Tag Archives: Group: Planned Parenthood

Jeremy Dys writes at the Engage Family Blog: “Downtown, 134 lawmakers took the time to affirm the life-saving, women’s health-loving, family-supporting work of the thousands of staff and volunteers who support their local PCC (maybe you call them Crisis Pregnancy Centers). Uptown, supporters of an unfettered abortion industry dodged the rain and the use of the word “abortion” except to point out how mean “anti-abortion” people were and how Planned Parenthood – who performed more than 330,000 abortions in 2009 – does not use Federal Funding to perform abortions (note how they never deny doing them, just not using your tax dollars to do it). I feel sorry for PP, what with all the scandal and proposed cuts in funding! So, I’m offering them some advice to help them tighten their budgetary belts and, while I’m at it, put a few fallacies to rest. So, here’s what I might tell Planned Parenthood if I were their budget analyst . . . ”

LifeNews: “The Planned Parenthood abortion business is rolling out a new television commercial designed to persuade members of the Senate to support the continuation of its taxpayer funding.”

Chicago Tribune: “The University of Iowa allowed one of its doctors to violate the school’s non-compete agreement to resign to work for Planned Parenthood as long as she continued to train students on abortion and other procedures, according to a legal agreement released to The Associated Press.”

World Net Daily: Only one allegation shook Kline out of his studied cool. When Hazlett asked him to confirm whether he had launched his investigation without a definitive complaint, Kline answered in the sarcastic affirmative, “Yes, a child has not come forward and reported that my rape had not been reported by Dr. Tiller.” Although Tiller was murdered after being cleared in a sham trial staged half-heartedly by Kline’s Democratic successor as attorney general, Planned Parenthood still faces the 23 felony counts brought by Kline.The motivation behind this legal grotesquerie seems to be that, if Kline is found culpable, no one will have the will to pursue the charges against Planned Parenthood.

LifeNews: “A few dozen leaders of pro-life organizations sent House Speaker John Boehner a letter on Thursday asking him to fight for the Pence Amendment — the legislative language preventing the Planned Parenthood abortion business from receiving any taxpayer funds under the Continuing Resolution.”

LifeNews: “Reeling from a vote in the House of Representatives that would deny any and all taxpayer funding, the Planned Parenthood abortion business is turning to its non-abortion “services” to defend the need for the government dole.”

LifeNews: “A new report the Planned Parenthood national abortion business recently released shows the embattled agency did more abortions in 2009 than it has done in any prior year. The report also shows it providing fewer pregnant women with non-abortion services.”

Fox News: “Six followers of anti-abortion activist Randall Terry were arrested Wednesday outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner. The protesters were demanding that Boehner, himself a staunch opponent of abortion, not give in to the Senate on the issue of defunding Planned Parenthood.”

LifeNews: “As the hearings into bogus ethics charges filed against former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline went into their second day, news surfaced showing a report exonerating Kline and his abortion probe of Planned Parenthood had been concealed for months.”

The Midwest Democracy Project: “Phill Kline took the stand Monday to face allegations that he misled and defied judges, mishandled evidence and said too much to Bill O’Reilly throughout his long investigation of Kansas abortion clinics.”

Life News: “In two recent interviews responding to the national videos that have received so much attention, former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director Abby Johnson says the abortion business has a history of tolerating sex trafficking.”

AZCapitolTimes: “The Arizona House on Monday is scheduled to consider bills to place new restrictions on abortions, including steps that Planned Parenthood Arizona says would force it to drop medication abortions in its clinics outside the Phoenix and Tucson areas.”

MLive.com: “Mlive readers had strong feelings and many comments about U.S. Rep. Justin Amash’s decision to vote “present” rather than yea or nay on a controversial amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.”

LifeNews: “So, you know, my bottom line is, that uh, I think that Planned Parenthood in the past has done good work. If there was a specific problem at this center, it should be addressed,” Obama continued.

ouse members approved the Pence amendment on a 240-185 vote with 9 Democrats joining most Republicans to support de-funding the abortion business. Another 7 Republicans sided with most all of the pro-abortion Democrats in the lower chamber in voting for the pro-abortion organization to receive taxpayer funds.”

Christian Newswire: “In response to videos produced by Live Action showing Planned Parenthood workers willing to conspire in sex trafficking, Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) joined other members in calling for the defunding of that organization. At a news conference last week hosted by Live Action and Susan B. Anthony List, Stearns stated that he plans to call the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, to testify on taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and that organization’s tolerance of sex trafficking and other criminal activities.”

Stuart Shepard reports at Citizen Link (Audio).

