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In the aftermath of vociferous protest from pro-life activists, the “global leader of the breast cancer movement,” the Susan G. Komen Foundation has halted further grants to affiliates of the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women. (more)

Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s niece, told The Daily Caller that Planned Parenthood should not receive any taxpayer funds and that her uncle opposed abortion. She encouraged President Barack Obama to watch films like “Blood Money” that show the high levels of genocide caused by abortion. (more)

This weekend the country will be begin its 40th year of living under Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the landmark Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion, sparking deep division in the nation between those who seek the right to protect life at all its stages and those who support a woman’s right to choose to terminate the life of her own child. (more)

On the day of the Iowa caucuses, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich changed course away from his largely positive campaign, launching an attack on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In an interview on CBS’s “The Early Show” with Norah O’Donnell and Bob Schieffer, Gingrich called his opponent a liar and said his nomination would jeopardize the GOP’s 2012 election chances.. (more)

Forget about the giggling whispers in the back of the bus or the awkward mother–daughter sex conversations. Planned Parenthood is prepared to answer all your children’s pressing sex questions — at least in Denver, where the abortion provider’s local affiliate has adopted a new program to answer sex questions via text messages. (more)

B&H Publishing Group, a Christian publisher, has discontinued a special pink-covered “Here’s Hope Cancer Awareness Bible.” Proceeds from sales went in part to Susan G. Komen for the Cure — which has affiliates that donate to Planned Parenthood. (more)

Seven former employees of Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates expressed their support for a congressional investigation of the abortion provider this week, and offered to testify against their former employer. (more)

Nothing says it’s the holiday season like talking about abortion, right? (more)

Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations, has launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood — and the group and its allies are not taking the move sitting down. (more)

Even while facing a Justice Department lawsuit for allegedly obstructing access to an abortion facility, elderly pro-life activist Richard Retta continues to council and attempt to sway women from getting an abortion in front of the Planned Parenthood of downtown Washington, DC. (more)

In celebration of Monday’s Department of Health and Human Services announcement that all insurers must cover contraceptives without charging patient co-payments, Planned Parenthood’s leaders felt the need to show some excitement. (more)

In 1993, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge halted the enforcement of annual health inspections of his state’s abortion clinics. In 2010, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Pennsylvania abortion provider, was charged with murder and infanticide. Gosnell is accused of breaking state laws by performing late-term abortions, killing children born alive as the result of botched abortions and using unsterilized medical instruments. At least one patient died while under Dr. Gosnell’s care and many others have been infected with venereal diseases. (more)

The Department of Justice is bringing an elderly pro-life activist to court for allegedly intimidating women attempting to get abortions at a Planned Parenthood facility in Washington, D.C. (more)

Kansas just skirted the distinction of becoming the first state without an abortion provider Thursday, giving an eleventh-hour license to one of the three clinics in the state before a new law regulating abortion clinics went into effect today. (more)

Pro-life watchdog group Live Action released a series of undercover phone calls Wednesday exposing Planned Parenthood of Indiana as not being the only place women on Medicaid can get health care — despite Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards’ claim that if Indiana de-funded Planned Parenthood it would “take away health care from thousands of women in Indiana.” (more)

As the Planned Parenthood defunding debate rages on, “Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler has come to the defense of the embattled organization. The Huffington Post reports that Poehler wrote a fundraising letter released on Monday, praising Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards as “smart,” “tough,” and “totally dedicated to fighting for women’s health.” (more)

Anti-Planned Parenthood activists were dealt a blow Saturday when a federal judge in Indiana halted the enforcement of a law preventing Medicaid funding from going to the group. But on Sunday, those activists were able to take comfort in Wisconsin’s newly signed budget. (more)

A federal judge in Indiana has stopped enforcement of the state’s law that would eliminate Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, National Journal reports. (more)

A Latino advocacy group is charging that abortion providers are targeting their communities, making their frustration known with a jumbo billboard campaign in Los Angeles, California. (more)