Category Archives: PPFA

Planned Parenthood’s Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and Waco Affiliates to Merge

Ken Lambrecht, current head of PP North Texas

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research What is Planned Parenthood’s immediate response to the Texas state legislature’s totally appropriate decision to route taxpayer-funded family planning dollars away from the abortion industry? To merge three of

Planned Parenthood Media Director New HHS Deputy Secretary for Public Affairs

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By Dave Andrusko Apparently the Obama Administration has decided “why bother with the middle man?” Health and Human Services—already under fire for a mandate requiring religious institutions and individuals of conscience to pay for health insurance plans that cover medical

Komen’s Capitulation is complete

Komen CEO Susan Brinker

By Dave Andrusko If a story in today’s Washington Post is accurate, the Komen Foundation for the Cure had fully capitulated to Planned Parenthood’s muscle. “Grants from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure are flowing to Planned Parenthood,

Filings unsealed in Kansas PP criminal case

Judge Stephen Tatum

By Kathy Ostrowski, Kansans for Life Legislative Director The stakes are high for Planned Parenthood of Kansas Mid-Missouri, as the prosecution for allegedly illegal late term abortions in 2003 inches closer to a possible trial under Judge Stephen Tatum. “Advocates

PPFA Sues Texas Over Women’s Health Program

Pro-Life Texas Gov. Rick Perry

By Dave Andrusko Eight affiliates of Texas Planned Parenthood filed suit in Austin today asking the federal courts for an injunction to stop the state from enforcing rules that disqualify abortion business affiliates from participating in the Texas’ Women’s Health

PPFA, the $1 billion dollar “abortion provider,” glories in its imaginary underdog status

Luis Zaffirini, NRLC Department of State Development.

By Luis Zaffirini The media has continued to lavish praise upon Planned Parenthood for their supposed social media prowess during the Komen controversy earlier this year where in the end Komen beat a hasty retreat. This praise ignores the fact

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains touts “Childbirth Preparation classes”

Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D.

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education and Research You’d think that having childbirth preparation classes would be commonplace at an organization devoted to parenthood. But it is big enough news at Planned Parenthood, which is known a

Obama Pitches “Special Message” to PPFA’s Political Arm

By Dave Andrusko When I watched pro-abortion President Barack Obama’s “special message to Planned Parenthood Action Fund supporters,” I immediately thought of an observation that is both 100% true and might also qualify as the understatement of 2011: “President Obama

Clinic Tied Up in Courts, Michigan Planned Parenthood Affiliate Opens Clinic Elsewhere

Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D.

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research Temporarily thwarted in their efforts to build a clinic in Auburn Hills, Planned Parenthood will be opening a clinic in a different location in Oakland County, Michigan, one of

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”