Planned Parenthood performed more abortions in 2021 and 2022 despite a massive decrease in patients, according to its latest annual report.
The country&#8217;s largest abortion provider <a href="https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/ec/f4/ecf43d92-fcd2-4d11-b299-e67b5c3ac394/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that it <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2022-23-annual-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performed</a> 392,715 abortions in the fiscal year ending in fall 2022.
That total is more than 18,000, or 5% higher, than the number of abortions performed the previous year, according to an analysis by the Charlotte Lozier Institute. It&#8217;s also a 20% increase over the organization&#8217;s past 10 annual reports.
Abortions made up more than 97% of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s pregnancy resolution services. Prenatal care, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals made up the other less than 3%. All in all, the abortion provider performed 228 abortions for every adoption referral, a higher ratio than each of the past 10 years.
“Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, abortion and more abortion,&#8221; said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
&#8220;Their annual report shocks the conscience, showing that they ended nearly 393,000 American lives in a single year. This puts abortions performed by Planned Parenthood in the top four leading causes of death in the United States, after heart disease, cancer and COVID-19,&#8221; Dannenfelser said.
The annual reports “consistently provide solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion,” said Michael New, a social scientist and senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, which analyzed the report.
While abortions were spiking, Planned Parenthood was serving fewer patients.
The report shows a total of 2.05 million patients over this period, 80,000 fewer people than the previous year.
Since 2010, Planned Parenthood&#8217;s total services have plummeted 17%.
Prenatal services are down 80% since peaking in 2009, and contraceptive services are down 39%. Cancer prevention services, which include breast exams and pap tests, have declined by 71%.
Despite the decrease in patients and services, however, the abortion giant&#8217;s total revenue and taxpayer funding have climbed.
Planned Parenthood reported more than $2 billion in income in its latest annual report, an increase from the previous year.
Taxpayer funding has increased 43% since 2010, reaching $699.3 million in the latest report, nearly $2 million a day, and making up 34% of the organization&#8217;s total revenue.
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The abortion provider also experienced a huge 44% jump in private donations for a total of $997.5 million.
Planned Parenthood&#8217;s total revenue over expenses was $178.6 million.
Pregnant women who walk into Planned Parenthood are &#8220;sold an abortion&#8221; 97% of the time rather than &#8220;helped to keep their child,&#8221; and meanwhile the abortion provider&#8217;s political arm spends money lobbying the federal government against &#8220;commonsense policies like protecting babies born alive after failed abortions,&#8221; Dannenfelser said.

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Democrats are going to try to shift the entire election so it becomes about abortion.
Donald Trump made a very savvy political move in dissociating himself from the issue entirely; he said that the federal government should not be involved in the abortion issue.
Though I am strenuously against abortion, the reality is that the most the president of the United States can do unilaterally without congressional approval is implement items like the Mexico City policy, which is funding for abortion overseas, or target spending at Planned Parenthood domestically.
The reality is that there used to be a fairly wide consensus that the federal government should not involve itself in abortion by funding abortion. Joe Biden is the one who broke that pact by saying that you and I should fund abortions across the country. He&#8217;s the one who said the Hyde Amendment should go.
So Trump made a politically moderate move by saying let the states take care of it.
Then, on Tuesday, an Arizona state Supreme Court decision came down that reinstated a 160-year-old abortion ban in the state of Arizona unless it was necessary to save a woman&#8217;s life.
By the way, this gives the lie to the frequently used Democratic narrative that there were no abortion laws and no one cared about it until Roe v. Wade. There were abortion laws on virtually every state book dating back centuries in this country.
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What Democrats want is for pro-lifers to move really fast and really hard in a wide variety of battleground states, hoping they will then get the Michigan-Kansas response.
As you may recall, Kansas put a measure on the ballot calling essentially for the capacity to change the state constitution to allow for abortion legislation, and opponents said, “They&#8217;re going to ban all abortions in the state.” Instead, Kansas ended up enshrining abortion in the state constitution. The same thing happened in Michigan.
This is an argument I&#8217;ve had with many of my pro-life colleagues. We all have the same exact position when it comes to life, that life should be protected from the point of conception. The question is: How do you reach that in a durable manner such that the law does not end up being reversed and allowing millions of abortions over the course of time?
