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26
Apr
Pres. Obama became the first sitting president today to address Planned Parenthood.
This just after a new interview with Todd Akin, where he says he wishes he could take back his “legitimate rape” comments: http://usat.ly/Y1SEMo
06
Mar
Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and their affiliates can’t possibly communicate this message effectively because of their inherent conflict of interest. If teenagers consistently viewed sex as something to be saved for marriage, Planned Parenthood would lose abortion business.
Texas GOP: Planned Parenthood Is Convincing Teens To Get Pregnant So It Can Perform Their Abortions
You can’t make this shit up.
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
04
Sep
You see them everywhere on the streets surrounding the Democratic National Convention: legions of women sporting bright pink “Yes, We Plan” T-shirts, featuring an image of a pack of birth control pills.
08
Jun
04
Jun
“We remember who turned their backs on us and who voted to keep us healthy. November is just around the corner. Soon it will be our turn to vote.”
(Source: front.moveon.org)
01
May
Money is fungible, and taxpayer subsidies — even if ‘earmarked’ for nonabortion activities — free up other resources for Planned Parenthood to spend on its mission to promote elective abortions … (because ‘money is fungible,’ First Amendment does not prohibit application of federal material-support statute to individuals who give money to ‘humanitarian’ activities performed by terrorist organizations).
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott
I give up.
18
Apr
Planned Parenthood Branches Vote to Merge
The boards of three regional Planned Parenthood branches — North Texas, Central Texas and the Capital Region — have voted to merge, forming a $29 million-per-year mega-organization with 26 clinics up and down the Interstate 35 corridor.
The merger vote, in the works for more than a year, creates Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, the eighth-largest affiliate of the nation’s most ubiquitous reproductive health and abortion provider.
“The timing is right, in terms of looking ahead at the challenges we will face politically, and from a health care standpoint,” said Leslie MacLean, board chairwoman of Planned Parenthood of North Texas. “We felt like it was an obligation to look at all of the options to make us smarter and more efficient.”
14
Apr
11
Apr
Planned Parenthood is suing Texas for excluding the group from participating in a state program that provides contraception and check-ups to women.
The group contends in its lawsuit filed Wednesday in Austin that a new state law banning organizations affiliated with abortion providers from participating in the state’s Women’s Health Program amounts to unconstitutional discrimination by association.
The federal government has also cut funding to Texas over the issue. It says the law passed by conservative legislative Republicans last year cutting taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood because affiliates of the group offer abortions denies women the right to choose their health care providers.
No taxpayer money is used to fund abortions and the clinics that perform them are legally separate.
22
Mar
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) talks to Martin Bashir about the GOP’s ‘war on women’ in Texas and around the nation.
via msnbc
via tpmmedia