By Dave Andrusko (Left to Right )Gianna Jessen; NRLC General Counsel James Bopp,Jr.; Priscilla Smith, director of the Yale Law School’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice; and Melissa Ohden are sworn in during a hearing before House Judiciary Committee. Alas, I had way too many irons in the fire Wednesday to be able … Read more
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life General Counsel James Bopp Jr. Today’s three-hour hearing of the House Judiciary Committee was titled, “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.” Testimony from witnesses and questions from committee members amply illustrated just how ghastly these “practices” are, recently brought to … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Each time you watch an undercover video released by the Center for Medical Progress, you ask yourself, “Can it get any worse?” And, unfortunately, with each successive video in which Planned Parenthood officials or those running the companies that harvest and sell baby body parts from Planned Parenthood clinics tell their horrific … Read more
By Katie Yoder More fuel doesn’t mean more fire – at least when it comes to the media’s coverage of Planned Parenthood. As more and more undercover footage surfaces, the networks dedicate less and less time to reporting on the horrific videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. In fact, the three broadcast networks, … Read more
WASHINGTON – The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) today released another video in its series exposing the harvesting and trafficking of baby body parts, often involving affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest abortion provider. This eighth video shows Cate Dyer, chief executive officer of StemExpress LLC discussing the business end … Read more
WASHINGTON – This morning The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released another video in a series exposing the baby body part harvesting and trafficking conducted by affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest abortion provider. This is the seventh such video released by CMP uncovering the gruesome nature of Planned Parenthood’s huge … Read more
By Dave Andrusko The last post for the first day of the week was intended to address a vociferous defense of abortion in general, Planned Parenthood in particular. I will offer a few comments about Rebecca Traister’s “The Big Secret of Abortion: Women Already Know How It Works” tomorrow. Today I focus first and primarily … Read more
WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life organizations, issued the following statement in response to a release today, by a group called The Center for Medical Progress, of a hidden-camera video purporting to show remarks by Deborah Nucatola, senior director for medical services for the Planned Parenthood Federation … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. By now, you’ve probably seen whatever is the latest story on another three (or whatever number) clinics closing in Texas (or whatever other state but usually Texas), attributed to “onerous” clinic regulations, limitations on “webcam abortions,” or laws that … Read more
Investigation of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Not Complete New Orleans, LA-In its report issued on February 19th, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor stated that he found no indication that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) fraudulently billed Medicaid or recommended abortions in Louisiana. However, the Legislative Auditor report represents only one small part of an ongoing … Read more