Abortion debate

PHOENIX -- Gov. Jan Brewer makes no bones about her animosity toward Planned Parenthood. "I do not support the goals of Planned Parenthood because I believe in life,' she said. "They believe in choice,' the governor continued. "So let's just cut right ...  

If Americans were really turning against abortion rights, then they should be turning against Roe v Wade. That's just isn't happening. Nate Silver investigated the issue back in 2009 and actually found a small trend toward growing support for the Roe v ...  

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - House Republican Bob Dold is attempting to legislatively enshrine Planned Parenthood’s federal funding with an amendment introduced this month that would prohibit the government from denying Title X funds to an organization on the basis that it provides abortions. The Illinois congressman was flanked by representatives from Planned Parenthood and the Republican Majority for Choice at a...  

Americans United for Life campaign to undo on a state-by-state basis the legal rights to abortion enshrined in Roe v. WadeLimits on the legal right to abortion are sweeping through legislatures across the United States, from moves to require women seeking abortion to undergo intrusive ultrasounds, to the defunding of Planned Parenthood, America's largest family planning provider.Behind the raft of bills and regulations is one group with an...  

New figures from the British government show hundreds of teenagers in the U.K. are having multiple taxpayer-funded abortions with three who had several government-funded abortions before their 20th birthday. The Daily Telegraph newspaper ...  

Planned Parenthood believes it's being targeted a second time by North Carolina legislators with another budget provision withholding money from the group to provide non-abortion services. A House budget subcommittee approved a spending plan Thursday ...  

Congress is currently considering two pro-life bills -- one addressing taxpayer-funded abortions for illegal immigrants, the other dealing with late-term abortions in Washington, DC. An amendment has been attached to a bill in Congress that would eliminate ...  

by Steve Fountain, CitizenLink Affiliated Medical Services announced today that it has suspended chemical abortions at its Wisconsin location due to a new state law requiring a doctor to be physically present when a client is given an abortion-inducing drug like RU-486. Planned Parenthood outlets made a similar announcement on April 24. Act 217 became law last month. It stops the use of "web cam abortions," where an abortionist in one...  

Republican Daryl Metcalfe of Butler County, the sponsor of the legislation, says funding for women’s health services would not be reduced, but reallocated. “Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize abortionists and their facilities.”  

Pennsylvania State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler ... would put health care providers that offer abortion services at the bottom of the priority list for state funding. The anti-abortion activist group Susan B. Anthony List and the Alliance ...  

One of the top reasons pro-life advocates give for wanting to defeat President Barack Obama in the November elections is the impact the abortion advocate could have on the Supreme Court. But what would a second Obama term and more Supreme Court ...  

Legislation in Pennsylvania would bar the use of state and federal funding by Planned Parenthood. Also in the news, some Georgia physicians fear their opposition to a state abortion bill has triggered retaliation against them. Meanwhile ...  

HARRISBURG — Even as some Republicans try to steer policy initiatives toward bread-and-butter economic issues in advance of the November elections, a small band of GOP lawmakers in Harrisburg tacked rightward Wednesday, introducing a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Pennsylvania. The legislation, similar to antiabortion bills crafted in other states, would bar all federal and state funding to the nonprofit, which provides abortions along...  

PP Greater Memphis Region is hosting a Teen Clinic today in honor of National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month ... sex will turn to PP for everything from birth control to STD testing to abortion. And that is money in PP’s pocket.  

Austin ChronicleNew Gallup poll finds Americans less like to identify as 'pro-choice'Houston ChronicleLozier says she is a woman who didn't have the right to choose when she survived a late term abortion. Lozier says a nurse saw her arms moving after she was extracted and was given medical help immediately. Rochelle Tafolla of Planned Parenthood says ...ABC27 WHTM Abortion debate raging at Capitol, Planned Parenthood targetedabc27GOP's...  

The newspaper indicates Beed has one of the worst male-female gender ratios in India — 801 girls being born per 1,000 boys, according ot the 2011 census — and the numbers are attributed to female infanticide and sex-selection abortions.  

Conservative state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Mordor) today again introduced legislation to defund Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania and other organizations that provide abortions. Flanked by fellow Republican lawmakers and representatives from pro-life organizations, Metcalfe touted what he calls the "Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act" which would "prohibit Planned Parenthood and all other abortion-on-demand providers from...  

Planned Parenthood is losing battles across the nation, and lives are being saved. PHILADELPHIA, PA (Catholic Online) - The bill has been presented by state representative, Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and will put all abortion providers at the bottom of the ...  

HARRISBURG -- A new bill in the state House would steer state tax dollars away from Planned Parenthood, hospitals and other health care providers that perform elective abortion procedures. Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, said in a Wednesday news ...  

With his re-election campaign in high gear, President Obama is focusing on his outreach to women. And, make no mistake about it, the president’s pro-abortion track record regarding the funding of programs in this country and abroad has not ...  

HARRISBURG -- State money would be steered away from Planned Parenthood and other healthcare providers that perform abortions in Pennsylvania under a state House proposal unveiled today. Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, said the bill would end the "flow ...  

The YWCA has long been on the bad list for pro-life advocates because of its promotion of abortion and relationships with Planned Parenthood, and new evidence from its own blog shows that hasn’t changed. Writing at Live Action, Kristi Burton ...  

