tissue broke…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Obama’s Last Gift to Planned Parenthood
    President Barack Obama has given Planned Parenthood a parting gift in the final weeks of his administration. As reported by The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would prohibit states from blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X family planning services grant money for reasons “unrelated”…
    Melanie Israel
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    Congress Isn’t Finished Investigating Planned Parenthood, Others in 2015 Videos
    Congress took significant steps forward last week in its continued efforts to hold Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue procurement companies accountable for the sale and trafficking of aborted fetal tissue. The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives has recommended a criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast for potentially violating Texas and…
    Anna Higgins
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    Planned Parenthood Entities Spend Over $38 Million to Elect Democrats
    In the past three election cycles, Planned Parenthood’s advocacy and political arms, employees, and their families have spent over $38 million to elect or defeat candidates for federal office who decide how much taxpayers subsidize the nation’s largest abortion provider. “If PP wants to provide Zika services, they are awash in cash. They don’t need…
    Leah Jessen
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    15 States Have Moved to Defund Planned Parenthood Since Undercover Videos Were Released
    In the wake of a series of undercover videos that hit the abortion industry last year, 15 states have attempted to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. After the Center for Medical Progress released undercover video footage that raised questions about whether Planned Parenthood was making a profit from selling aborted baby body parts (Planned Parenthood…
    Leah Jessen
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    3 Ways to Expose the Truth About Planned Parenthood
    Usually the century mark for a person, place, or thing is a momentous and joyous occasion. Not so this time. On Sunday, Planned Parenthood turned 100. Both pro-lifers and pro-choicers are marking the organization’s birthday in hashtags: #100YearsOfAbuse and #100YearsStrong, respectively. But the statistics that have emerged from that 100-year reign are staggering. The award…
    Beverly Hallberg
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    What One Woman Is Doing to Take Down Planned Parenthood
    While Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, is celebrating its 100th anniversary Sunday, one organization is working tirelessly to put Planned Parenthood out of business. CEO Brandi Swindell founded Stanton Healthcare in 2006. According to the Stanton Project’s website, it has branched out from a room in a doctor’s office to an international affiliate…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Planned Parenthood’s 100th (Un)Birthday Is No Cause to Celebrate
    As this month marks Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary, we should pause and consider its destructive legacy. Founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger in 1916, what is now known as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America began as a small birth control clinic in New York City. Sanger was motivated by her belief that artificial birth control…
    Melanie Israel
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