That is a pragmatic question, and not every state is going to approach it the same way; Mississippi, Alabama, and deep red states can pass very strict abortion bans and all will be fine because the vast majority of the population supports such bans.
But in Arizona, a very split state right now, it becomes far more difficult.
The reason the Democrats are elevating this — not just on the state level, but on the national level — is because they are hoping to be able to pin the full pro-life position on Trump federally, even though this is happening in the state of Arizona.
There was a report that Arizona Republican legislators thought the court’s decision would flip the legislature to the Democrats and affect the presidential election.
Trump preempted the Arizona Supreme Court decision by taking it off the federal table.
That leaves Democrats with a conundrum.
The conundrum is that Trump is more moderate than they are on this issue — and they know electorally, that could hurt them.

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This is the first part of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-offers-the-case-against-murder-an-anti-abortion-speech-at-university-of-wisconsin-madison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
For most of American history, the intentional killing of unborn babies was illegal. From the colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century, when abortion was surgically impossible and chemically dubious, it was not a major public issue. In that era — obviously long before ultrasounds — people did not know exactly when or how conception occurred, outside of the basics. Inasmuch as they did know, and in so far as it was addressed by the law, abortion was outlawed.
By the turn of the twentieth century, abortion was a felony in every state. The legal distinction between early abortions and later-term abortions also began to disappear as scientists came to understand that the first movement of the unborn baby — known as quickening — did not represent a particularly significant moment in the development of the baby.
One can understand why earlier generations might have thought that “quickening” would be morally and legally significant. But scientific advancements revealed details about human physical development that thinkers such as Aristotle simply would not have been able to know. And as our understanding of when and how conception occurs changed, our laws changed to reflect it. Simple enough.
A couple of decades into the twentieth century, with the rise of the eugenics movement that sought to exterminate disfavored populations such as the mentally handicapped and certain racial minorities, Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which became Planned Parenthood a couple decades later.
By the late 1960s, after decades of activism, the pro-abortion movement successfully decriminalized abortion in certain limited cases — rape, incest, threat to the health of the mother — in one state: Colorado. Several states soon followed. By the early 1970s, some states, such as New York, had gone further, legalizing abortion all the way up to the 24th week of pregnancy. Then in 1973, the Supreme Court discovered a previously unidentified constitutional “right” to murder babies. 
That supposed “right” seems to have eluded the men who wrote the Constitution, as well as the nine generations of Americans that lived between ratification and Roe v. Wade. Perhaps the abortion clause of the Constitution was written in some secret code known only to twentieth-century liberals.
Whatever the case, in 1973, the Court pretended that the Constitution granted a right to kill babies through abortion. 19 years later, as the pro-life movement picked up steam and Roe began to crumble under its own incoherence, the Court revisited the question in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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In Casey, the Court made an even stranger ruling than it had in Roe, deciding that the practical outcome of Roe — the license to kill unborn babies in the first trimester, sometimes in the second, and usually not in the third — was sound, but that the reasoning around the decision was not sound. So the Court threw out Roe’s trimester system and changed the reasoning to argue that women had a right to kill their kids until the baby was “viable,” after which point they might still kill their kids, but it depended on state law. Maybe. 
The Casey decision changed some of the other constitutional reasoning — or lack thereof — from Roe as well. But the practical implications — now even more legally and constitutionally preposterous — remained unchanged until the Dobbs decision a couple years ago, which happily overturned Roe and Casey and returned our law and jurisprudence to what had been the norm for most of American history, when abortion was not considered a right and usually was simply outlawed.
That is about three centuries of American abortion law in under ten paragraphs, all of which I mention because the pro-abortion crowd wants to pretend that infanticide is a constitutional right deeply embedded in the American political tradition. And it just simply isn’t. In fact, the license to abortion is an aberration that even its most significant defenders have admitted is legally dubious. Very sus.