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to “eliminate and limit” the African-American population. “Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, who ...  

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to “eliminate and limit” the African-American population. “Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret ...  

First it was the cynically-named "Women's Right to Know Act," a so-far failed bill that would force women undergoing an abortion to watch an ultra-sound of her unborn baby before undergoing the procedure. Remember how well that went over? After Gov.  

For more on the "Roe Effect" see here, but bottom line, it predicts that the electorate will slowly turn more pro-life as the pro-abortion people eliminate future pro-abortion voters before their born. Here's Gallup's latest: The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as "pro-choice" is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call...  

AUGUSTA, MAINE, May 18, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The state of Maine has defunded family planning services, depriving an organization affiliated with Planned Parenthood of $400,000. Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, signed a budget Wednesday morning designed to erase the state’s $83 million shortfall. One of the structural changes deprived Family Planning Association of Maine of $400,000 in taxpayer revenues. Maine Right to Life Committee...  

Pro-lifers in Maine are pleased that their state is done giving money to Planned Parenthood. With Gov. Paul LePage (R) signing into law a 2013 budget that does not include the abortion provider, Teresa McAnn-Tumidajski of the Maine Right to Life Committee ...  

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Michelle Obama, the attorney wife of pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is coming under fire for a letter she wrote defending partial-birth abortions. The 2004 letter, written to help Obama in his campaign for his U.S. Senate seat, opposes the ban on the abortion procedure. In February 2004, Michelle Obama penned a fundraising letter to help her husband Barack raise funds for his...  

Congress is currently weighing a law that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks in the District of Columbia. Willie Parker, a Washington-based obstetrician, is one doctor who has performed late-term abortions here and stands to be directly affected, should that law pass. An obstetrician for two decades, he only began performing abortions eight years ago, largely out of what he says was concern for women’s needs going unmet. Parker is...  

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to "eliminate and limit" the African-American population.  

"Pro choice" is a label for people who favor the right of women to choose whether to bring a pregnancy to term. "Pro life" is a label for those who back legal protection for human fetuses, including outlawing abortion. The pro choice figure in the May poll ...  

If Texas has to allow Planned Parenthood to provide women with health services under the Women's Health Program, how can it also get across a pro-life message? That's the question that a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the 5th U.S. Circuit ...  

Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, has released a compendium of Chen Guangcheng’s field notes about forced abortion and sterilization in China and the stories the blind attorney compiled are shocking, even for those ...  

As another state has banned Planned Parenthood funding, Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL) introduced a bill to protect federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Dold, one of the few pro-choice Republicans in Congress, said today that he was pushing for the bill because of the importance of Title X family planning funds for women’s health: We have [...]  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill restricting state funding for Planned Parenthood. The move is the latest in state and federal battles over government funding for Planned Parenthood. The group provides abortion but also other health care services.  

[JURIST] Georgia Governor Nathan Deal [official website] on Tuesday signed two pieces of legislation [press release] barring late-term abortions [JURIST backgrounder] and assisted suicide [JURIST news archive], respectively. HB 954 [materials] bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on studies suggesting a fetus can begin to feel pain at that point in development. It creates exceptions for when the mother's life is in danger or...  

The Associated Press reports that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill that cuts off funding for non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood, eliminating funding for the organization. The law comes from Arizona's Republican-led Legislature, which says the measure ensures no public funds would benefit abortion services.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Congress is weighing a law for the District that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks gestation. Willie Parker, a Washington-based obstetrician, is a doctor who has performed late-term abortions. He stands to be directly affected should that law pass.  

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has just struck down a proposed personhood ballot question — which would have granted embryos the rights of people and outlawed all abortions — calling the measure “clearly unconstitutional”: 4. The United States Supreme Court has spoken on this issue. The measure is clearly unconstitutional pursuant to Planned Parenthood v. Casey, [...]  

Michael Steele told Laura Ingraham’s Monday radio show, when asked about the NAACP, that the prominent pro-abortion organization is no friend of the black community. Steele also said the relationship between the NAACP and Planned Parenthood ...  

I am wondering why the “researcher” who wrote the editorial “Planned Parenthood behind decline in teen births” failed to mention the part that abortion played in the decline of teen births. Is it is because abortion-as-birth-control is an...  

New Hampshire House lawmakers try and fail to revive a bill to ban late-term abortions. The house first passed a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in March. But that bill was quickly pushed aside by the senate. House lawmakers revived the proposal Thursday, tacking it on to bill related to health screening tests for newborns. Yet the narrowness  of the margin – it was adopted by just 4 votes -- prompted a quick change of heart...  

... funding also already forced the abortion business to close several centers throughout the state. In December, the Obama Administration refused to renew funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program (WHP) because of new state rules that ...  

DC’s Eleanor Holmes Norton, former speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the abortion cabal (NARAL, NAF, and Planned Parenthood) are claiming, predictably, that they are being bullied into silence by House Judiciary Committee Republicans. Democrats had ...  

How well informed are abortion seekers? We may not be able to know their minds or experiences, but we can certainly know whether those doing the informing are being honest, fair, and candid with them (spoiler alert: they’re not). Live Action has caught personnel at least three Planned Parenthood clinics giving their patients inaccurate medical information about their babies and pregnancies. The people at Planned Parenthood misled women on when...  

