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.
As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defends Planned Parenthood from the fallout over its baby part-selling scandal, the mainstream media conveniently ignores one very important detail: the Planned Parenthood president’s daughter is a top Hillary campaign operative.
In a court filing that appears to support Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit days before the Jindal administration and Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) head to federal court over the decision, the DOJ said Jindal’s administration has not adequately shown why the abortion provider’s contract should be terminated, and that the decision violates laws that allow Medicaid patients to choose their own medical doctors, reports nola.com. PPGC is asking the court for a temporary restraining order against the Jindal administration’s decision to cut its federal funding.
A firm with a history of ties to Democrats and harassing individuals who donate to Republican social conservatives prepared the report Planned Parenthood is using to defend itself to members of Congress following its ongoing video scandal.
Planned Parenthood celebrated Tuesday night as the nation’s largest abortion provider recognized 16 journalists by bestowing upon them the coveted “Maggie Awards for Media Excellence,” named after the organization’s founder and eugenicist Margaret Sanger.
The Obama administration is threatening states attempting to defund Planned Parenthood–those trying to stop the flow of their Medicaid funds to the abortion provider–with potential violation of federal law and, ultimately, the cutting off of Medicaid funds to those states.
In an exclusive interview, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) tells Breitbart News she is continuing her push to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Though the House is officially in recess, committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), committee vice chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and committee chairman emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) signed letters to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, StemExpress, Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), and Novogenix Laboratories. A news release posted on the committee’s website states the request for further information “build[s] on the committee’s investigation into the shocking Planned Parenthood videos released in recent weeks.”
A woman walks into a Planned Parenthood clinic wanting to know if she’s pregnant, and if she is, can she get an abortion.
MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” host and NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell stated that people were “disturbed” by “what they think they saw” in the Planned Parenthood videos that were “taken out of context” during an interview with
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards responded to a question about the casual tone and wine drinking in the videos published by the Center for Medical Progress by blasting the group for creating “distorted and deceptive videos to do just that” on
The movement comes after four undercover videos — two this week — showing top executives at Planned Parenthood describing gruesome abortion procedures that occur in their clinics nationwide in order to sell the organs and tissue of unborn babies.
Roughly 15 days after the undercover videos claiming to show the sale of aborted baby body parts by Planned Parenthood officials hit the internet, Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards finally spoke about the controversy by calling for an investigation into the group that produced the videos.
According to Breitbart News’ calculations, each Planned Parenthood clinic receives more than $714,285 tax dollars every single year.
In an appearance on ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday, Planned Parenthood’s President, Cecile Richards, claimed her organization never profited from the sale of fetal organs. Instead, she claimed PP only charged to cover its own costs. That explanation is directly at odds with statements made in undercover video by a doctor who works for Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Diane Black blasted Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards for her attack on pro-life Americans during her appearance Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said the “most disgusting thing” about the undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors discussing the price of fetal tissue was that the videographers “lied” to gain access
Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) says he supports House Republicans in their planned investigations into Planned Parenthood following the release of an investigative video that reveals the abortion giant’s participation in the harvesting of aborted baby parts for sale to biomedical companies.
According to the letter, sent to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, the committee “respectfully requests Dr. [Deborah] Nucatola provide a briefing to committee staff no later than July 31, 2015.”
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards’s statement about the video released Wednesday by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) prompted a response from the pro-life group that conducted the undercover investigation into the abortion giant’s practice of harvesting body parts of aborted babies to sell to biomedical companies.
Planned Parenthood is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that protected birth control and led the way to the legalization of abortion.
While North Korean television depicted women in colorful traditional garb welcoming Steinem and the other activists along a main street in Pyongyang, hundreds of South Koreans reportedly accused the activists of “flattering Kim Jong-un” and promoting a “fake peace.” These protesters said the activists had allowed themselves to be used as propaganda by North Korea.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, has threaten an orange flood repeat at the Texas Capitol if Planned Parenthood’s cancer screening program is defunded.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards took to Twitter to mock the House GOP for pulling the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Wednesday–on the eve of the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
