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It is uncertain that a California pro-life group’s ongoing series of undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the illegal marketing and sale of fetal tissue will lead to defunding for the nation’s leading provider of abortion services.

The incident triggered protests by party workers. They open fire and he falls to the ground. As Das fell down, another assailant shot him in his head. With the Bihar assembly polls round the corner, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have linked the incident to the deteriorating...

House Republican leaders announced July 15 a congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood, a day after anti-abortion activists released a video of an unsuspecting official from the organization explaining how it provides fetal tissue to researchers.

Abortion opponents say the recordings caught Planned Parenthood illegally selling the organs for profit, while Planned Parenthood officials — while apologizing for their workers’ businesslike words — say they’ve abided by laws that let them recoup the...

On Monday, the Senate voted 53-46 to advance a GOP bill terminating Planned Parenthood’s federal funds.

The ruling comes after the Center for Medical Progress began releasing undercover videos which showed Planned Parenthood abortionists describing how they harvest and sell body parts.

The bill sponsored by more than 40 Republican senators was the GOP’s first move to punish Planned Parenthood after undercover videos raised questions about its practice of making fetal tissue available for medical research. Democrats successfully blocked the legislation...

A federal judge in San Francisco extended a restraining order on Monday that blocks an anti-abortion group from releasing any recordings that it secretly gathered at annual meetings of an abortion providers’ association. The videos have been especially controversial because...

In a complaint filed on Friday in San Francisco federal court, the National Abortion Federation, a nonprofit representing abortion providers, accused the Center for Medical Progress and its founder David Daleiden of violating federal racketeering law through their pro-life...

Planned Parenthood officials say they are not breaking any laws and denies all of Daleiden’s allegations.

There are 54 Republicans and just a small handful of anti-abortion Democrats, though some abortion-rights Democrats have avoided defending the comments that Planned Parenthood officials made in the videos.

But while Richards stated on Thursday that Nucatola’s tone in the video lacked compassion, she refuted conclusions that Planned Parenthood makes money from fetal body parts and organs. The GOP leaders also requested that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates “preserve...

Richards’ response? It’s completely and utterly untrue.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin executive director Tanya Atkinson said Kremer’s call for an investigation is part of a series of “ongoing and unwarranted political attacks” on the organization. Three Republican-led congressional committees are...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the Ten Commandments monument removed from the state Capitol grounds hree years after its installation led to a lawsuit by the ACLU and a battle over religious freedom, free speech and the spearation of church and state. Surprisingly, ordained...