State lawmakers attending a packed hearing today hear from several pro-life women and saw dozens of pro-life advocates who want to see the state withdraw taxpayer funding from the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The Ohio House of ...  

It was payback time for state Rep. Jim Crawford, a conservative Democrat from Oxford who crossed Planned Parenthood with his flip vote for the controversial abortion bill last year. Crawford, a 28-year incumbent, was knocked out by fellow Democrat Rep. W.A. “Winkie” Wilkins in a redrawn district that favored Wilkins. Crawford lost by a 56-37 percent margin.Crawford ran afoul of fellow party members when he joined the ranks of four other...  

Gov. Jan Brewer makes no bones about her animosity toward Planned Parenthood. “I do not support the goals of Planned Parenthood because I believe in life,” she said. “They believe in choice,” the governor continued. “So let’s just cut right ...  

From Lake County Right to Life - On Wednesday last week, U.S. Congressman Robert Dold introduced HR 5650, the Protecting Women's Access to Healthcare Act. In his introduction of this egregious bill, Congressman Dold said, "As a pro-choice Republican, I...  

Even though 53 out of 66 studies done since 1957 show an increased risk of breast cancer after induced abortion, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards sent out an impassioned plea for money to fight new Kansas legislation that she deceptively ...  

Norwegian Directorate of Health concluded that the practices associated with abortion after 22 week has been in violation of the law. The directorate provided a legal assessment of the ban on abortion when the fetus can survive. Abortion Act states that after the end of the eighteenth week of pregnancy, a pregnancy is not canceled unless there are particularly weighty reasons for it. Is there reason to believe that the fetus is viable, you...  

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, signed a bill last Friday that will cut off state funding to any Planned Parenthood offices, or any other organizations, which perform "nonfederally qualified" abortions. "Nonfederally qualified" abortions means,if I'm correct, all abortions that aren't intended to save the life... Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading the BabyCenter...  

As abortion protests go, the one on display at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Casper isn’t visually shocking. There are no graphic photos of aborted fetuses, like the Milwaukee-based group Missionaries to the Preborn waved in front of motorists on ...  

Universal Life Church World Headquarters, Inc. USA. Learn more about Jesus Christ today!Carrabelle, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/30/2012 -- Since 1973 Roe vs Wade, 50 million babies have been aborted, murdered. Today the Universal Life Church World Headquarters and Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) announces they join together to end abortion. Together they invite you to watch this video and join with them to put an end to this huge mistake. It is time to...  

In a May 9 CNSNews.com article about federal Title X family planning money going to Planned Parenthood, Elizabeth Harrington writes:Although the law prevents Title X family planning funds from being used for abortions, money is fungible and, as the latest data show, Planned Parenthood received a reported $79 million in Title X funding in 2010, and a total of approximately $342 million between 2002 and 2008.Harrington offers no evidence that...  

Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a Republican-backed measure on Friday called the Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act, which prevents Planned Parenthood or any entity offering abortions from receiving state funding. "This is a common-sense law that tightens existing state regulations and closes loopholes in order to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortions, whether directly or indirectly," Brewer said in a statement...  

The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act cuts off Arizona state funding for family planning and health services delivered by Planned Parenthood clinics and other organizations offering abortions. "By signing this measure into law I stand with the majority of Americans who oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortion," said Gov. Jan Brewer (R).  

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement. The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act cuts off funding for family planning and health services delivered by Planned Parenthood clinics and other organizations offering abortions. "By signing this measure into law I stand with the...  

Planned Parenthood's changed views on abortion Re: “Sanger’s mission” (Donna Pelonis, Letters, May 6). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did in fact receive the Margaret Sanger Award in 1966. It is also a fact that in 1966, Planned Parenthood was...  

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Texas can cut funding to Planned Parenthood because it performs abortions, Reuters reports. The emergency stay was granted by 5th U.S. Circuit Court Judge Jerry Smith. It reversed a lower court injunction in favor of the organization. Planned Parenthood sued Texas last year over...... Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.  

Planned Parenthood is up to another round of embarrassing, taxpayer-funded high jinks - Washington state college students are getting high-tech condoms in a social media experiment by Planned Parenthood. In a bizarre promotion of “safe sex” bragging social media posts,...  

While the national fight over Planned Parenthood has died down for now, Republican governors and legislators in numerous states have fought to defund the group. The use of federal funds for abortion services is already barred under the Hyde Amendment, but many states have cut off or attempted to cut funding for Planned Parenthood altogether. Read full article >>  

Arizona leads with another ground-breaking move after their immigration bill. A bill that prevents "abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving public funds" has passed into law, says CNN. (Planned Parenthood lists 14 health centers in Arizona.) Meanwhile, a federal appeals court ruled that "Texas cannot ban Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds" for now, says the AP, so this latest move by Arizona may not go unchallenged...  

Agency focuses on abortions Your editorial “Planned Parenthood does a lot of good to prevent abortion” reveals a level of ignorance of well-known facts that is simply shocking. By far, Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the highest volume abortion provider in the United States.  

