Category: PPFA

‘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 The only surprising part of the decision by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to challenge Iowa’s new law requiring a 24 hour period of reflection after an abortion-minded woman has her first appointment is that it took over a week to file and before pro-life Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed the bill …

By Dave Andrusko When its president and CEO Laura McQuade came under a withering attack from former and currently employees on a plethora of grounds, the board of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York apologized for various institutional shortcomings but said it “fully supports the work and leadership of Laura McQuade and her team and …

But board stands behind Laura McQuade By Dave Andrusko It hasn’t even been a year since Planned Parenthood unceremoniously kicked Dr. Leana Wen, its much-vaunted new president, to the curb and PPFA is again up to its ears in another intra-office scandal.  To put it mildly, last year’s vitriolic back and forth did not reflect …

By Katie Yoder  The nation’s largest abortion provider regularly claims that it provides “life-saving” services while highlighting “pro-life” abortionists. But as it continues toying with double entendres, Planned Parenthood’s language appears less as a mere coincidence and more as a blatant mockery of the pro-life movement. The latest example came on June 15, when Planned …

By PNCI—the Parliamentary Network For Critical Issues The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has announced that its new 15-member Board of Trustees is headed by Kate Gilmore, who from 2015-2019 was United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. While in that position Gilmore actively promoted access to abortion as a human right despite the …

By Dave Andrusko Correctly or not, I had decided to skip talking about the latest descent of a fan-favorite television into shilling for Planned Parenthood. But, now that “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” aired last night—with Bravo host Andy Cohen playing for the an organization that takes the lives of 320,000 unborn babies each …

By Dave Andrusko Missouri Right to Life reported today that Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi “said Planned Parenthood demonstrated that it meets the requirements for renewal of its abortion facility license in St. Louis.” The ruling “comes after months of review of testimony and legal briefings of a showdown between the Missouri Department of …

By Secular Pro-Life On May 18 the Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy published “Standing Up For Women? How Party and Gender Influence Politicians’ Online Discussion of Planned Parenthood.” In this study, researcher Morgan Johnstonbaugh analyzed tweets by members of the 114th House of Representatives regarding Planned Parenthood. She narrowed the focus to tweets made …

PPFA President Wen 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. Our look back at what appeared in NRL News Today exactly one year ago today is an evergreen story: Planned Parenthood’s foundational dishonesty. Ironically, …

By Ryan Scott Bomberger, co-founder, Radiance Foundation Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post that appeared here and is reposted with permission. No one exposes the lies the Planned Parenthood spews better and more adeptly than Mr. Bomberger. Somehow the “My Body My Choice” crowd doesn’t understand the difference between an elective “choice” and essential …

WASHINGTON – According to a report yesterday from Fox News, thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received more than $80 million in funds from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, created by Congress to provide relief for small businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Planned Parenthood has more than 16,000 employees nationwide. “The …