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In The Wake Of Deadly Tornado, Oklahoma Senators Focus On Voting To Defund Planned Parenthood

Oklahoma residents are still recovering from Monday’s devastating tornado, which killed over 20 people and likely incurred billions of dollars in damages. But their elected officials are currently focusing on some other priorities that fall outside of disaster relief. On Wednesday, Oklahoma state senators approved a bill that would strip funding from the state’s Planned [...]

Komen’s Planned Parenthood Defunder Announces Georgia Senate Bid

Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood isn't great for your career as a public policy executive for one of the world's largest women's health foundations, but it may kick-start your career as a Republican lawmaker. The AP reports that Karen Handel — who resigned from Susan G. Komen For the Cure amid the controversy last year ... More »

No peace, no peace I find

The nut from Komen who tried to defund Planned Parenthood may be the next Georgia Senator: Republican representative Tom Price told the Marietta Daily Journal on Friday that he won’t run for Senate in 2014. This means that Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, will “more likely than not” enter the Senate primary, [...]

Ohio Republicans Won’t Stop Pushing To Defund Planned Parenthood

Ohio’s anti-choice lawmakers are hoping the third time will be the charm in their crusade to strip funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates. The legislature is currently reviving an effort to “re-prioritize” family planning funding in the state, which would serve to slash about $2 million dollars from the 32 Planned Parenthood clinics currently operating in [...]

Arkansas Senate Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood

Members of the Arkansas Senate voted Tuesday to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers that receive federal and state grants to fund sex education programs.

Arkansas State Senate Passes Bill To Defund Sex Education

Abortion foes in the Arkansas State Senate passed a bill yesterday to ban certain funding grants to Planned Parenthood.  The chosen grants heading to the chopping block?  Sex education. Which sucks, because Planned Parenthood provided the state’s sex ed. According to Think Progress, Arkansas lacks a codified set of sex education requirements, which is why [...]

Arkansas Senate Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood and Sex Ed Funding

The Arkansas Senate passed a bill yesterday that defunds Planned Parenthood and all other entities that provide abortions, refer patients to other abortion providers or contract with an abortion provider or referrer. (If you accidentally...Show More Summary

Arkansas Senate OKs Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

The Arkansas Senate passes a bill today that would defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the Natural State. “Arkansas Senate Bill 818, introduced by state Rep. Gary Stubblefield (R-Branch), would block all state funds from going to any entity that provides abortions or refers patients to other abortion providers,” says a report in the [...]

The Santorum Plan Stinks

Rick Santorum's plan to save the Republican Party? Defund Planned Parenthood, according to National Memo. "[W]e are going to push Republican congressional leaders to defund the monstrosity that is Planned Parenthood,” Santorum wrote....Show More Summary

Rick Santorum’s plan to revitalize the GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood

Using Medicaid Expansions to Defund Planned Parenthood?

Just when we thought we'd seen it all - anti-choice lobbyists in Arizona are trying to defund Planned Parenthood by exploiting the state's move to expand Medicaid through Obamacare. Available as part of the Affordable Care Act, states...Show More Summary

Marsha Blackburn: Defund Planned Parenthood for Endorsing Infanticide

Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn is calling for Planned Parenthood to be defunded after Florida PP official Alisa Lepolt openly endorsed...

Congresswoman: Defund Planned Parenthood Over Its Infanticide OK

A leading pro-life member of Congress says Planned Parenthood’s latest endorsement of post-birth abortions, or infanticide, should be reason enough for Congress to yank its taxpayer funding. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, has sent a letter to Planned Parenthood in response to their advocacy in support of post-birth abortion before the Florida state legislature. [...]

Montana GOP Proposes Family Planning Cuts That Would Increase Unintended Pregnancies By 62 Percent

Even though the majority of Americans don’t agree with Republicans’ quest to defund Planned Parenthood, abortion opponents across the country continue to find ways to target the women’s health organization — even at the expense of their own constituents. Republican lawmakers in Montana seem to be intent on joining the national trend, advancing a state [...]

Obama administration does end run around Texas law defunding Planned Parenthood

by Kirsten Andersen Co-authored with John Jalsevac AUSTIN, March 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama seems determined to fund Planned Parenthood any way he can. After Texas passed a law forbidding state Medicaid funds to be used at facilities that perform abortions, the Obama administration cut off…

Arizona anti-abortion lobbyists try to defund Planned Parenthood via Medicaid expansion

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has infuriated many in her home state by opting into Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. One powerful lobbying group, however, is trying to use her plan to expand health care to more low-income Arizonans to do something...Show More Summary

Anti-Abortion Lobbyists Pressure Arizona To Use Medicaid Expansion To Defund Planned Parenthood

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a vocal opponent of President Obama’s health reform law, surprised her Republican colleagues when she announced her support for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion at the beginning of this year. Since then, Brewer has been attempting to broker a deal with the legislators in her state, who will ultimately need to approve the [...]

House Votes To Defund NDSU/Planned Parenthood Partnership

North Dakota State University set off a controversy when, thumbing its collective nose at the legislature, they partnered with abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood for sex education research. Legislators objected to NDSU use of funds to partner with Planned Parenthood, but Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem sided with NDSU. Show More Summary

Open thread for night owls: Survey shows defunding Planned Parenthood hurts Texas women

Jaeah Lee writes This Is What Happens When You Defund Planned Parenthood: About a year after Texas slashed its family-planning budget by two-thirds, with 50 clinics shutting down as a result, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project surveyed 300 pregnant women seeking an abortion in Texas. Show More Summary

By The Numbers: The Dangerous Consequences Of Texas’ Crusade Against Planned Parenthood

At the beginning of this year, Texas officials succeeded in their yearlong crusade to defund Planned Parenthood, a move that has forced thousands of low-income women to search for new doctors — and Republicans in the state show no signs of easing up in their obsession to block the national health organization at every turn. [...]