CONCORD – A state Senate panel has endorsed Republican plans forcing Planned Parenthood of Northern New England out of the “direct or indirect” abortion business and outlawing so-called partial birth abortions. But the anti-abortion plans of House Republican leaders took some hits Thursday with committee recommendations to kill both a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions and a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. The only bill that...  

CONCORD – The state Senate, in a crushing blow to New Hampshire’s anti-abortion movement, rejected bills that would put the local Planned Parenthood effectively out of business, banned abortions after 20 weeks and required women to wait 24 hours before having the procedure. The only substantial anti-abortion measure clearing the Senate on Wednesday would outlaw late-term or so-called partial-birth abortions, which have already been banned by...  

Newly empowered Republicans in states across the country are pushing to kill public contracts with Planned Parenthood, only to find their efforts blocked by the Obama administration and federal courts. In New Hampshire, the administration circumvented officials by awarding a $1 million grant directly to the nation’s largest provider of abortion services after state officials blocked a grant to the organization. Every federal district court...  

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood clinics from offering women's health services for the poor in the state because the organization provides abortions.  

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked a new Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood clinics from offering women's health services for the poor in the state because the organization provides abortions. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in favor of Planned Parenthood means thousands of women enrolled in the Texas Women's Health Program who go to its clinics will not be required to switch providers...  

When it comes to feminist goals, working to end sex-selection abortions should be common ground for all sides. It is a real war on women, costing the lives of girls simply because they are girls. While mainstream American values reject gender-based killings as patently offensive, in this war on women ...  

Remember the flap over the Susan G. Komen Foundation's choice to pull funding from Planned Parenthood earlier this year? In January, Komen announced it would no longer give grants to organizations under federal investigation; at the time, House Republicans were investigating Planned Parenthood for providing legal abortions, which meant no grants for Planned Parenthood. That [...]  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law Friday that eliminates Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer money that is funneled through the state for non-abortion services, saying that any funds sent to the organization could indirectly be used to pay for abortions. In Texas this week, a federal appeals court prevented the state from enforcing a rule that would deprive groups associated with Planned Parenthood of access to money in a state-funded...  

April 23, 2012/Madison, WI/Operation Rescue -- Planned Parenthood announced last week that it would stop dispensing abortion pills at all of its Wisconsin locations after Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law banning the dangerous drugs without the presence of a license physician. This law virtually bans the practice of telemed, or webcam abortions. Medication abortions account for about 25% of all abortions in Wisconsin. "This new...  

Just ask a federal judge in Texas: Planned Parenthood's Right to Your Tax DollarsBy Richard Viguerie In yet another example of how liberals use unelected judges as the enforcers of their unconstitutional agenda, a federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked a new Texas law that, because the organization provides abortions, would have banned state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in favor...  

New Hampshire's Senate is voting on several bills that would limit abortions. Senators will vote on Wednesday whether to ban partial-birth abortions and abortions after 20 weeks. They will also vote whether to block public funding to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and require a 24-hour wait for pregnant women to get an abortion.  

Just hours after a U.S. District judge granted Planned Parenthood organizations in Texas an injunction against a state rule that would ban abortion facility affiliates from receiving funding through a state-funded health program, the Texas Attorney General filed an appeal.  Planned Parenthood has 64 offices across Texas and 14 of those provide abortion services.  Of the remaining 50, 49 currently receive funding through the state's Women...  

Texas stands to lose its federal funding for the WHP by enforcing its defunding law. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has said the state’s rule prohibits patients from choosing the health professional of their choice, thus ...  

Planned Parenthood is the undisputed leading abortion provider in the United States, performing over one-third of ... of abortions are performed on women 18-24 years old. So are college students also prime targets for abortion clinics?  

PHOENIX -- Gov. Jan Brewer makes no bones about her animosity toward Planned Parenthood. "I do not support the goals of Planned Parenthood because I believe in life," she said. "They believe in choice," the governor continued. "So let's just cut right ...  

As events unfold in the gripping saga of Chen Guangcheng’s desperate bid to flee Chinese oppressors, trolls for the Chinese government have posted comments on websites that, unwittingly, remind us why he is persecuted: Chen dared to expose the ...  

Planned Parenthood Statement on House Homeland Security Committee VoteeNews Park ForestPlanned Parenthood strongly condemns the adoption of an abortion amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill by the House Homeland Security Committee today. Not only is this amendment unnecessary and redundant to existing policy, ...and more »  

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Members of Dubuque County Right To Life organization are revealing a new effort to push Planned Parenthood out of the community. The organization has been protesting Planned Parenthood since the clinic opened in 2008. On Wednesday ...  

A federal appeals court granted an emergency request – putting a lower court decision on hold – and cleared the way for Texas to enforce a state law banning taxpayer funds from going to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.  

#roevworld The Daily Telegraph breathlessly reports that the National Health Service is spending £1 million a week on carrying out "repeat abortions"; that is, on women who have had abortions in the past. Some particularly crafty ladies have gotten away with up to nine free abortions! More »  

Despite the protests of Right to Life members, Hastings Mayor Vern Powers says Planned Parenthood ... dressing" Others claimed it established healthy values. "It's a start. I don't know if I'm 100 percent pleased with it, I'd like to see smoking completely ...  

