The Latest News about Planned Parenthood

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 ...

The American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood filed a Tuesday lawsuit against the Trump administration over its latest move to force abortion clinics to separate abortion from other health care services in order to qualify for Title X funding. The groups argue that the final rule is unconstitutional and violates a congressional mandate requiring health care providers receiving Title X ...

The Trump administration issued a rule Friday barring Title X funds from supporting programs and organizations that provide abortions. The rule states that “none of the funds appropriated for Title X may be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.” The move will force Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics to separate their palliative services such ...

Virginia’s unborn are discovering what can happen when leftists take over state government. Although Democrat’s ‘compassion’ for illegals and murderers knows no bounds, the defenseless unborn take it on the chin. This wouldn’t have happened if Trump had lost to Hillary. After the president threatened to drain their habitat, Swamp creatures in the Old Dominion united to elect leftists. If ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction forbidding Texas from stripping Planned Parenthood of Medicaid Funds. The decision is also significant for its harsh criticism of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.  The case will now return to a federal trial court, where Planned Parenthood will have another chance to secure an injunction against Texas.  The ...

Planned Parenthood discriminates against pregnant women, according to allegations levied by women in a Thursday article published by The New York Times. Current and former employees shared in interviews and legal documents that the abortion organization fired, refused to promote, and mistreated pregnant employees. Planned Parenthood said it will investigate the allegations and evaluate its paid maternity leave program which ...

Pregnancy centers across the U.S. are seeking to access Title X funding currently allocated to Planned Parenthood and other health centers providing contraception and abortions. Pregnancy centers may soon be able to access these funds under a proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revising the guidelines for Title X family planning program funds. Pro-life groups and ...

Planned Parenthood is standing by the Women’s March, even as accusations of anti-Semitism roil the left-wing activist group. An investigation published by Tablet Magazine on Monday revealed Women’s March leaders repeatedly made anti-Semitic remarks, including spreading conspiracy theories about Jews being responsible for the slave trade. The investigation also revealed that ties between Women’s March leaders and Nation of Islam — ...

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said he hopes Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted against hearing a case on Planned Parenthood for the right reasons, on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday. Kavanaugh joined the other four liberal justices on the court and Chief Justice John Roberts, in declining to hear a case involving funding for the abortion group. It only take ...

The Supreme Court declined to review three cases relating to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood at the state level Monday, over a vigorous dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas. The dissent was significant because it indicates that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the high court’s liberal wing to deny review of a lower court decision that favored the nation’s largest ...

The session of Congress that occurs after the just–completed election and the swearing in of the new Congress in January is called a lame duck session. It will last four weeks. These are the last weeks Republicans will be in control of both houses of Congress and the White House. This was supposed to be a golden age of conservative ...

Republican incumbents are getting nervous as election day approaches. And for good reason. The political party of the left, Democrats, has energized its base while the country club conservatives in the GOP have euthanized theirs. Evidently, the strategy is to rely on muscle memory to get conservatives to the polls, because the so-called accomplishments certainly won’t. Confirming Supreme Court justices ...