National pro-life leaders were quick to respond with distrust to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards’s statement Tuesday that her abortion business would no longer accept payments for the body parts of aborted babies.
In a letter that asserts “patently false claims” are being waged against her abortion business to promote an “extreme political agenda,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards says that her organization will stop accepting payments for the organs of unborn babies.
Thousands are expected to turn out at Planned Parenthood clinics across the nation October 10 to protest the selling of body parts from aborted babies, as revealed in recent videos, and to demand the elimination of taxpayer funding from the abortion business.
Republican Rep. Renée Ellmers is pushing to get a seat on the new House Select Investigative Panel that will investigate Planned Parenthood organ-selling business, even though she blocked a popular pro-life bill in early 2015.
The pending Republican move to defund Planned Parenthood will depend on four GOP Senators who are facing tough swing-state elections in 2016, and who must decide whether to alienate feminist or pro-life groups.
Filmmaker and gun control advocate Michael Moore mocked Republicans Friday, stating, they “say that you have the right to regulate a woman’s uterus but not guns?…I think the only safe place for guns is in a woman’s uterus; then they would be regulated by our Republican Congress!”
National and state pro-life groups are sending a letter to GOP congressional leaders urging Republicans to use the reconciliation budgetary process to defund Planned Parenthood.
Over the weekend, the AP published a story attacking Carly Fiorina for “repeating an erroneous description of videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists.” As the correction to the revised story demonstrates, the AP also repeated an erroneous description of the same videos.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Sen. Ted Cruz says that state legislatures and governors now need to “stand up and lead” on defunding Planned Parenthood.
Children’s author Daniel Handler—also known as Lemony Snicket—announced on Twitter this week that he and his wife are donating $1 million to Planned Parenthood, stating that their “good fortune should be shared with noble causes.”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress on Wednesday, and the result was a train wreck of confusion that continues to confuse people just hearing about it a day later.
Mitch McConnell and his leadership team appear poised to enact every letter of President Obama’s agenda just to spite Ted Cruz. Mitch McConnell is melting down.
The author of the stand-alone Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 that the House approved, Rep. Diane Black was persistent in her message that a government shutdown would not be an effective strategy to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider in the wake of videos exposing its practices of selling the harvested body parts of aborted babies.
A movement of thousands of pro-life Floridians will hold a press conference Thursday to address the growing concern that Republican Gov. Rick Scott has not fulfilled his promises to their community on pro-life issues.
Conservative state lawmakers in Mississippi—who urged their congressional delegation in Washington D.C. to vote against a continuing resolution that would fund Planned Parenthood—found that their House members heeded them, but their U.S. Senators did not.
A group of conservative Mississippi state lawmakers are urging their congressional delegation in Washington to vote against any continuing resolution that includes funding for Planned Parenthood.
Stating on numerous occasions that she was trying to be as cooperative as possible with the committee, Cecil Richards nevertheless evaded some questions about Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, often responding she “did not know” the answer to questions a CEO might be expected to know. At one point, as Live Action president Lila Rose tweeted, she was asked if babies who survive abortions should be given medical care, Richards replied, “I have never heard of such a circumstance happening.”
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.
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.
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.
A federal judge told Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s administration Tuesday that the state needs to explain to Planned Parenthood why it is terminating its Medicaid contract with the abortion provider’s two Alabama facilities.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems to want two things: to avoid a government shutdown and to relieve himself of pressure from pro-life conservatives who want Planned Parenthood defunded after revelations of its organ harvesting practices.
Hillary Clinton said Sunday that there is no restriction on abortion that she would support, and falsely added that late-term abortions “that take place are because of medical necessity.”
Tension is mounting between House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Jim Jordan – both of Ohio – over strategy on how to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of revelations about the abortion giant’s organ harvesting practices.
The House passed a bill Friday, 241-186, that would place an immediate freeze on all Planned Parenthood federal funding for one year, while Congress investigates the abortion giant following revelations that it harvests the body parts of aborted babies to be sold on the open market.