Justice Harry Blackmun, the most liberal justice on the Court who wrote the majority decision in Roe v. Wade, admitted in writing that the Court’s logic was more or less gobbledegook. While some justices favored the viability standard that came to be adopted in Casey, Justice Blackmun pointed out the pointlessness of quibbling over the precise moment at which infanticide would be acceptable. “You will observe,” Blackmun <a href="https://www.justfacts.com/abortion.blackmun.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “that I have concluded that the end of the first trimester is critical. This is arbitrary, but perhaps any other selected point, such as quickening or viability, is equally arbitrary.”
Of course it’s arbitrary, as must be any selected point other than conception, which by definition marks the beginning of the individual human life. Some of the sillier abortion advocates today will sometimes claim that a baby in the womb does not constitute a “human life.” They will say, “It isn’t a baby; it’s a fetus” — unaware that the word fetus is just the Latin word for “offspring” — in this case, the offspring of two human beings, also known as a baby.
Or they’ll say that the baby, at an early stage of development, isn’t a baby but rather a “zygote” or a “blastula.” They make the baby sound like a Pokemon or something. But of course, we have all sorts of different terms to denote different stages of human development: zygote, blastula, embryo, fetus, baby, infant, toddler, kid, teen, adult, old man, geezer. All the stages are distinct. Teens can do some things that babies can’t — like speak. Adults can do some things that teens can’t — like control themselves. Sometimes. Geezers, oddly enough, start to act like toddlers again. (At the extremes, human development starts to look a bit more circular.) But in any case, no particular stage between the beginning and the end either confers or negates our humanity. We’re human the whole time.
We know that babies in the womb are human because they have human parents. If a woman gave birth to a platypus, that would be a cause for great concern. If I were the husband, I would have questions. But it wouldn’t happen because that’s not how reproduction works. We know that babies in the womb are human, and we also know they’re alive. We know they’re alive because they exhibit the characteristics of life: cellular organization, growth, the potential to reproduce, adaptation, etc. All the characteristics you learned in middle school science class.
The baby in the womb is obviously human, just as the baby in the womb is obviously alive. If the baby were not alive, there would be no cause for an abortion. There would be nothing to terminate. Liberals sometimes try to deny these facts or at least to soften them with euphemisms. They do so because, even as they advocate for abortion, they recognize its moral repugnance. They don’t want to admit what everyone with even a modicum of sense and honesty knows, which is that abortion is a type of homicide.
The feminist writer Naomi Wolf discussed this fact bluntly in the mid-‘90s. She <a href="https://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/abortion/wolf-our-bodies.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Abortion should be legal; it is sometimes even necessary. Sometimes the mother must be able to decide that the fetus, in its full humanity, must die.” Wolf was wrong, obviously, in her conclusion, but at least she was honest. Abortion, by definition, ends a human life.

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The Pro-Abortion Crowd Wants To Pretend That Infanticide Is A Constitutional Right 

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Roe v. Wade's Long And Brutal Legacy

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood</a> staff and managers appeared to discuss the sale of aborted babies’ body parts and other gruesome abortion practices in videos viewed publicly for the first time this week by lawmakers during a hearing in Washington, D.C.
At the Tuesday hearing, called “Investigating the Black Market of Baby Organ Harvesting,” Center for Medical Progress (CMP) President David Daleiden told lawmakers that videos obtained by his organization showed Planned Parenthood revealing that it had a “financial incentive” to sell the body parts of aborted babies and discussing their brutal abortion practices.
“These video clips from the subpoenaed congressional footage are just a small part of incredibly disturbing and incriminating undercover conversations that prove Planned Parenthood sells baby parts,” Daleiden <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2024/03/new-videos-planned-parenthood-seeks-1500-per-fetal-liver-financial-incentive-docs-can-pull-off-a-leg-or-two-to-hide-partial-birth-abortions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Planned Parenthood and their allies tried to cover up this footage for eight years because of the brutal facts it reveals about their taxpayer-funded business to kill and sell vulnerable infants.”
The hearing was hosted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), and Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL). The CMP exploded onto the scene in 2015 after it first released footage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-journalists-who-exposed-planned-parenthoods-baby-body-parts-trade-found-guilty?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=non_insiders&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-80WqjFl8ts5THjH_X0GnN5taykN-kZmaZzJvVcIYKJHqzrWikAaeg5NTSzUUZHabcQGKdDhdPLX7vbBL26nFT8jL5tXg&amp;_hsmi=79496569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showing</a> Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of body parts from aborted babies.
