Source: Alexander Burns / Politico The newly minted Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia once compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and bemoaned black voters’ “slavish devotion” to the Democratic Party — past statements that are likely to inflame the culture-war politics of the state’s 2013 elections. E.W. Jackson, a black minister [...]
Source: The Huffington Post A group of anti-abortion activists that Planned Parenthood has suspected is targeting it in a hoax investigation released the first of a series of videos on Tuesday that purportedly shows Planned Parenthood encouraging the selective abortions of girls in the United States. The activist group, Live Action, sent pregnant actors posing as patients [...]
Source: Chis Tomlinson / The Huffington Post AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals judge stepped into the fight over the Texas Women’s Health Program on Tuesday, saying he wanted to hear arguments on whether the state should be prevented from enforcing a law that bans Planned Parenthood from participating in the program. Less than 24 hours [...]
Source: CNN A Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin remained closed Monday after a homemade bomb was placed outside the building, the state organization said. The explosive device was found around 7:40 p.m. Sunday at the Appleton Health Center and had caused a small fire by the time Grand Chute fire officials arrived, Teri Huyck, president [...]
Source: Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that it will cut off all Medicaid funding for family planning to the state of Texas, following Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) decision to implement a new law that excludes Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program. Cindy Mann, [...]
Source: The Huffington Post Mitt Romney is walking back the comments he made about wanting to “get rid of” Planned Parenthood, saying Wednesday that he just wants to strip the organization of federal funds. “Planned Parenthood is a private organization. What I want to get rid of is the federal funding of Planned Parenthood,” he told Lynn [...]
Source: Jake Taper / ABC News Democrats have produced a web video accusing GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney of wanting to “get rid of” Planned Parenthood– an accusation the Romney campaign claims is false and taken out of context. The ad features Romney speaking to St. Louis TV station KDSK , which headlines the interview on its website: “Mitt [...]
Source: CNN Faced with a deluge of opposition that included pressure from lawmakers and internal dissent, one of America’s leading breast cancer advocacy groups on Friday reversed itself on a decision that would have cut off funding to some Planned Parenthood projects. “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast [...]
Source: Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s website appeared to be hacked briefly early Thursday morning. A banner on the website was changed from “help us get 26.2 or 13.1 miles closer to a world without breast cancer” to “help us run over poor women on our [...]
Source: Laura Bassett and Lisa Belkin / The Huffington Post Dr. Kathy Plesser, a Manhattan radiologist on the medical advisory board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s New York chapter, said she plans to resign from her position unless Komen reverses its decision to pull grant money from Planned Parenthood. “I’m a physician and [...]
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