Category: PPFA

By Kansans for Life Editor’s note. PPGP is based in Overland Park, Kansas, and operates 10 health care centers in Kansas Missouri, Arkansas.and Oklahoma. Planned Parenthood of the Great Plains (PPGP), the affiliate that operates Planned Parenthood locations in Kansas, is offering severance packages to employees in the communications, development, education, human resources, finance and …

By Dave Andrusko We’ve discussed many, many times how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has made a career out being ahead of the conformist-thinking crowd. However, it’s only been in the last year or three  that his enormous influence has begun to be recognized. As we wrote last year, for example, “But now, after 28 …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research, and Dave Andrusko, NRL News Today editor It was no more than a casual throwaway line  in some of last week’s stories. You’ll recall there was a media firestorm of sorts when Planned Parenthood of Greater New York decided it was time to remove …

By Dave Andrusko Did someone (me, for example) say five takeaways from the blockbuster decision  by Planned Parenthood of New York to remove Margaret Sanger’s name from its Manhattan health clinic? Honestly, I could name 20.  This decision is genuinely historic. Here’s why (and here’s my five takeaways). And, by the way, to rub salt …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood of New York announced that it was removing the name of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from its facility’s name because of its founder’s “harmful connections to the eugenics movement.”  Planned Parenthood has long minimized Sanger’s eugenic statements, although it said in a 2016 “Factsheet” that it “strongly …

By Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) Editor’s note. The belated split between Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliate and PPFA Margaret Sanger was long overdue. As we reported yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York said it was it was “remov[ing]  the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because …

By Dave Andrusko Given what has transpired the last few months, it comes as no surprise that “Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because of her ‘harmful connections to the eugenics movement,’” according to Nikita Stewart, writing …

By Petra Last November, Planned Parenthood launched a new tool on their website they term the “Abortion Care Finder.” This tool was made in response to the bevy of pro-life legislation introduced at the state level last year. The tool works by asking your age, first day of last period, and your zip code and then provides users with …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note.  As we’ve discussed over the last two weeks, Planned Parenthood is in a heap of trouble. Firing Dr. Wen was not the first sign of internal turmoil but it was, and is, the most public. As it turned out, canning Dr. Wen prefigured a slew of negative news about the …

‘If Planned Parenthood is one of the leaders, if not the leader, of the pro-choice movement, perhaps it needs to take some responsibility for the movement being in a shambles.’ By Clare Marie Merkowsky BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 14, 2020— A former Planned Parenthood employee wrote in The Guardian that the top U.S. abortion organization is the reason …

By Dave Andrusko On June 23, when we wrote about the canning of the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, PPFA’s largest affiliate, the lengthy list of angry particulars included abusive behavior, racism, and financial mismanagement. Tucked away was what might have been the coup de grace for CEO Laura McQuade: the comments …