Abortion is an issue in the deep blue state of Vermont, where Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott has been targeted by Democrats for his past support for legislation that restricts late-term abortions and requires parents to be notified when their teenage daughters are seeking an abortion.
Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton vowed again to appoint Supreme Court justices who support abortion and same-sex marriage, during her appearance at the second presidential debate Oct. 10.
“Well, I don’t really, actually – I don’t know that there’s an exact answer for that,” Cecile Richards replied to a question by Doug Wagner of WHO Newsradio.
Senate Democrats have introduced a resolution to recognize the centennial anniversary of Planned Parenthood and to promote its continuance in the country for years to come. The resolution, led by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, is co-sponsored by 18 other Senate
Emails obtained by the Washington Times show that California Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris’s office collaborated with Planned Parenthood to produce legislation that targets David Daleiden, the lead undercover journalist who exposed the organization’s alleged profiting from the body parts of aborted babies.
The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives has voted to hold fetal tissue procurement company StemExpress in contempt for failing to provide documents required by a congressional subpoena.
It’s nearly the end of September and time once again for another congressional battle over a continuing resolution – or CR – a spending bill that funds the government for a short period of time. This time, the crux of the battle is over funding for Zika virus research and prevention.
For a third time, Senate Democrats are blocking the approval of a bill that would provide $1.1 billion to help in the fight against the Zika virus.
As the 2016 presidential campaign enters its final stretch, the abortion lobby is helping to mobilize women voters for Hillary Clinton during a week of campaign events.
The undercover journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s alleged baby-parts-for-sale scheme is responding to yet another lawsuit filed by the abortion giant in a federal court demanding further suppression of public records of its fetal harvesting activities.
Democrats have for the first time in their Party’s history fully embraced a platform against the right to life – and here is why.
A new video by American Values Action (AVA) demonstrates the extreme views on abortion held by Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says unborn babies have no constitutional right to life – even up until their due date after nine months of pregnancy.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) tells Democracy Now! viewers that he wants Democrats to come together to ensure abortion business Planned Parenthood is protected from defunding by Republicans.
“There are folks like me all across the country,” John Bel Edwards reportedly said. “I would just encourage them to become part of the party and become part of the solution, seek elected office so that collectively we can change the Democratic Party on this issue.”
A new research study illuminates the alarming paradox that, despite the fact that no credible scientific theory has refuted the reality that all human life begins at conception, the scientific community has not reported abortion as a “cause of death” in the country’s vital statistics system, a practice that aids public ignorance of the massive racial disparities associated with the procedure.
Democrat presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate, a man who shifted to a fully pro-abortion stance in order to be in sync with Clinton, who believes an unborn baby – up until its birth – has no constitutional rights and can be aborted if that is the choice of his or her mother.
“This platform’s language just says (to abortion opponents) you are no longer welcome,” said Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, reports USA Today. “This has been the general message pro-life Democrats are receiving across the country.”
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.”
Florida U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney (R) writes in an op-ed at the Palm Beach Post that Democrats are blaming Republicans for the failure of the Zika funding bill in order to advance their radical pro-abortion and environmental agendas.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) is using the words of Pope Francis earlier this year about the outbreak of Zika in Latin America in order to urge Republicans to vote to include funding for abortion giant Planned Parenthood in a measure that supposedly would help combat the mosquito-borne virus.
The increasingly radicalized Democrat Party is embracing abortion like never before in the latest draft of its platform, which includes particular support for Planned Parenthood against defunding efforts, and a vow to repeal the Hyde Amendment, a provision that prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion.
“There is so much we don’t know,” Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, a Johns Hopkins Hospital expert in pregnancy and infectious disease, stressed during a Capitol Hill briefing about Zika. “We don’t know the true incidence among pregnant women.”
Planned Parenthood has been taking advantage of fears surrounding the Zika virus and the birth defect known as microcephaly that is linked with the virus. The abortion giant is particularly targeting Latin American countries that have restrictive abortion laws, in hopes of capitalizing on women’s fear and changing those laws
“This victory gives us the opportunity to march state by state, legislature by legislature, rule by rule, bill by bill, and reclaim women’s health and rights across the country, 100%, no burdens on any woman, anywhere,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Through its alliance with the Democrat Party and the pro-abortion mainstream media, Planned Parenthood has promoted the notion that its biggest money-makers — abortion and birth control — are the means to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is being linked to cases of a rare birth defect called microcephaly, primarily in Brazil.
The abortion industry and its allies are celebrating the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision that strikes down a Texas law requiring abortion clinics to maintain the same health and safety standards as other outpatient surgical facilities.
Hillary Clinton, who chose to be with her “Planned Parenthood family” in her first address since clinching the Democrat Party’s nomination for president, vowed to the abortion business, “I will always have your back.”
In her introductory remarks to an address by Democrat presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton at an event of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Cecile Richards made no mention of the rights of men, but tailored all her remarks around “women and families.”
Planned Parenthood endorses Clinton, who stated in April that “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
Rep. Marsha Blackburn urged the HHS to investigate evidence that shows StemExpress and its contracted abortion clinics violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The HIPAA rule is intended to protect the privacy of patient’s medical information.
Democrats in Congress have called for the end of the special House panel charged with investigating the allegations of the illegal buying and selling of aborted baby body parts, and, most recently, the practices of notorious late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, who has allegedly sent at least five of his abortion patients to the hospital from his Maryland clinic since December alone.
The nation’s largest abortion provider is taking a victory lap. Planned Parenthood says Ted Cruz lost his bid for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination because of his repeated attacks against abortion.
The House Armed Services Committee has rejected an amendment, 25-37, that would have permitted members of the service and their dependents to obtain abortions at military facilities.
Tom Del Beccaro, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, said during a debate Monday evening that state California Attorney General Kamala Harris should relinquish her investigation into David Daleiden, the investigative journalist who produced the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s apparent fetal tissue trafficking scandal.
Some pregnancy centers in California are not complying with a new state law that requires them to post information about free access to abortions through the state.
The Obama administration is once again threatening officials – this time in all 50 states – that cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding could be a violation of federal law.
Democrats who have received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood failed to derail a hearing called by a bipartisan House panel that is investigating the abortion business’ alleged involvement in the for-profit sale of aborted baby body
Democrat-backing Planned Parenthood has identified Sen. Kelly Ayotte as its first target in the 2016 Senate races when Democrats hope to regain control of the chamber. Planned Parenthood Votes, which is the abortion business’s advocacy group, is launching its first televised
