The trend continues. After already exposing two Planned Parenthood clinics in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and Richmond, Virginia willingly helping a pimp cover up the sexual exploitation of under aged girls, today Live Action has released three more videos — from Falls Church, Va. Roanoke, Va. and Charlottesville, Va. — seemingly showing the same thing at different Planned Parenthood locations. (more)
In the first real attempt to dismantle the nation’s health care law, two Republican congressmen introduced legislation prohibiting the federal funding of abortions, calling the procedure “accepted bigotry.” (more)
NEW YORK (WABC) – New and eye-opening statistics about the rate of abortions in New York City have been released by the Health Department. (more)
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded this year to Robert G. Edwards, an English biologist who, with a physician colleague, Patrick Steptoe, developed the in vitro fertilization procedure for treating human infertility. (more)
At least 11 states have passed laws this year regulating or restricting abortion, giving opponents of abortion what partisans on both sides of the issue say is an unusually high number of victories. In four additional states, bills have passed at least one house of the legislature. (more)
The sexual health clinic Marie Stopes International has paid for a slot on Channel 4 on Monday for an advert targeted at women in the middle of an unplanned pregnancy. (more)
A DEPARTMENT OF Human Services caseworker pressured a pregnant Mayfair teenager to undergo a late-term abortion by threatening to take away either her toddler or her unborn baby if she had the child, according to the teen’s foster mother. (more)
A new undercover video reveals medically inaccurate abortion counseling at a tax-funded Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic. The video, released by youth-led pro-life group Live Action, records Planned Parenthood staff distorting basic facts of fetal development and pressuring a woman to have an abortion. (more)
In response to a March 14, 2010, op-ed in the Washington Post by T.R. Reid, titled “Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate,” Americans United for Life vice president for legal affairs William Saunders offers the following rebuttal. (more)
NOW’s commentary on the health care debate isn’t surprising to those well-versed in the organization’s far left rhetoric. Let’s take a quick peek. (more)
To read press releases and advertisements unveiled by Planned Parenthood over the last few months, one would think that pro-life members of Congress want to strip all services for women out of healthcare reform. Planned Parenthood portrays these public servants as evil masterminds who are plotting to limit women’s access to insurance coverage and health care. They cry out that “women won’t stand for their benefits being taken away.” (more)
The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. (more)
The White House has now offered its own version of ObamaCare. It’s not a bill so much as it is an 11-page “talking points” memo, a description of elements the Obama administration would like to see in a final bill. It’s so vague that the Congressional Budget Office throws its hands up. CBO doesn’t have the time or the level of detail it would need even to venture a guess as to how much all this will cost American taxpayers. (more)
“Our videos have results in a Planned Parenthood staff firing, resignation, and the Birmingham Planned Parenthood clinic being placed on probation for 9 legal violations,” say the creators of the clip, Live Action Films. LAF has created a string of videos documenting the failure of various Planned Parenthood clinics to report instances of child abuse to states, as required by law. In this clip, a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic appears to counsel a 14-year-old statutory rape victim to not mention her 31-year old rapist to authorities. (more)
State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy. (more)
The woman sent by government scientists visited the Queens apartment repeatedly before finding anyone home. And the person who finally answered the door — a 30-year-old Colombian-born waitress named Alejandra — was wary. (more)
Former college and professional football player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner released an online message for Planned Parenthood this week in response to a Focus on the Family ad that’s set to air during the Super Bowl. The advertisement, featuring Heisman Trophy-winning football quarterback Tim Tebow, has drawn intense criticism from feminist groups, most notably the National Organization for Women. The rhetoric has been so strong that even abortion advocates like Sally Jenkins at the Washington Post have returned fire, calling the Tebow ad “one of the better things to happen to young women in a long time.” (more)
