The Latest News about Planned Parenthood

Students praying outside a Washington Planned Parenthood were exposed to multiple instances of obscene and inappropriate behavior from people passing by. Incidents included a man masturbating at the students from a car, a woman flashing the students, a man hurling a glass vial at them, and a woman yelling, “Hail Satan.” “We will not back down because this just demonstrates ...

Acting Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson said Thursday that American support for abortion safety requirements is due to a “campaign of misinformation” about abortion access. McGill Johnson spoke on “CBS This Morning” regarding June Medical Services v. Russo, a Supreme Court case in which an abortion provider is challenging a 2014 Louisiana state law that requires abortion providers to ...

The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List announced a $52 million effort to back President Donald Trump and Republicans the same week Planned Parenthood launched a $45 million campaign backing Democrats. Pro-life and pro-choice groups are ramping up efforts heading into the 2020 presidential election. Planned Parenthood announced earlier this week that the organization, which is the nation’s largest abortion provider, ...

Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn for the District of Colorado announced today that a federal grand jury in Denver has returned a 68-count indictment charging Robert Lewis Dear Jr., 61, with crimes related to the Nov. 27, 2015, shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where three people died, including a ...

Google favors Planned Parenthood results for “abortion” more than twice as much as other search engines do, a Wall Street Journal report released Friday found. The Wall Street Journal conducted tests searching the word “abortion” over 17 days in  July and August. The tests found Planned Parenthood‘s hostname www.plannedparenthood.org contained in 39% of organic search results on the first page ...

Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio have shut down following the organization’s withdrawal from the federal family funding program Title X. The Cincinnati, Ohio, clinics will be closing after Planned Parenthood formally withdrew from Title X in August, thereby forgoing about $60 million a year. A Planned Parenthood spokesman told ABC News that the Cincinnati clinics that are closing are ...

Former sex educator Monica Cline told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Planned Parenthood “grooms” children for abortion. Cline worked as a sexual health education instructor with Planned Parenthood for ten years. Planned Parenthood taught her to teach children about every type of sexual activity, she says, because the organization assumes children already do these things. Former sex educator Monica ...

As of Monday, Planned Parenthood is falsely claiming that it was “forced out” of the federal Title X family planning program. This program offers birth control and other various health services to low-income women. Planned Parenthood has announced the decision of rejecting federal funds for family planning for low-income women. This comes on the bases of the Trump administration’s rule ...

An Arizona court awarded $3 million to Planned Parenthood whistleblower, Mayra Rodriguez, Friday. Rodriguez worked for Planned Parenthood for 17 years before she was terminated for reporting health and safety violations. “You know when you have been married to a person for 17 years and you find out they have been cheating on you? That deception that you feel in ...

Planned Parenthood withdrew from a federal family planning program Monday rather than comply with President Donald Trump’s abortion rules. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America withdrew from the Title X federal family planning program, according to Politico. The move comes after Planned Parenthood officials petitioned for a stay against the Trump administration’s Title X rules in an Aug. 14 letter ...

Planned Parenthood is threatening to formally withdraw from Title X funding by Aug. 19 unless a federal court intervenes. Planned Parenthood officials petitioned for a stay against the Trump administration’s new Title X rules in a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, NPR reported. Planned Parenthood said will pull out of the family planning program ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Alabama and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit Friday morning against restrictive Alabama abortion legislation signed in May. ACLU groups and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit “on behalf of Alabama abortion providers” in the United States District Court of the Middle District of Alabama, according to a press ...

Massachusetts is the first state to set aside funding to compensate for the possible loss of federal contributions supporting women’s reproductive health clinics following a new rule under the Trump administration that prohibits federally funded family planning offices from sharing space with an abortion provider or merely suggesting having the procedure. The law approves $8 million in funding to prepare ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a request to dismiss a case accusing a pro-life group of illegally filming and releasing video footage of abortion workers allegedly negotiating the illegal sale of aborted baby parts. The high court rejected The Center for Medical Progress’s plea to dismiss a 2016 Planned Parenthood lawsuit alleging that CMP fraudulently obtained video ...

A federal court upheld an Ohio law barring state agencies from funding abortion organizations Tuesday, ruling that abortion providers don’t have a constitutional right to perform abortions. The United State Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled Tuesday in Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio et al. v. Hodges to place a permanent injunction on state funds going to support ...