Christian Newswire: “The half million members of Concerned Women for America (CWA) demand that Congress immediately cease all funding of Planned Parenthood and we call on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Planned Parenthood’s role in aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of minors . . . ”

Midlandsconnect.com: “Health insurance companies would only be able to offer coverage of abortions if people pay a separate premium in South Carolina under a proposal that critics say would effectively end all insurance for the procedures.”

Americans U. for Life: “Telemed abortions” have made headlines in the last year, and with that attention AUL has received numerous requests from state legislators and policy groups seeking to curb the practice. While this issue is so “hot,” states have the perfect opportunity to protect women by regulating the provision of abortion-inducing drugs.

LifeSiteNews: “But in Kansas, a very different scenario is unfolding, one that pro-life activists plan to expose in a webcast Tuesday night. State officials are seeking to strip the law license of former Attorney General Phill Kline for pursuing his criminal case against Planned Parenthood’s cover-up of child rape, the only case of its kind against the abortion giant in U.S. history.”

Politico: “Under the GOP’s current spending proposal, a program, called Title X, will be slashed completely, drastically reducing the services family-planning clinics can provide, including cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and contraception for low-income women, Democrats say. Last year, the program cost $317 million.”

LifeNews: “Local pro-life advocates snapped pictures of an ambulance arriving at the St. Louis Planned Parenthood and a woman on a gurney placed in the back of the emergency vehicle and taken to a local hospital. The woman’s head was covered and her body was motionless — leading pro-life advocates to believe the abortion may have claimed her life.”

LifeNews: “Congressman Mike Pence is gaining more support for his bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood, but the head of the nation’s biggest abortion business is pushing back and defending it from criticism over videos showing its staff helping sex traffickers victimize young girls with abortions.”

LifeNews: “A newly-uncovered police report concerning a September 2008 incident reveals staff at a Kennewick, Washington Planned Parenthood doing everything possible to arrange an abortion for a 14-year-old girl who had been a victim of statutory rape by a 20-year-old man.”

PRNewswire: “The following is being released by ParentalRights.org: Last week, Planned Parenthood of Montana, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Human Rights Campaign spoke against a resolution in Montana’s Senate Judicial Committee urging Congress to adopt the Parental Rights Amendment (PRA) and send it to the States for ratification.”

Christian Newswire: “Society establishes hotline and issues guidelines for pro-life protests on Valentine’s Day against government funding for Planned Parenthood, after videos show it aids & abets sex traffickers.”

LifeSiteNews: A coalition of many of the country’s most prominent pro-life organizations, under the name of “Expose Planned Parenthood,” is sponsoring a “vigil for victims of underage sex trafficking” this Monday. The event seeks to put a pro-life presence in front of every single Planned Parenthood facility across the country.

LifeNews: “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be called on by pro-life lawmakers in the House of Representatives to testify on the Planned Parenthood abortion business in light of the new videtapes epxosing it helping sex traffickers.”

Michelle Malkin writes at Townhall: “Planned Parenthood is a $1-plus billion business that rakes in one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. Congress has interrogated banking, energy, health insurance, tobacco and oil execs — treating them like serial killers before the cameras. When will they finally de-fund a corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?”

“Over the past week, Live Action has released six videos revealing Planned Parenthood’s willingness to aid and abet the sex traffickers of underage girls. Since the beginning of our release, Planned Parenthood has attacked our organization and attempted to discredit the growing evidence of institutional and rampant abuse cover up. Here is a top six list of some of the deceiving statements that Planned Parenthood has made in just the past few days . . . ”

“Planned Parenthood abortion centers in three states have been caught on undercover video footage ignoring alleged sex traffickers and a new audio file Live Action released today adds a District of Columbia abortion clinic to the list.”

LifeNews: “The networks refused to acknowledge these stings. But it’s not a matter of journalistic principle, objecting to hidden cameras. It’s all about politics.”

AZ Republic: “This year, legislation is aimed at furthering restrictions on an increasingly popular prescription abortion pill as well as preventing doctors from using remote video technology to serve rural patients seeking abortions.”

Reuters: “Planned Parenthood will retrain staff in all clinics on reporting risks to minors’ welfare and tighten disciplinary action to terminate staff in any confirmed instances where policies are not followed, the organization said on Tuesday.”

LifeNews: “In light of a slew of new videos showing officials at local centers of the nation’s largest abortion business helping sex traffickers, a New Hampshire legislator has filed a bill to cut off state taxpayer funding.”

LifeNews: “A new video in a series of undercover investigations reveal staff at a New York City Planned Parenthood abortion business going further than centers in New Jersey and Virginia in helping alleged sexual traffickers.”

