Category Archives: PPFA

Corporate “Creditability,” Not Money, Most Important to PPFA?

Former PPFA President Faye Wattleton

By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha Charlotte Hays is a terrific correspondent for the National Catholic Register, who wrote a piece that I just ran across. “Planned Parenthood and Komen: Future Funding Remains in Question: AT&T Situation Sheds Light on Defunding Issue”

Problematic District Attorney conclusion about Kansas document shredding cries out for more information

By Kathy Ostrowski, Kansans for Life Legislative Director Abortion news stories are often subjected to a Friday afternoon “news dump”—a practice intended to hide a story’s significance—but even by that standard the latest revelations about a Kansas investigation into document

Komen’s reversal hard for pro-life breast cancer survivors

Julie Schmit-Albin

By JulieSchmit-Albin, Executive Director, Nebraska Right to Life Editor’s note. This first appeared in the Lincoln Journal-Star As a pro-life activist who also happens to be a breast cancer survivor, I was encouraged by the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s recent

Ohio Planned Parenthood Affiliates Announce Plans to Merge in order to “increase political clout”

Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D.

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research That there has been another merger among Planned Parenthood affiliates is not news.   More than a dozen mergers have been announced in the last five years, including even some

Planned Parenthood CEO claims work to be sacred

Melanie Linton, president and CEO for PPFA Gulf Coast

By Sarah Crawford Editor’s note. This appeared Wednesday on the webpage of Texas Right to Life at www.texasrighttolife.com/a/843/Planned-Parenthood-CEO-claims-work-to-be-sacred#.TzPoyLutQir.twitter A Planned Parenthood affiliate’s newest president and CEO said in an official statement that she regards her work for the biggest abortion

Komen Senior Executive resigns as pro-abortion pressure continues to ratchet up

Karen Handel

By Dave Andrusko Planned Parenthood and its allies exacted another pound of flesh today when Karen Handel stepped down from her role as Komen for the Cure’s senior vice president for public policy and chief lobbyist. Pro-abortion blogs, which had

The Komen Race for the Cure and Planned Parenthood: A Follow Up, Part One of Three

Komen CEO Susan Brinker

By Dave Andrusko After a flurry of stories extending over the weekend into today, is there anything new about the tremendous onslaught against the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure foundation for its funding decision? Yes, some of it

The Komen Race for the Cure and Planned Parenthood: A Follow Up, Part Two of Three

Ross Douthat

By Dave Andrusko To the best of my knowledge only a few mainstream media outlets have felt the need to respond to the charge by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat that coverage of Komen’s decision on Planned Parenthood funding

The Komen Race for the Cure and Planned Parenthood: A Follow Up, Part Three of Three

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 By Dave Andrusko   In Part Two we wrote about New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s conclusion that coverage of Komen’s decision on Planned Parenthood funding had been “frankly brutal.” As we finish bringing you up to date, let me

Why Komen should not fund Planned Parenthood

James Taranto

By Paul Stark A few days ago, we learned that Susan G. Komen for the Cure had decided to stop providing grants to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates. Planned Parenthood responded in a classless and threatening fashion, breaking the story