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
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This week the staff and I have been busy responding to the jury’s decision in the Kermit Gosnell murder trial. He was found guilty of first degree murder in 3 of the 4 babies’ deaths and involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient. He’s guilty of 1 count of infanticide, 1 count of racketeering, [...]
Ed note: This is a guest post by Kelly Castagnaro, Communications Director at the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR). Only days before today, the International Day against Homophobia, a Russian man was beaten, mutilated, and murdered after revealing he was gay to two strangers. His death reminded me of the many other deaths [...]
by Kirsten Andersen RICHMOND, VA, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Virginia Republican Convention will have some unusual guests Saturday: Planned Parenthood. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund will hold a pro-abortion rally at the state Republican Party convention in Richmond on Saturday, the day Cuccinelli is…
attribution: Planned Parenthood annual report 2011-2012 What Planned Parenthood does. The proximate cause of this anti-abortion site's outrage is an online Planned Parenthood ad with the text, "Your baby will thank you." What it shows, however, is that the right has demonized Planned Parenthood to the point of fever. Show More Summary
Washington's Ethics and Public Policy expert George Weigel skewered President Obama's recent blessing of Planned Parenthood's work as blasphemous on Wednesday and popular Calvinist theologian John Piper has tweeted in tacit agreement with the bold comment.
Washington, DC (LiveActionNews) — The other day, I was in the middle of doing research online when I stumbled across a Planned Parenthood ad. Planned Parenthood, over the years, has run some pretty shocking ad campaigns. Without a doubt, this one is the worst I’ve ever seen: This ad proves that insanity can indeed reach [...]
by Kristi Burton Brown May 16, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - The other day, I was in the middle of doing research online when I stumbled across a Planned Parenthood ad. Planned Parenthood, over the years, has run some pretty shocking ad campaigns. Without a doubt, this one is the worst I’ve ever seen: This ad proves…
The Obama administration’s IRS scandal involving discrimination against pro-life organizations continues to grow. The latest report shows the Internal Revenue Service denying tax exempt status to pro-life organizations at the behest of the nation’s biggest abortion business. Show More Summary
Attacking free speech and religious liberty as far back as 2009?
The IRS scandal of targeting tea party or conservative organizations grew deeper Wednesday with the revelation that the agency denied tax-exempt status to a pro-life organization because of its hypothetical opposition of Planned Parenthood. Show More Summary
Abortion activists love their folklore. Women. Hangers. Millions of deaths. None of it’s true, but it sure sounds scary in a sound bite. Planned Parenthood’s own Medical Director, Dr. Mary Calderone, in a 1959 article decrying the lack of social acceptance of abortion declared: “Abortion is no longer a dangerous procedure…90% of all illegal abortions [...]
From the May 14 edition of Fox News' The Five: Previously: Gosnell Conviction Revives False Abortion Analogies Fox Gosnell Special Promises To Equate Legal Abortions With Grotesque Crimes The Five Pretends Planned Parenthood Has Never Condemned Gosnell
Via Allah, who has more, but you'll have to go over there for that. The spin from Planned Parenthood is that Gosnell was apparently convicted for Conspiracy to Keep a Dirty Office -- that is to say, the only conviction...
by Abby Johnson Note: Abby Johnson is a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic who converted to the pro-life cause. She has since founded a ministry, And Then There Were None, which is dedicated to helping workers in abortion clinics transition out of the industry. May 14, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - I am…
On one hand, the responses of Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) have not surprised me. Because they are advocacy groups, I expected them to defend abortion even as they applauded the verdicts. On the other hand, I wondered if perhaps they would seek some common ground. Surely, everyone should be [...]
by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part his national celebration of Mother's Day, President Barack Obama invited the nation's leading abortion provider to a White House event and sent out a tweet boasting that his administration forces employers to provide women with…
The Planned Parenthood abortion business today applauded the verdict in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell. The applause is curious given that a Planned Parenthood representative said earlier this year that it is between a woman and her abortion “doctor” whether a baby born alive following a failed abortion should receive medical care [...]
On Monday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell reached a verdict, finding Gosnell guilty on three counts of first-degree murder for killing three babies born alive and one count of manslaughter in the death of one of his adult patients. Show More Summary
Today in Philadelphia, the judge complimented the jurors on the serious way in which they deliberated on what he called a “difficult case.” But it is one of the wonders of the time that our legal culture has produced such a cloud ofShow More Summary