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Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama’s new law that bans most abortions in the state, save those to prevent a serious health risk to the mother.

Abortion activist Jessica Pickney said at a protest in D.C. on Tuesday that banning abortion is like the “forced breeding” of slaves.

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio has republished its style guide in the wake of recent abortion legislation, urging its staff to stick to language that does not accidentally humanize the unborn child.

Abortion proponents are now urgently making deceptive claims about what will happen if the procedure is banned or if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Leana Wen said Planned Parenthood is about taking care of women, and abortion bans endanger women’s health, even as millions of female babies have been aborted since the high court legalized the procedure in 1973.

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) said if women don’t have access to abortions, they will be “terrified of their own bodies.”

Two presidential candidates were on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest abortion bans.

The Texas House of Representatives passed a measure Friday night that would ban any state or local government from using taxpayer funds to partner with abortion providers, even for non-abortion services.

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom joined with Planned Parenthood supporters Saturday to condemn legislation that severely restricts abortion in an increasing number of states.

Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania tweeted a video message Thursday in which he vowed to veto any bill to restrict abortion that passes the legislature in his state.

Dr. Alveda King, director of Priests for Life’s Civil Rights for the Unborn project and niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., called out the “very racist” comments about abortion made by model Emily Ratajkowski.

A bill that would have expanded unlimited late-term abortion in Rhode Island failed in the state Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

The president of Planned Parenthood reacted Friday to the sweeping pro-life legislation taking place recently in a number of states by calling it a “terrifying time for women in America.”

Missouri’s Republican-led House passed a pro-life bill that protects unborn babies from abortion at eight weeks of pregnancy and asserts the state is a “sanctuary of life.”

Left-wing activist Emily Ratajkowski is making an anti-science argument to justify the murder of unborn black children as a means to lower the prison population.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) bizarrely claimed Thursday there would be as many Planned Parenthood clinics as post offices in the United States if male lawmakers could get pregnant.

Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker (D-NJ) promises to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land and fully fund Planned Parenthood in the wake of several states passing strict anti-abortion legislation.

Abortion activists have called for a protest against Alabama’s new law that bans most abortions in the state as it also declares unborn babies to be persons.

Abortion industry giants and their political allies condemned a ban on most abortions passed by the Alabama state Senate Tuesday and headed to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk.

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D) tweeted a video message Monday night in which he referred to pro-life lawmakers in his state as “so extreme and so callous” for approving a bill that would make most abortions illegal.

Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Brian Sims has locked his Twitter account after a pro-life rally outside a Planned Parenthood facility Friday drew hundreds of activists protesting his harassment and bullying of a woman and teens who were praying at the clinic.

The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England said Vermont is now “the shining example for all other states” of the radical, pro-abortion legislation that has become a mark of the Democrat Party.

A board member of the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia schooled Democrat Brian Sims on what constitutes “real racism.”

Hundreds of pro-life activists gathered outside the Elizabeth Blackwell Center Planned Parenthood facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where disgraced Democrat state Rep. Brian Sims recorded himself as he bullied a woman and teens praying in front of the clinic.

Hollywood actress Busy Philipps revealed that she had an abortion at 15 and used the occasion to slam Georgia’s new “Heartbeat” law that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

National pro-life leaders will join together outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at which Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Brian Sims filmed himself as he accosted and berated a pro-life woman and doxed several pro-life teens.

Last week, a 6-1 majority of the Kansas Supreme Court handed down a disturbing decision that epitomizes judicial activism. In Hodel and Nauser v. Schmidt, the Court upheld a lower court injunction against a Kansas law that banned dismemberment abortions.

Abby Johnson said Tuesday Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Brian Sims’ video message in which he attempts to justify his aggressive berating of a pro-life woman outside of a Planned Parenthood facility “isn’t cutting it.”

Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Brian Sims posted a video to Facebook in which he is seen attempting to get the names and addresses of pro-life teens peacefully protesting at a Planned Parenthood facility.

Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims videotaped himself last week as he rebuked a woman he called an “old white lady,” who was praying the rosary as she demonstrated in front of a Planned Parenthood facility.

House Democrats joined with Planned Parenthood last week to introduce two measures that would ensure the abortion chain’s brand of sex ed — which focuses on contraception, abortion, and LGBTQ sex — receives federal funding.

Planned Parenthood said Thursday that while the group is “disgusted” by State Rep. John Rogers’ “reprehensible” remarks about abortion, the real problem with them is they are serving as a “complete distraction” from the “death sentence” that an abortion ban would mean for women.

Students supporting Planned Parenthood at the University of Texas-San Antonio mocked members of the school’s Students for Life of America group in front of a pro-life display last month. One pro-Planned Parenthood student shouted that “aborting fetuses” is her “number one kink.”

The former president of Planned Parenthood and a Black Lives Matter co-founder are joining with the director of a domestic workers’ advocacy group to launch a new political action group in advance of the 2020 election.

House Democrats specified Monday that Title X family planning grants could not be used to fund the Trump administration’s new rule that makes a clear distinction between abortion and family planning.

Documentation released this week at Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting revealed the bank’s contributions to abortion vendor Planned Parenthood amounted to direct support and not just a matching gift program as the corporation had allegedly informed its customers.