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“Half of our health centers are in medically underserved communities”. “All these clinics, as far as I know, take Medicaid dollars, so you could go to any of those clinics to get any medical service you could”.

House Republicans asked Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards for more information about how much money the organization makes on abortions, sends overseas and spends on travel and salaries, following a grueling five-hour hearing Tuesday examining the nonprofit’s use...

Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, explained, “If we shut down the government, you can’t walk into Yellowstone Park, but you can walk into Planned Parenthood”.

Although a non-government-subsidized portion of Planned Parenthood’s funding goes to abortion services, most government funding provides pap smears, STD testing, HIV testing, birth control, pelvic, and breast cancer screenings for almost three million women.

Boehner himself lashed out at “false prophets” in the right’s ranks, blaming them for political strategies that “never had a chance” even while taking the government into fiscal crises.

The agency noted it had not received anything from Planned Parenthood, which must pay a $7,500 penalty.

One reason for the timing is that Republicans hope the Pontiff will notice how fastidious Republicans are on abortion and contraception. The Times said that the campaign against the reproductive health organization is based on deceptive smear videos, and ultimately comes down to...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke on the Senate floor after Senate Democrats filibustered a government funding bill that would have redirected money from Planned Parenthood to Community Health Centers. Not so much that a shutdown over the spending bill was in the offing, but...

North country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is calling for Congress to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, a position that places her at odds with the most conservative members of her own Republican party.

The organization has been the subject of ongoing controversy since a sting video was released that alleges it profits from the sale of fetal tissue.

Planned Parenthood, a non-profit group, has been under fire for weeks after secretly taped videos produced by an anti-abortion group recorded Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal tissue harvested from abortions.

Senate Democrats thwarted a Republican effort to ban late-term abortions on Tuesday as GOP leaders strained to avoid a government shutdown in eight days over the dispute – all against a tangled backdrop of presidential politics.

Other groups, such as Americans United for Life, have taken a relatively safer approach, which is to neither oppose nor support a government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding.

The U.S. Supreme Court in King v. This will force more people into the Obamacare health insurance marketplace and will lead to more people obtaining government subsidies. Meanwhile, other out-of-pocket costs are growing too.

McConnell, R-Ky., said the bill would take 5 million from Planned Parenthood as a “one-year moratorium” that would “allow us to press the pause button” while Congressional investigations into the alleged illegal sale of aborted fetal tissue continues. One...