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During a Planned Parenthood event, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told townhall attendees the “future of women’s rights is at stake” in the election next week. She called on women “to stand up and fight before it’s too late” to protect “women’s right to abortion” and “paid family and medical leave.”

The series of videos last summer also exposed Planned Parenthood’s apparent practices of selling the body parts of babies it aborts on the open market and altering the position of babies during abortions in order to harvest their most intact organs.

Additionally, the platform committee, led by Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), asserts the Republican Party will “not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage.”

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn now describes himself as a “pro-life Democrat” and said the “law should be changed” on abortion.

The leaders assert in a letter that the House’s Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives has worked to uncover Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue trafficking program and its “turn-key business relationship” with biomedical procurement company StemExpress. The outcome, they say, is that the panel has “established probable cause that federal law prohibiting the for-profit exchange of fetal tissue had been violated.”

The only Planned Parenthood clinic in Hattiesburg does not perform abortions, and has taken less than $1,000 in Medicaid funding in each of the past five years. However, Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee chairman Brice Wiggins (R) said after the state Senate voted to approve the defunding measure, “You are the company you keep and by Mississippi reimbursing Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, we are keeping that company.”

The CEO of the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Kansas says Gov. Sam Brownback is furthering “an extreme political agenda” by eliminating the abortion business’ Medicaid funding.

Abortions in Texas are down by almost 9,000 since 2014 in the Lone Star State. Texas legislators and pro-life activists are saying that this is “something to celebrate.”

A bill that would both redirect Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to health care centers that do not perform abortions, and require abortion clinics to have the same safety standards as other outpatient surgical facilities has been approved in Florida and now heads to the desk of Gov. Rick Scott (R).

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to differentiate herself from rival Bernie Sanders on a question about limiting abortion rights by asserting she favors a “late-pregnancy regulation” with ‘”exceptions for the life and health of the mother” – a “restriction” that is essentially meaningless.

The GOP-led Virginia assembly voted to eliminate taxpayer funding from the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics and redirect it to other health care facilities.

The Mississippi Senate has voted to block state Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday Donald Trump continues to offer public support of Planned Parenthood because he is already “running a national presidential campaign” and “already thinks in terms of being the nominee.”

Any American who says abortion is not an important issue in the 2016 campaign will get an argument from abortion-business leader Planned Parenthood, which is promising to spend at least $10 million to aid Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Michigan, Virginia, and Texas.

Donald Trump said during the GOP debate Thursday that he is pro-life and also “totally against abortion.”

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that she appreciated Donald Trump’s statement that her organization does “some very good work,” though not regarding abortions.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed two pro-life bills Thursday that will eliminate more of Planned Parenthood’s funding in Wisconsin.

Within minutes of Ted Cruz’s victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday night, Planned Parenthood began attacking the pro-life GOP candidate on Twitter.

Carly Fiorina responded to a biased abortion question about her position on the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal during the Fox News undercard debate Thursday night.

Progressives and liberals have created false narratives around women and abortion, GOP presidential contender Carly Fiorina said today at a press conference with reporters covering the March for Life.

In an ironic twist, abortion political advocacy organization NARAL Pro-Choice America has rebuked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her statement to Roll Call’s Melinda Henneberger that she is not for “abortion on demand.”

“President Obama’s gall is stunning,” said Rep. Diane Black, author of the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, in a statement. “He spent this week discussing the need to ‘protect innocent people’ and ‘save more lives’ yet he callously vetoed a bill to protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us from the heinous abuses of Planned Parenthood.”

As the House of Representatives readies for a “show vote” on a reconciliation measure that would defund Planned Parenthood, Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released a new video that focuses on the profits associated with harvesting fetal body parts.

Congressional Republicans are touting a bill scheduled for a vote next week that would gut Obamacare’s mandates and taxes and eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in favor of other health centers that do not perform abortions.

Next week, Congress is expected to send President Obama a bill that would both defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare’s mandates and the taxes that enable the law.

A federal judge reversed his prior decision and ruled that Utah has the authority to end its contracts with Planned Parenthood and eliminate the organization’s federal funding in that state.

As a bastion of the dark side of the Force, Planned Parenthood co-opted Star Wars imagery in an attempt to capitalize on the outstanding popularity of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Despite a year on defense following its worst scandal yet, Planned Parenthood hasn’t lost its place at the government trough for 2016, a fact that means the nation’s largest abortion provider has yet another year to push its narrative that defunding it would be “harmful” to “women’s healthcare.”

Actress Patricia Heaton of ABC’s The Middle will headline the pro-life rally OneLife LA in Los Angeles on January 23, 2016, just one day after the March for Life in Washington, D.C.

On Sunday, Planned Parenthood tweeted a link to an article at Fusion, titled “Life in a Magical Land Where Abortions and Birth Control Are Free and Plentiful,” a far cry from even pro-abortion President Bill Clinton’s exhortation at the Democrat National Convention in August of 1996 that abortion be “rare.”

A new poll finds the majority of Americans favor a plan backed by Republicans to eliminate Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding and redirect that funding to other clinics that do not perform abortions.

Taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood affiliates were among the 24 nonprofits devoting more than half their total spending to influence elections between 2008 and 2013, in an apparent violation of tax rules, says a new report.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says his office’s investigation into Planned Parenthood reveals aborted babies from Planned Parenthood clinics are disposed of in landfills.

The Club for Growth is endorsing a Republican primary challenger to Rep. Renee Ellmers in North Carolina’s Second District. Its choice is Jim Duncan, a retired businessman.

A fundraising Consultant for the Polk County Republican Party, MacKenzie Dreeszen, tells Breitbart News her almna status was revoked by her sorority, Delta Phi Delta, at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa because of her “Conservative political beliefs.”

WOODBRIDGE, Virginia — GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee commented on the Senate’s vote Thursday night defunding Planned Parenthood and gutting key parts of Obamacare, saying, “It’s kinda better late than never.”