While providing testimony before the House Oversight Committee Tuesday morning, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards boasted about her abortion business’ use of taxpayer funds to provide sex education to young people.
Tuesday at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, chairmen Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) questioned Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards over her organization spending over $40 million in federal dollars on travel, parties and excessive salaries. Chaffetz said, “Does Planned
As Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards prepares to defend her organization before a U.S. House committee this morning, a coalition of pro-life groups are promoting a campaign and a website to show that Planned Parenthood is not needed to provide for women’s health.
House Majority Leader Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pledged “you’re going to see a select committee” on Planned Parenthood, there won’t be a shutdown of the government in December, and that border security should come first on immigration, in a discussion
Sen. Ted Cruz is excoriating the Republican leadership in the House and Senate for failing to “lift a finger to defend life” by eliminating taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. Cruz’s speech on the Senate floor comes as the lawmakers voted, 77-19, to advance a bill to authorize government spending that includes funding for Planned Parenthood.
Last week, Democrats led a filibuster of a Senate stopgap measure that would have defunded Planned Parenthood. Eight Republicans did not support that measure, leaving it short of a simple majority, much less the 60 votes required to overcome the filibuster.
In Planned Parenthood’s first congressional appearance since the release of undercover videos, the group’s president is defending its provision of fetal tissue for researchers and castigating Republicans for not investigating the anti-abortion activists who furtively made the recordings.
Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated she should support restrictions on abortion, “in the very end of the third trimester, but they have to take into account the life and health of the mother,” which
Planned Parenthood paid some of its supporters who threw condoms at GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and at her supporters during an Iowa Hawkeye tailgate on Saturday.
While 40 Days for Life claims that, as of Monday, it has saved 41 babies from abortion, Planned Parenthood is urging its clients to tweet about how great abortion is. Pro-lifers are countering that campaign with their own tweets.
GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) spoke exclusively to Breitbart News during Friday’s Values Voter Summit, reacting to the breaking news that House Speaker John Boehner resigned, slammed fellow GOP presidential candidates on immigration, and talked about Pope Francis.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to acknowledge the controversial series of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors negotiating prices for fetal tissue are real. Pelosi said, “I don’t stipulate that these videos
For some reason, CNN’s Don Lemon asked Whoopi Goldberg to weigh in on Pope Francis’ visit to the United States and the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” outgoing Speaker Rep John Boehner (R-OH) said there will not be a government shutdown over the fight about federal funding for Planned Parenthood in light of the series of videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” during an interview with host Chuck Todd, Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina stood by her opposition to Planned Parenthood. Fiorina said, “This is not about being pro-life or pro-choice. It’s
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is lashing out at the Pope, after he’s repeatedly spoken up for the right to life of the unborn in his visit to the United States, accusing him of limiting women’s rights and hampering “women’s health.”
Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) stated “we will redouble our efforts” to defund Planned Parenthood and “we are activating the reconciliation process” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hello, I’m Marsha Blackburn. I’m speaking to you today as the representative
When news of GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation filtered into the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal used the occasion to call for GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to follow the Speaker into retirement.
A Democrat Congressman with a long pro-abortion voting record swiped a bizarre papal souvenir when the Pontiff left the podium after his address to Congress this week. The Democrat stole the Pope’s water glass in order to sprinkle the “holy” water on his grandchildren.
Many conservatives viewed the prospect of the Pope’s visit to the United States with a mixture of hope and trepidation: hope, because the Pope’s visit would force heavy media coverage of religious issues; trepidation, because of Pope Francis’ mixed record on issues ranging from climate change to illegal immigration.
The controversial biopic about the life of notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell has cast its villain and begun filming.
Republican presidential candidate, former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR), spoke Friday in Washington, DC at the Family Research Council’s 10th annual Values Voter Summit. Huckabee said, “When I hear people act as if, ‘if we could just defund Planned Parenthood, man
Tea Party Caucus Chairman Representative Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) said the resignation of House Speaker Representative John Boehner (R-OH) was a loss of the party establishment and “good for the Republican Party” on Friday’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on the Fox
Today, speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped into the leadership of outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner. “Yesterday, John Boehner was Speaker of the House,” Cruz said. “Ya’ll come to town
Friday in Washington, DC at the Family Research Council’s 10th annual Values Voter Summit, Republican presidential candidate former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) said the United States will never “be blessed by God if we’re a country that kills our children
