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“The federal government has made it clear that states can not cut women off from high-quality health care at Planned Parenthood like this”, echoed Planned Parenthood’s executive vice president Dawn Laguens in a statement. “Women and their daughters all...

“No, no.”

Lisa Elliott says she made the hard choice to have an abortion, and says each women’s decision is unique. Most of our health centers are located in rural or underserved areas, meaning that for many of our patients, Planned Parenthood will be the only provider they see all...

But the state still says Planned Parenthood self-reported abortions performed in the second trimester at the three clinics cited and the investigation continues.

Gov. Jindal did. He, like many of his pro-life colleagues, were disgusted by what they saw (workers treating aborted babies like goods and services, keeping clients in the dark, etc.) and are launching investigations into the organization and introducing bills to defund it.

Planned Parenthood’s offices in Center City.

The case arose as the Center for Medical Progress released videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing their practices in harvesting and distributing aborted fetal organs for research. Both men and women also receive other services, such as cancer screening, from Planned...

In a letter to the pro-life organization headed by activist David Daleiden, Cummings questioned whether broke state and federal laws by secretly taping conversations with Planned Parenthood officials.

To those who would argue that Planned Parenthood provides many essential services to women of the United States: they may, but there are plenty of other sources available for the same or better services.

Jindal, who has been positioning himself to be the candidate for social conservatives, pulled Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood after videos leaked from a conservative organization alleged the organization was selling aborted fetuses.

Planned Parenthood’s Louisiana affiliate provided health care, contraception and sexually transmitted disease and HIV testing to more than 5,000 Medicaid patients a year before Jindal ended its Medicaid contract Aug. 3.

“The undercover videos expose the potential illegality of Planned Parenthood’s actions, and the grisly, inhuman nature of their business”, added ADF Senior Counsel Michael J. Norton.

Rob Portman and three other GOP swing-state senators who are up for re-election in 2016. Planned Parenthood supporters now plan their own rally at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in front of the James M. Hanley Federal Building in Syracuse.

The Center for Medical Progress, which has now released seven undercover videos about fetal tissue collection and distribution, said state and federal laws require that the same treatment be given to an infant born-alive after an abortion as to a normally delivered baby.

None of Planned Parenthood’s clinics in the South Atlantic region – which includes the Carolinas, West Virginia and much of Virginia – participates in fetal tissue collection, according to its regional office in Raleigh, North Carolina.