Planned Parenthood clinics have no right to public funding, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said earlier this week, adding that the clinics “promote” abortion and violate state policy. Bloomberg News reported yesterday that Abbott filed with the U.S ...  

Maine Governor Paul LePage has delighted pro-life advocates today by initially pushing for and now signing a state budget into law that de-funds Planned Parenthood. The abortion business stands to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result.  

Planned Parenthood is wishing women a happy Mother's Day by asking people for donations to prevent women from becoming mothers, or in other words, is asking for abortion funding. This Mother's Day, Planned Parenthood is pushing the idea that ...  

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer makes no bones about her animosity toward Planned Parenthood. “I do not support the goals of Planned Parenthood because I believe in life. They believe in choice. So let's just cut right through the fat and tell it like it is.  

CAPITOL HILL, DC (WUSA)--No vote and now no voice. DC's furious Congressional delegate was blocked from speaking on a bill that would ban late-term abortions in the city. Democrats called it a disgrace. Republicans insisted it was well within Congressional ...  

“Planned Parenthood’s ulterior motives must be made known,” King said. “Their aggressive promotion of the gruesome practice of abortion by video conference is expanding the destructive ‘abortion on demand’ culture in America—all in the name ...  

The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is redefining its mission and methods. While vowing to never lose sight of abortion rights, the group is shaping a more holistic health-justice agenda and turning to movement-building at the grassroots.  

I didn't write that either. I quoted from the West Virginians for Life PAC. As a member of the "religious right," I submit that articles of remonstrance need to be directed against the opening comment. For you lefties in la-la land, a nice way of saying ...  

Planned Parenthood clinics that “promote” abortion violate Texas policy and have no right to public funding, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a filing yesterday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Texas is appealing a ...  

A new bill introduced in Congress by a pro-life advocate from Iowa cuts off public funding to abortion clinics, like Planned Parenthood, that engage in the practice of telemed abortions. Congressman Steve King, an Iowa Republican, introduced the ...  

Representative Dold claims his bill—which would ... and does not promote women’s health care. In 1988, after having experienced the abortion industry’s interaction with Title X funding, the Secretary of HHS issued new regulations to ...  

PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer continued her anti-abortion efforts late Friday, signing controversial legislation to keep any of the federal family-planning funding Arizona gets from going to Planned Parenthood. A legal challenge is likely. HB 2800 establishes ...  

Planned Parenthood is out today with a statement praising President Barack Obama’s change of position on the issue of gay marriage. Within the statement, the nation’s biggest abortion business makes a curious connection, claiming abortion ...  

ST. PAUL, May 15, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After 15 years of taxpayer-funded abortions, Minnesotans have funded more than 58,000 abortions at a cost of over $18 million, according to a just-released report from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). Nearly all of these abortions have been elective. Since its successful 1995 challenge to Minnesota’s law [...]  

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is "scared" to reopen the abortion debate, an organization planning a rally on Parliament Hill says. "The prime minister is scared. He's being very cowardly in not reopening the abortion debate," Campaign Life Coalition youth ...  

msnbc.comArizona bans funding of Planned ParenthoodCNNBy the CNN Wire Staff Gov. Jan Brewer said she stands "with the majority of Americans" who she says oppose taxpayer-funded abortions. Gov. Jan Brewer signs the bill into law She says the "common sense law ... closes loopholes" (CNN) -- Arizona Gov.Jan Brewer's Abortion Grenade: Defunding Planned ParenthoodDaily BeastNew Arizona law bars public funds from Planned ParenthoodSacramento...  

(Jonathan H. Adler) Earlier this year, the state of Texas adopted a rule barring organizations that promote abortions or affiliate with groups that promote abortions from participating in the state’s Medicaid-funded Woman’s Health Program. This rule effectively barred Planned Parenthood clinics from the program. In response, cut off funding for the state’s program, and Texas sued. At the [...]  

The Supreme Court ruled on January 22, 1973, in favour of a woman's right to have an abortion, but since that time, even the woman who stood at the center of the effort to have abortion legalized, Norma McCorvey aka "Jane Roe", has even since tried to have reversed.  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill that will cut off public funding for organizations that perform "nonfederally qualified abortions," striking a blow to Planned Parenthood in the state. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill that will cut off public funding for organizations that perform "nonfederally qualified abortions," striking a blow to Planned Parenthood in the state.  

Bob Dold (R-Ill.) on Wednesday introduced H.R. 5650 ... funded abortions," and the House voted to block Title X money to Planned Parenthood last year. Even though the Hyde Amendment prevents the government from using taxpayer dollars to pay ...  

Texas law already required groups receiving federal or state funding be legally and financially separate from clinics that perform abortions. Eight Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide abortions sued over the new law. The clinics say ...  

The letter was tied to Texas' decision to remove clinics from the program if they are affiliated with abortion providers, although the clinics themselves do not provide abortions. It was sent to 114,656 women before the latest court action requiring Texas ...  

Arizona’s combative governor has signed a bill to rob Planned Parenthood of public funding, cutting thousands of poor women from family-planning services. Terry Greene Sterling on the fallout. Arizona’s governor threw yet another political ...  