The clips played on Tuesday before the lawmakers were recorded years ago, but were previously unable to be released due to court order.
In one clip played during the testimony, a woman identified by CMP as Planned Parenthood New York City’s Medical Director for Abortion Services Dr. Stacy De-Lin is told by a Center for Medical Progress investigator that she “could pay you $1,000, up to $1,500 for a liver.”
De-Lin responded by saying, “Yeah, that’s great,” and, “I think a financial incentive from you guys like, to the people we have to get this approved from, will be very happy about it,” according to the video shared by CMP.
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CMP said that another one of the videos showed then-Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine discussing ways to get around federal law banning partial birth abortions.
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“If I’m seeing that I’m in fear that it’s about to come to the umbilicus [navel], I might ask for a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix and pull off a leg or two, so it’s not PBA [partial-birth abortion],” Schutt-Aine said, according to the CMP video.
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In a different video featuring one of Schutt-Aine’s colleagues, an individual identified by CMP as Planned Parenthood employee Tram Nguyen says that sometimes an arm is ripped off the unborn baby during an abortion. “[O]ther days it’s [the fetus is] like more intact where it’s like maybe only like an arm that’s disarticulated,” she said, the CMP video shows.
Another video showed Planned Parenthood trainer Dr. Uta Landy reading from quotes about people who had been trained to do abortions, according to CMP.
“My coping mechanism is to focus on the baby/fetus. Reverence for something that was once alive and now it’s not,” one person said. Another said, “An eyeball just fell down into my lap, and that is gross,” prompting laughter from the abortionists in the audience.
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Planned Parenthood did not immediately return request for comment.

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Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic, reportedly the first time a president or vice president has visited an abortion facility.
As part of her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, which started in January to promote abortion, Harris will speak to staff at the clinic and may interact with patients, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-will-visit-planned-parenthood-rcna143324?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=65f25daeb68d4b0001acc179&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Harris’ tour began with an event in Wisconsin on January 22, the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
“Extremists across our country continue to wage a full-on attack against hard-won, hard-fought freedoms as they push their radical policies – from banning abortion in all 50 states and criminalizing doctors, to forcing women to travel out of state in order to get the care they need,” Harris said in a statement before the tour launched. “I will continue to fight for our fundamental freedoms while bringing together those throughout America who agree that every woman should have the right to make decisions about her own body – not the government.”
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“Vice President Harris will also hold extremists accountable for proposing a national abortion ban,” a December 19 <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/19/vice-president-kamala-harris-launches-reproductive-freedoms-tour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the White House declared.
The Biden administration has been using the issue of abortion to appeal to voters for the 2024 election. In his State of the Union address, President Biden accused, “Many of you in this Chamber and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom. My God, what freedoms will you take away next?”
“Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women in America,” Biden continued, bragging, “They found out though when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again, in 2024. If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again! “
Biden implied restoring Roe was a step in the right direction, saying, “America cannot go back. I am here tonight to show the way forward.”
After Roe was overturned, many state laws protecting unborn life went into effect in Republican-led states however leftist activists have pushed mail-order abortion pills and many corporations have decided to fund travel for their employees to go out of state for abortions.
“In the first 10 months of 2023, there were an estimated 878,000 abortions in the formal US health care system, 94% as many abortions as were provided in 2020 (930,000),” the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2024/number-abortions-united-states-likely-be-higher-2023-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in January. “Approximately 88,000 abortions have been provided in the formal health care system per month so far in 2023, so with two months of data yet to be published, it is very likely that the total number of abortions provided in 2023 will substantially exceed 2020 numbers.”

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a lawsuit against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood</a> on Thursday, accusing the organization of trafficking young girls for out-of-state abortions. 
The announcement of the suit against Planned Parenthood Great Plains comes after Project Veritas released a <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/planned-parenthood-part-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of Planned Parenthood workers appearing to say that they would help a young girl get an abortion in Kansas without her parent’s knowledge. 
