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In something out of a dystopian nightmare, the US House of Representatives has voted to stop federal funding to Planned Parenthood for a year.

Establishment candidates are out.

Democrats accused Republicans of engaging in baseless attacks against Planned Parenthood, with the larger goal of trying to limit women’s abortion rights, according to the New York Times.

The videos that purport to show Planned Parenthood officials breaking the law come from an anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress. “When it comes to defunding Planned Parenthood, the issue should not be partisan”.

“I’m not talking about republicans, I’m talking about Americans who look at these videos from Planned Parenthood and are just sickened by it”, said Representative Chris Stewart, ( R ) Ut. The Senate has not yet acted on the issue. It, too, faces likely...

Three Republicans voted against the defunding bill while 183 Democrats voted against it. Republican Steve King of Iowa vote present.

Elected officials have a responsibility to the American public to ensure the integrity of taxpayer-funded programs. It’s just plain rude. Controversial?

As Republicans huddled, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the controversial Planned Parenthood videos. Planned Parenthood turned their corpses into “revenue” while cloaking their actions in the language of choice.

Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., a vocal opponent of funding Planned Parenthood, said that allowing Obama and Democrats to trigger a government shutdown over the issue shifts the focus to the shutdown and “denies us a critical opportunity to explain why the pro-life position is...

Then, in an August 27 letter to Congress, Richards admitted that ABR pays Planned Parenthood $60 “per tissue specimen”.

No state funds go to PP; rather the organization used to get around $150,000 a year in federal pass-through monies for women’s health issues.

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...

The anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress said the videos it released show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells fetal tissue for profit. However, findings from a new poll suggest that’s not an effective political strategy, since the majority of Americans...

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.

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.