Gov. Jan Brewer continued her anti-abortion efforts late Friday, signing controversial -- and potentially illegal -- legislation to deny any of the federal family planning funding Arizona gets from going to Planned Parenthood. HB 2800 spells out an order ...  

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that the law was unconstitutional because it bars eight Planned Parenthood clinics that don't provide abortions from participating in the program based on their affiliation with legally and financially ...  

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals judge stepped into the fight over the Texas Women's Health Program on Tuesday, saying he wanted to hear arguments on whether the state should be prevented from enforcing a law that bans Planned Parenthood from pa...  

With more than 15,000 people expected in the nation’s capital city today for the Canadian March for Life, Canada’s major pro-life group has a message for Prime Minister Stephen Harper:  we want a debate on abortion. As Campaign Life ...  

#plannedparenthood Cryptozoologists around the world are buzzing with excitement over the discovery of a thought-to-be extinct creature in the Midwestern state of Illinois: a Republican who supports funding Planned Parenthood. In fact, freshman Republican Congressman Bob Dold of Illinois supports Planned Parenthood and reproductive rights so much that he's introduced a bill designed to protect...  

U.S. Rep. Robert Dold (R-10) went against party lines Wednesday and introduced a bill that would prohibit lawmakers from barring Planned Parenthood -- and other clinics that perform abortions -- from receiving federal Title X dollars that go ...  

A pro-life student group is alleging that Planned Parenthood for America targets college students for their abortion services. Students for Life is basing the claim on a study the group conducted over the winter. It found that of the estimated ...  

WELLINGTON — Planned Parenthood's newest clinic in Palm Beach County celebrated its grand opening on Thursday in the Wellington Professional Center, the first and only of its offices in the county to offer surgical abortions. The Wellington ...  

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law two pieces of legislation on Tuesday to restrict late-term abortions and outlaw assisted suicide in the state. The first law banned most abortions after 20 weeks' pregnancy, making Georgia the eighth U.S. state to outlaw most late-term abortions based on controversial research that a fetus can feel pain by that stage of development. Georgia already prohibits most abortions...  

ABC NewsCircuit Lifts Funding Ban for Planned ParenthoodsCourthouse News ServiceThe affiliates say the rule bars them from participating in the program because they advocate for access to abortions and associate with entities that provide the services, such as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.Arizona Bans Funding for Planned Parenthood, Organizations That Perform AbortionsABC NewsAZ defunding of P. Parenthood continues trendBP...  

Rep. Bob Dold (R-Ill.) is something of a unicorn in the Republican party. He’s a pro-choice Republican who is now introducing legislation to protect Planned Parenthood from being cut out of federal funding. There’s been a growing movement in the ...  

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, has continued a trend of vetoing pro-life legislation. Gov. Dayton this week vetoed HF 2341, a bill that would have banned webcam abortions in Minnesota -- a procedure in which an abortionist has an online meeting ...  

A startling moment emerges at the end of an appeal filed this week in which Attorney General Greg Abbott fights doggedly on behalf of Texas to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from participating in a Medicaid waiver program for low-income women.  

“The House refused to fund the section of the HHS budget dealing with family planning and taxpayer funded abortion above the amount in the two-year budget appropriated last year,” they continued. “This allowed them to come to an agreement ...  

"As a pro-choice Republican, I believe that this legislation is critical ... saying she would do whatever it takes to ensure taxpayer money didn't accidentally go into funding abortions. Similar laws are in place in Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, North Carolina ...  

A federal judge on Monday stopped Texas from preventing Planned Parenthood from getting State funds through the Women’s Health Program. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a law forbidding state agencies from providing funds to any organization affiliated with abortion providers even though eight Planned Parenthood clinics do not provide abortions — so they sued the State.  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Friday a bill blocking all state funds from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers (because, you know, that’s working out so well for Texas …). The Republican-backed bill, delightfully named the “Whole ...  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed off on a bill that will prevent abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving public funds in most cases, her office said. "This is a common sense law that tightens existing state regulations and closes ...  

Supporters of the Arizona bill said the law was needed to keep money from indirectly funding abortions. In the Texas case, the panel of federal appeals judges said Texas must continue funding Planned Parenthood until a lower court decides the case.  

This is the real "war on women": Abortion: performed only on women; killed: more than 53 million babies since "Roe v. Wade," roughly half of whom are girls; results: physical, psychological and emotional damage done to women. Contraceptives and ...  

Jim Crawford, a conservative Democrat from Oxford who crossed Planned Parenthood with his flip vote for the controversial abortion bill last year ... They are separately incorporated 501 c(4) organizations. Another House member infamously ...  

USA TODAYArizona governor signs Planned Parenthood funding banUSA TODAYPHOENIX (AP) – Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. By Charles Dharapak, AP Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to the press April 25 ...Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in abortion fightChicago TribuneArizona abortion-services bill signed into...  

Rick Perry, Honorary Facebook OB/GYN, has tried with all his might to defund his state's Planned Parenthood clinics because, while they provide tens of thousands of women in his state with basic health care, they also sometimes provide abortions. He even, in a particularly baby-with-the-bathwater move, went as far as trying to ban the organization from participating in the state's Women's Health Program. But today, in a win for uteruses and...  

