By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research To pro-lifers, the overturning of Roe was one of the best things that ever happened to this country. To Planned Parenthood, it was the worst. The opening text of the inside cover of Planned Parenthood’s 2021-2022 Annual Report says it directly: This was the year the … Read more
By Dave Andrusko It may—or may not—be “temporary” but Susan Rinkunas wrote a story for Jezebel.com last week that “Planned Parenthood quietly stopped scheduling abortions this month at its clinics in Georgia and Alabama and canceled some existing appointments, due to what it said were staffing issues at its Southeast affiliate. “The organization said the … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Iowa Supreme Court Photo: Ctjf83 (CC BY-SA 3.0) By a near unanimous 6-1 vote, the Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower court decision and upheld a 2019 law that “prohibited abortion providers from participating in two federally funded educational grant programs directed at reducing teenage pregnancy and promoting abstinence.” According to … Read more
By Dave Andrusko You have to hand it to Planned Parenthood. Few are as adroit as creating shell companies and employing misdirection so that no Fairview Heights, Illinois city official knew that the nation’s leading abortion provider was secretly converting an existing but vacant medical office into a gigantic 18,000 sq. foot clinic where it … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Sarah Stoesz will be the president of the new consolidated organization which will be known as Planned Parenthood North Central States. Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the … Read more
Department of Justice By Dave Andrusko There we were last night watching Fox News when we learned Fox News had obtained a letter sent by Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the Senate Judiciary Committee formally requested unredacted documents from the Committee supporting a December 2016 report titled “Human Fetal … Read more
By Tim Graham Linda Greenhouse Former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse is really letting it all hang out in her new book Just a Journalist, writing about how she was thrilled to violate all the norms of “objective” journalism while working for 40 years at the Times. Monthly donations to Planned Parenthood, marching for … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research and Dave Andrusko If you’ve read any of the news from the mainstream media, you’ve probably been told that Planned Parenthood has been “under assault” for years, not because of videos that expose just some of their unseemly practices but because evil pro-lifers just … Read more
Editor’s note. Part One of a three-part series ran last week. Part Three will run Tuesday. MYTH #3: Without government money, Planned Parenthood will have to shut down lots of their clinics. Planned Parenthood does receive government money – a LOT of government money. In its most recent annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of … Read more
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