By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Beginning today, we are running a three-part series that offers a thorough overview of what the special Select Investigative Panel of the Energy and Commerce Committee found in its Final Report released in early January about the involvement of Planned Parenthood in … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Elsewhere on Thursday’s edition of National Right to Life News Today, we will also go into great detail to explain the success NRLC enjoyed against the richly-funded, militantly pro-abortion “EMILY’s List.” Back in May, the Planned Parenthood expressed its intention to spend … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Planned Parenthood, the brainchild of eugenicist Margaret Sanger, celebrated its 100th birthday October 16. Over the last month, NRL News Today wrote at length about the eerie confluence of the 40th anniversary of the life-affirming Hyde Amendment, on September 30, and the 100th anniversary of the life-denying Planned Parenthood Federation of America. … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Cecile Richards and Margaret Sanger Okay, I appreciate the need to thread the needle-that is, for PPFA to acknowledge (in the most minimal imaginable fashion) some of the outrageous things its founder did and said without raining on Planned Parenthood’s parade in celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding by the notorious … Read more
By Callista Ring Planned Parenthood celebrates its 100th anniversary this Sunday, October 16. Over the years, the organization, which has aborted 7 million babies since 1970 (according to pro-life organizations), has never been short of support from its star-studded fan base. From actress Kerry Washington to comedian Amy Poehler, here are 100 of the most … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research There have been a great many stories in NRL News, the pro-life media in general, and elsewhere about the clinic closings at Planned Parenthood, the mergers, the scandalous videos that reveal that the organs of children are harvested from late abortions. On a Monday through … Read more
By Dave Andrusko We are now into Video #11 in the ongoing undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood and so-called Tissue Procurement Companies-the ones that are the middlemen between the abortion clinics and the researchers eager to experiment on intact baby body parts. Yet even so when I watched the latest video released by the Center … Read more
Bill would curtail flow of federal taxpayer dollars to nation’s abortion giant WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the “Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act,” (H.R. 3762), 240-189. Among other things, the bill would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). In … Read more
House Judiciary Committee’s second hearing on PPFA By Dave Andrusko Rep. Bob Goodlatte On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), held the kind of remarkable hearing on Planned Parenthood that you knew would garner almost no media attention. Because nothing of substance happened? No, to the contrary. The committee’s work … Read more
By Dave Andrusko After listening to a nearly five-hour long hearing, late yesterday we posted “Five Takeaways from House Oversight Committee hearing on PPFA’s governmental funding.” Of course, the five could have been 20. Here are five additional thoughts. There are many goals Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards had in mind as she testified before … Read more