#arizona Despite the fact that Arizona has already banned public funding for abortion, Governor Jan Brewer signed an even more restrictive bill that bars funding to any organization that provides abortions — namely Planned Parenthood. More »  

Planned Parenthood has opened a new abortion business in southern Florida’s Palm Beach County ... our neighborhoods, our churches, our schools, our families, our children, and our unborn babies — the future of this country,” he said.  

LOS ANGELES _ Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill barring any public money _ city, county or state _ from going to Planned Parenthood, a decision that she says closes loopholes for funding abortions. The bill, known as the Whole Woman's Health ...  

To hear some anti-abortion crusaders tell it, the second a pregnant woman mentions that she's considering an abortion she's whisked off to an operating table by a salivating cabal of Planned Parenthood harpies. The overarching anti-choice narrative is that most women seeking abortions don't actually understand the consequences of their choice—hence the need for things like mandatory waiting periods, forced ultrasounds and friendly lectures...  

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law two pieces of legislation on Tuesday to restrict late-term abortions and outlaw assisted suicide in the state. The first law banned most abortions after 20 weeks' pregnancy, making Georgia the eighth U.S. state to outlaw most late-term abortions based on controversial research that a fetus can feel pain by that stage of development. Georgia already prohibits most abortions...  

The Senate also voted without debate to establish a committee to determine a method to collect abortion statistics and sent the bill to Democratic Gov. John Lynch. Lynch spokesman James Richardson said the governor, who supports abortion rights ...  

Phoenix - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning providers of abortion services such as Planned Parenthood from receiving funding through the state. According to Reuters, the Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding ...  

In a move designed to appease anti-abortion advocates, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Friday a bill that cuts state taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood. Use of public funds for abortions is already restricted in most cases in the state ...  

USA TODAYCourt: TX Must Include Planned Parenthood in WHPTexas TribuneWe also will continue to work toward a state program that provides women with access to vital family planning services and complies with the law that bans abortion providers from getting those funds,” Goodman wrote in a prepared statement. Gov.Brewer signs legislation to block Planned Parenthood fundingEast Valley TribuneWomen's health: Anti-abortion ideology trumps facts...  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a controverisal bill late Friday that would cut Planned Parenthood off from all state funding. The bill blocks organizations that perform abortions from receiving taxpayer money for the non-abortion services they provide.  

Seems the Grand Ole Party's war on women marches on--this time it's through Arizona. The Republican controlled State Senate voted to ban funds to Planned Parenthood for non-abortion purposes. The law was signed by governor Jan Brewer on Friday. The...  

Arizona Bans Funding To Planned Parenthood In Abortion Fight Governor: 'I stand with majority of Americans who oppose taxpayer funds for abortion' By David Schwartz Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement. The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act cuts off funding for family...  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the life of the ...  

Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the life of the mother.  

"Family planning:" The wholly innocent term infuriates the pro-life community. To them, it connotes Big Government abortions, the movie Juno and everything that is "morally wrong" with women's reproductive health (apparently, there is a lot). Since the ...  

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the life of ...  

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood can offer services for now as part of a Texas program for low-income women despite a new state rule that bans money going to affiliates of abortion providers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday. The court order from a three-judge panel - which lifts an emergency stay put in place earlier this week - was the latest in a series of alternating legal victories for Planned Parenthood and the state of...  

[Content Note: Reproductive rights.]As of today, Utah has the longest waiting period for abortions in the nation, as law requiring a pregnant person to wait 72 hours goes into effect:"For some people that may be a point of celebration," said Planned Parenthood of Utah Director Karrie Galloway. "For others it may be a point of heartache."And for everyone, it is profoundly hostile to their agency, their capacity for self-determination and self...  

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement. Create a personal senior housing list ...  

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement. The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority ...  

PHOENIX -- Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the ...  

Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the life of the ...  

Male and female clients combined will make about 10,000 visits a year for family planning, health screenings, routine care, medical procedures and abortions. Women who come for abortions follow a routine that includes education, counseling on options and a ...  

The Susan B Anthony List is to be commended for their good work Our positive law has rejected the Natural Law Right to Life and its prohibition against these intentional homicides committed against our youngest neighbors through procured abortions.  

The Planned Parenthood abortion business believes it is facing another national expose’ at the hands of pro-life activist Lila Rose, this time over the potential that it is arranging sex-selection abortions. Rose is the head of Live Action who ...  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed off on a bill that will prevent abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving public funds in most cases, her office said. "This is a common sense law that tightens existing ...  

Many politicians have been known to use theatrics when signing anti-choice bills, by, say, inviting local anti-choice advocates, religious leaders, and the like into the office for the event, or even signing a bill at a church. So it probably ...  

SB 1338 is authored by Senator Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego), and both Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Speaker of the Assembly John Perez have co-author status. Prentice says SB 1338 would change the definition of abortion to void ...  

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill Tuesday banning most late-term abortions -- those after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The law was pushed after controversial research found a fetus can feel pain at that stage of the pregnancy. Reuters ...  

They also found as government funding of Planned Parenthood rises ... we are often the only source of affordable quality health care for women,” the abortion business said. “This so-called report is a politically driven attack by an ...  

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to ...  

