Category: PPFA

PPFA President Earns “Four Pinocchios” for Claim of Thousands of Abortions a Year Pre-Roe and 5,000 deaths By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. This look back at what previously appeared in NRL News Today  is an evergreen story in that it illustrates Planned Parenthood’s foundational dishonesty. Ironically, PPFA dumped …

By Paul Stark, Communications Director, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life A first-trimester surgical abortion, says Planned Parenthood to its prospective clients, uses suction to “take a pregnancy out of your uterus.” This description is literally nonsense. “Pregnancy” isn’t a thing in the womb that you can remove. Pregnancy isn’t a thing at all. It’s a …

By Secular Pro-life At a recent Congressional hearing on the Black maternal health crisis, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stated that her mother obtained prenatal care from Planned Parenthood and called herself a “Planned Parenthood baby.” AOC was quoted as saying: “If we want to talk about Planned Parenthood let’s talk about how many lives Planned …

By Carole Novielli  Before the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), often referred to simply as “AOC,” recently claimed that Planned Parenthood has saved “many lives” with their “prenatal care” services. She also claimed her own mother received prenatal care there, calling herself a “Planned Parenthood baby.” In her statement before a House committee hearing titled, “Birthing While Black: …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Wednesday’s look back at what appeared a year ago in NRL News Today reminds us that occasionally—not often but occasionally—Big Media actually practices journalism when reporting on Planned Parenthood. In addition to being very pro-abortion and very liberal, what does the Washington Post Fact checker and Slate magazine have in …

By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) Pro-life Virginians need to be aware that Planned Parenthood has set its deadly sights on expanding their awful activity in and around Virginia.  During the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Planned Parenthood opened a new abortion facility in the East …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation A public report from a recent inspection of a Planned Parenthood center in Pennsylvania reveals that the facility performed an abortion on a teenage girl without obtaining parental consent 24 hours prior to the abortion. This represents a clear violation of the Commonwealth’s time-tested Abortion Control …

By Michael Cook Planned Parenthood has a founder problem. Margaret Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist. Critics of Planned Parenthood have been needling the organisation over its founder’s dark ideas for decades. Finally, under the pressure of the anti-racist movement, PP has cracked. In an astonishing mea culpa in the op-ed page of the …

By Sarah Terzo Aletheia Meloncon, mother of Edrica Goode, who died from an abortion at Planned Parenthood in 2007. “My daughter made a choice, but she didn’t choose to die. A lost dog gets more attention than my daughter did. This has really torn at my family.” Edrica Goode was 21 when went to a …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, House Committee on Small Business Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) and Committee Member Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) sent a letter to the Department of the Treasury Secretary Yellen and Small Business Administrator Guzman urging an investigation into the millions of taxpayer dollars Planned Parenthood and its affiliates have received through Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) …

By Dave Andrusko It’s been a long, long three or four years for Planned Parenthood. We’ve posted story after story about the intra-mural battles within Planned Parenthood which (to put it in the mildest possible terms) do not put the nation’s leading “provider” of abortion in the best possible light even among its supporters.  That along …