LifeNews: “A new memo ironically uncovered by a liberal, pro-abortion blog is making the case a conservative web site has advanced that the Centers for Disease Control purposefully delayed issuing its normal annual report on abortion figures in the United States.”

LifeNews: “Live Action released today three more videos from the undercover investigations it conducted earlier this month of Planned Parenthood abortion centers helping alleged sex traffickers obtain abortions for underage girls.”

LifeNews: “Following the release of a video that has received nationwide attention showing Planned Parenthood staff at a New Jersey abortion center helping alleged sexual traffickers cover up their crimes with abortions and STD testing, Governor Chris Christie has vetoed a bill funding Planned Parenthood.”

Fox News: “The recent release of an undercover video exposing duplicity and potential criminality by an employee of Planned Parenthood is an outrage,” Pence said. “The time to deny any and all funding to Planned Parenthood is now.”

Businesswire.com: “Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher Institute has disclosed that a Delaware abortion provider has admitted to greatly underreporting the number of abortions it performs each year—including in statistics that it provided to Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS).”

LifeNews: “The New Jersey state health department will investigate a shady abortion business a Planned Parenthood official mentioned in an investigative video showing staff at Perth Amboy Planned Parenthood aiding sex traffickers.”

LifeNews: “The popular video sharing web site YouTube is threatening to censor a new video that exposes how a Planned Parenthood center in New jersey aided and assisted actors in an undercover investigation with sexual trafficking of minors.”

LifeNews: “A second videotape has been released showing a Planned Parenthood abortion business covering up an alleged sex trafficking ring. The first tape showed staffers in New Jersey engaged in the coverup and this one features a clinic in Virginia.”

John McCormack writes at the Weekly Standard: “It’s like, you know, she’s still entitled to care without mom knowin’ . . . ” says Woodruff. As shocking as Woodruff’s words may be, they’re actually a concise summary of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s 2004 ruling that invalidated the state’s parental consent law. Despite the court’s decision to enshrine a right to abortion-on-demand for teens, the Planned Parenthood employee is still willing to run afoul of laws against covering up statutory rape and sex trafficking.

Media Matters: “The Alliance Defence Fund, a Christian legal group, has given her free legal advice; she is receiving support from the Washington, D.C.-based CRC Public Relations, a conservative PR firm that played a role in the Swift Boat Veterans …

LifeNews: “A new undercover video shows Planned Parenthood officials, in New Jersey, telling a pimp and his prostitute assistant how they can get abortions for young teenage girls who Planned Parenthood officials are informed are Asians in the country illegally and forced into the sex trade.”

LifeNews: “The nation’s largest abortion business has been caught in video in an undercover investigation covering up for and coaching a man and a woman posing as sex traffickers and inquiring about how to obtain abortions for the women they victimized.”

Montana Standard: “Emotions ran high Friday at a hearing on a bill that would require all women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion. Besides making ultrasounds mandatory, House Bill 280, by Rep. Pat Ingraham, R-Thompson Falls, would require medical providers to read the ultrasound results to women seeking abortions, although women could legally avert their eyes from the images.”

Palo Alto Daily News: “Planned Parenthood wants to open a new facility on El Camino Real in Redwood City, but at least one neighbor won’t put out the welcome mat.”

Boston.com (AP): “Planned Parenthood, a perennial protest target because of its role in providing abortions, has notified the FBI that at least 12 of its health centers were visited recently by a man purporting to be a sex trafficker but who may instead be part of an attempted ruse to entrap clinic employees.”

Kathryn Jean Lopez writing at National Review Online: “Has our financial mess brought us to the brink of getting beyond the culture wars? It’s a question that we might see play out on Capitol Hill in the coming months as the new majority seeks to make the late pro-life congressman Henry Hyde proud, by defunding Planned Parenthood and prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion.”

LifeNews: “Lincoln Sen. Tony Fulton has introduced his bill to ensure the controversial practice of telemed abortions don’t cross state lines from Iowa to Nebraska.”

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LifeNews: “85 regions or affiliates aligned with Planned Parenthood must operate an abortion center by 2013 — which would ensure all 820 Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide either do abortions or provide abortion referrals to a Planned Parenthood abortion center. For the state of New Jersey, that could mean three additional abortion centers in the state.”

NJ.com: “The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has announced a national expansion that could double the number of abortion clinics it operates in New Jersey from three to six by 2013 and provide a wider array of health care for the tens of thousands of uninsured or low-income people it serves.”

LifeNews: “Residents of the area and pro-life people from all over the Detroit Metro area will voice their opposition to the proposed Planned Parenthood abortion business at the recently-purchased location of 1625 N. Opdyke Road at a Saturday rally. at 1:00 p.m.”