Smith. This means state funds flowing to Planned Parenthood will stop. War is peace, freedom is slavery, and abortion is humanitarian... AUSTIN, TX (Catholic Online) - Judge Yeakel's earlier decision to continue funding was immediately appealed by the State.  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, on Friday night, signed a pro-life bill that would prevent taxpayer funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which does more than one-fourth of all abortions in the United States. The Whole Woman’s Health ...  

Monday, a federal judge ruled that a state law, aimed at pulling state funds for the women's clinic, is unconstitutional. Some pro-life groups disagree, and think Planned Parenthood doesn't have a right to the money. "We think Planned Parenthood ...  

PHOENIX –  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except ...  

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has put an end to tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood by signing a bill that she says closes loopholes for funding abortions. The bill, known as the “Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act,” tightens existing ...  

Law360, New York (April 30, 2012, 4:52 PM ET) -- A federal judge on Monday halted Texas’ attempt to cut off health care funds to affiliates of Planned Parenthood, saying the push by opponents of abortion rights likely runs afoul of free-speech protections.  

That it did not provide such services for women was a sticking point in the battle over the grants the Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity provided the abortion business. Now, an Arizona Komen affiliate is providing grants to the Planned ...  

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed into law a bill on Friday that would cut Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer founds for non-abortion services, according to the Associated Press. Arizona already does not provide tax dollars for ...  

Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill on Friday that will ban planned parenthood, and other clinics that offer abortions. This is just the latest in the GOP’s war against Planned Parenthood. In a statement she made after ...  

(CNN) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed off on a bill that will prevent abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving public funds in most cases, her office said. “This is a common sense law that tightens existing state ...  

Follow the The XX Factor blog. Follow stories by J ... s rules requiring all Women’s Health Program providers to certify that they “do not promote ‘elective abortions’ and that they do not ‘affiliate’ with entities that perform ...  

Law could ban 'webcam' abortionsSt. Cloud TimesThe state of Minnesota is one step closer to requiring doctors to be present in the same room as women who are taking medicine designed to cause abortions. A bill has that passed through the Senate and is in its second reading in the House is aimed at ...  

New York Daily NewsMississippi could become abortion-freeNew York Daily NewsAP The controversy surrounding abortions is nothing new in Mississippi. Here, a group of anti-abortion supporters in prayer outside Jackson Women's Health Organization, the state's only abortion clinic, in 2006. Should doctors working at abortion ...Bill dooms only Miss. abortion clinicPoliticoMississippi appears poised to close state's sole abortion clinicLos Angeles...  

Lopez: Doctor seeks change in abortion discussionThe Daily News JournalHe's talking about the a-word, abortion — the one many of us just don't want to have to talk about. Including in med school. “Dr. B,” as he's known, reads from a Washington Post article that ran a few years ago, in which a medical student recalled ...Taking Back MedicineNational Review Onlineall 3 news articles »  

American Medical NewsOklahoma judge rules pre-abortion sonogram law unconstitutionalAmerican Medical NewsThe state's attorney general plans to appeal the ruling on the law, which required women to hear descriptions of ultrasound images before undergoing abortions. By Alicia Gallegos, amednews staff. Posted April 9, 2012. A district judge has struck down a ...  

Pioneer says birth control battle had a costWall Street JournalThis month marks the 45th anniversary of abortion rights activist Bill Baird's arrest at Boston University for giving contraception to a student. Now 79, the Massachusetts man spent 36 days in jail in Boston after his April 1967 arrest.and more »  

Bronx state Sen. Ruben Diaz Tuesday invoked Hitler as a pro-choice advocate in a rant against a bill to strengthen the state’s abortion laws. Hittler “chose to send the Jews to Auschwitz,” Democrat Diaz declared in an email to supporters and reporters.  

6abc.comDoctor's remaining abortion records in safe place, state saysKansas City StarBy ERIC ADLER A Kansas doctor who tossed hundreds of women's abortion records into a recycling bin has now placed his remaining records in a secure location away from his home, a state health agency confirmed Thursday. The Kansas Board of Healing Arts ...APNewsBreak: Feds receive complaint about ex-Kansas abortion provider's ...Washington PostAPNewsBreak: Kan...  

Pro-choice activists mounted counter-protests in response to anti-abortion pickets last Saturday. The pickets in Cardiff and Edinburgh, organised by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, were far outnumbered by pro-choice demonstrators.  

Another batch of report cards is out in Richmond, this time from an abortion-rights group. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia rated General Assembly members on their performance last session, just days after the Virginia Chamber of Commerce issued legislative report cards of its own. Read full article >>  

The Catholic Church today appealed to the President to halt any amendments leading to relax existing Abortion Law of the country, cautioning that such measures would aggravate the social issue and deprive children of their right to life.  

At a time when the nation’s economy and government spending are dominating the political agenda, abortion is not a key issue in the contentious primary race between two veteran Democrats in North Jersey’s 9th Congressional District.  

Campaigners across 50 towns in the UK stage 'pro-life chains' on the anniversary of the abortion act of 1967. Pro-choice campaigners tell Channel 4 News the demonstrators are in the minority.  

NORCROSS, Ga., May 1, 2012 / Christian Newswire / -- GRTL President Dan Becker today praised Governor Nathan Deal for signing the state's new assisted suicide law.