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Planned Parenthood and ACLU fight Alabama abortion restrictions
By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a new Alabama law that tightens restrictions on abortion clinics in the state. The law, signed by Gov. Robert Bentley in April and set to take effect next…
Ohio legislature votes to strip funding for Planned Parenthood and hospitals that service abortion clinics
By Jo Ingles COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – The Ohio Senate on Thursday passed a $61.7 billion two-year budget which includes controversial amendments that would limit federal funds for Planned Parenthood and ban public hospitals from having patient transfer agreements with abortion clinics. The state’s budget bill, which passed by a…
Delaware abortion doctor blames Planned Parenthood for clinic’s ‘headaches’
An abortion doctor being pursued by Republican lawmakers in Delaware told a local reporter that Planned Parenthood itself was to blame for what he called “headaches” at a clinic in Wilmington. In a series of lengthy interviews, Dr. Timothy Liveright told The News Journal that management positions at the Wilmington…
Supreme Court denies Indiana bid to cutoff Planned Parenthood funding
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked an Indiana law aimed at stopping Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds to provide cancer screenings and other services for the poor. The Supreme Court justices gave no indication why they had rejected Indiana’s appeal to…
Fox News guest: Teen pregnancies should be ‘celebrated’
A regular Fox News commentator on Sunday said that teen pregnancies should be “celebrated,” and pointed to President Barack Obama’s speech to Planned Parenthood and the alleged horrific crimes of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell as part of “what’s wrong with our culture.” Fortune magazine’s Nina Easton told Fox News host…
Obama: ‘Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere’
In his remarks to the 2013 National Planned Parenthood Conference in Washington on Friday, President Barack Obama vowed to fight to ensure the rights organization’s survival and to turn back efforts by conservatives to restrict women’s access to contraceptives, gynecological exams, abortions an other services. He also enjoined the crowd…
Pat Robertson links Planned Parenthood to Hitler and black ‘genocide’
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday misquoted the founder of Planned Parenthood to make a false connection between the abortion provider, Adolf Hitler and African-American “genocide.” After noting that President Barack Obama would be speaking to Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Friday, Robertson urged his viewers to Google the group’s…
Limbaugh claims Planned Parenthood ‘knew all along’ about horrific abortion doctor Gosnell
Conservative opinion outlets buzzed Tuesday over an quote from last week’s Philadelphia Inquirer, in which Dayle Steinberg, president of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, said that horrors perpetrated by accused murderer Kermit Gosnell show why access to safe and regulated reproductive health services are so needed. That’s not what Breitbart.com or…
Indiana man arrested for taking axe to Planned Parenthood facility
A man who believes Planned Parenthood “kills babies” took an axe to a facility early Thursday morning in Bloomington, Indiana, according to the Herald Times. Police arrested 27-year-old Benjamin D. Curell on felony charges of burglary and criminal mischief due to the “extensive damage” done to the Planned Parenthood facility.…
Rick Santorum’s plan to revitalize the GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood
In a fundraising email sent Sunday, former Pennsylvanian Sen. Rick Santorum warned that social conservatives were being pushed out of the Republican Party. The former GOP presidential candidate said he had a three point plan to prevent the Republican Party from abandoning social conservatives and destroying itself. His plan consisted…
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