Orange County Roman Catholic Examiner: “Diocese of Orange parishes will be coordinating anti-abortion demonstrations next Saturday January 22nd. Targets are Planned Parenthood (PP) facilities all over Orange County.”

Des Moines Register: “Iowa medical regulators have declined to punish a Planned Parenthood doctor for using a long-distance video system to provide abortion pills by remote control.”

KTVB.com (includes video): “A new Idaho law enacted in 2010 is designed to protect medical professionals by allowing them to refuse health care services that conflict with their religious, moral or ethical principles.
But Planned Parenthood says a Nampa pharmacist acted in the wrong and was not protected by the law when he refused to fill a prescription.”

Pro-Life Action League: The fact is, abortion rates haven’t gone up in the region of the country where pro-life activism is most common: the Midwest, where 85% of abortion providers report “harassment” (i.e., life-saving pro-life activism). Rates there have declined 6%. An exception within the region is Illinois, where the abortion rate rose 9%.

LifeNews: “A pro-life group that monitors corporate donations to Planned Parenthood is urging pro-life people attending the March for Life to not make reservations at hotels that support the abortion business.”

“It is morally wrong to end an unborn human life by abortion. It is also morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to promote abortion at home or abroad.”

FRC Washington Update: “Rep. Pence’s bill would ban groups that perform, or provide funds to another entity that performs, abortions from taking Title X money. Planned Parenthood raked in $657.1 million from taxpayers in 2002-2008, mostly through Title X. To try to avoid this scrutiny during tough economic times, Planned Parenthood didn’t release its 2008-2009 annual report until right before Christmas–months after they usually do. What were they trying to hide?”

CNSNews: “Specifically, Planned Parenthood’s Web site announced the group is preparing to launch a nationwide ‘social change initiative’ to end the ‘stigma and shame about sex’ in American culture.”

The Columbian: “Catholic Community Services of Lane County will stop accepting money from United Way because the organization gives money to Planned Parenthood of Southwest Oregon.”

“[The judge] said abortion practitioners should not face prison sentences for failing to comply with it. He also removed a section allowing parents to file a civil lawsuit against abortion practitioners who don’t comply seeking financial damages.”

Christian Telegraph: “An Ohio judge has ruled a Planned Parenthood affiliate violated a state law involving an under-age girl in another example of misconduct uncovered among the abortion giant’s centers . . . ‘The health and safety of young girls is more important than Planned Parenthood’s desire to perform an abortion,’ said Brian Hurley, an Alliance Defense Fund-affiliated lawyer who is representing the girl’s parents in the case.”

LifeNews: “In ‘UnPlanned,’ Johnson tells the dramatic story of the journey that unfolded as a result of that fateful day in September 2009 and how she literally ‘crossed the fence’ from Planned Parenthood leader to an advocate fighting for women in crisis – and the lives of their unborn babies.”

Townhall (Baptist Press): “An Ohio judge has ruled a Planned Parenthood affiliate violated a state law involving an under-age girl in another example of misconduct uncovered among the abortion giant’s centers . . . ‘The health and safety of young girls is more important than Planned Parenthood’s desire to perform an abortion,’ said Brian Hurley, an Alliance Defense Fund-affiliated lawyer who is representing the girl’s parents in the case.”

LifeNews: “A Texas-based Planned Parenthood affiliate has resigned as a member of the national organization because Planned Parenthood Federation of America wanted it to do abortions.”

WorldNetDaily: “Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio Region violated a state law requiring ‘informed consent’ before performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl in March 2004, according to an Ohio court . . . ‘The court made the right decision at this point in the case, and we look forward to ultimate success once the trial is over,’ said Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel [Matt Bowman] in the news release.”

Des Moines Register: “Abortion opponents continue pressing state medical regulators to stop Planned Parenthood from using a remote-control system to provide abortion pills at small-town clinics around the state.”

Michael J. New writing at National Review Online: “Earlier this week, the Washington Post ran an article about a new study disputing the contention that abortions increase the risk of mental-health problems among women. This study, conducted by Julia Steinberg of UC–San Francisco and Lawrence Finer of the Guttmacher Institute, appeared in the October 2010 issue of Social Science and Medicine. It is somewhat surprising that the authors decided to publish this study in an independent, peer-reviewed journal. All too often, researchers who support legal abortion are content to have their analyses appear in the Guttmacher Institute’s own publications.”

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Kathryn Jean Lopez writing at National Review Online / The Corner: “A pro-life Hill aide points out more Omnibus outrageousness: ‘$327 million is allocated for the Title X Family Planning Program which provides funding to groups like Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation. This is a $10 million increase over last year (FY10 level was $317 million) and a $44 million increase over the last four years (FY07 level was $283 million). (page 979)’”