“This is the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in the State of Missouri. What they conceal and conspire to do in the dark of night has now been uncovered. I am filing suit to ensure it never happens again,” Bailey said in a statement. “As a father who held my daughter in my arms for the single hour of her life before she died, I know firsthand how important it is to protect life. Our children are the future. It is time to eradicate Planned Parenthood once and for all to end this pattern of abhorrent, unethical, and illegal behavior.”
The suit references a November 2023 undercover video from Project Veritas where a man posing as the uncle of a 13-year-old girl asks several Planned Parenthood employees how to get an abortion for his niece. The Planned Parenthood workers appeared willing to help, saying that Planned Parenthood in Kansas could pick up a girl and take her for an abortion. 
The workers told the Project Veritas investigator that he would need a “bypass” if he was trying get the girl to have an abortion without the parents&#8217; knowledge. One said that a bypass meant “just not letting the parents know.” 
The Planned Parenthood employees also said they could create doctor&#8217;s notes to get the girl out of class even if the school didn’t agree and they could cut off their Planned Parenthood letterhead so it doesn’t “say where she was.” 
“The surreptitiously recorded video revealed that Planned Parenthood removes minors from school using altered doctors’ notes, transports them into Kansas for abortions, and then quickly returns them — all to avoid parents finding out,” the lawsuit says. “Violating the &#8216;deeply rooted&#8217; right of parents and the laws of Missouri, Planned Parenthood is inducing minors into making life-changing — and life-ending — decisions without parental consent.”
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Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouri-planned-parenthood-project-veritas-children-abortions/63-5ff28d22-1653-41c5-941a-8ffb2f528eb1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the suit by attacking Project Veritas and saying that it was innocent of any wrongdoing.
“This is a press release dressed up as legal action from an unelected attorney general. It is based on ‘evidence’ from fraudulent, extreme anti-abortion actors, who claim to be ‘journalists,’” Planned Parenthood of Greater Plains Emily Wales said. “We will continue following state and federal laws and proudly providing Missourians with the compassionate sexual and reproductive care that remains available to them in a state with a total abortion ban.”
Wales, claiming the video is &#8220;heavily doctored and edited,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/missouri-abortion-lawsuit-minors-to-kansas-67ef30820213fc6cff8857ba68b8fe00">denied</a> that Planned Parenthood provides transportation for patients, the Associated Press reported. She also said that Kansas requires minors to either obtain parental consent or an order from a judge to get an abortion.
In Missouri, all abortion is effectively prohibited, though nearby states like Kansas and Illinois have legal abortion. Pills for medication abortions <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/13/us/abortion-pill-order-online-mifepristone.html#:~:text=There%20is%20less%20ambiguity%20for,But%20enforcement%20remains%20rare." target="_blank" rel="noopener">are</a> also being shipped into the state from outside activist groups.

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The inspector general for the Department of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-and-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health and Human Services</a> (HHS) opened up an investigation into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pittsburgh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pittsburgh</a> after it was accused of illegally harvesting fetal tissue from aborted babies for experimentation, according to newly released emails. 
The documents were obtained as part of a public records request from Judicial Watch and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the organization that released footage in 2015 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-journalists-who-exposed-planned-parenthoods-baby-body-parts-trade-found-guilty?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=non_insiders&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-80WqjFl8ts5THjH_X0GnN5taykN-kZmaZzJvVcIYKJHqzrWikAaeg5NTSzUUZHabcQGKdDhdPLX7vbBL26nFT8jL5tXg&amp;_hsmi=79496569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showing</a> Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of body parts from aborted babies. The <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/JW-v-HHS-Univ-Pitt-docs-03045.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new emails</a> show university officials confirming in November 2021 that they had been subpoenaed by the HHS Office of Inspector General agent.
“The University of Pittsburgh has been a center for some of the most barbaric experiments, government funded experiments, on the body parts of late-term aborted babies,” CMP President David Daleiden told The Daily Wire. “We now have the first confirmation with these FOIA documents that this is all subject of a formal federal law enforcement investigation of the OIG [Office of Inspector General].”
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In 2019, the CMP first reported on the gruesome experiments conducted at Pitt. These experiments <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-facilitated-gruesome-taxpayer-funded-experiments-with-aborted-fetuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> scalping five-month-old fetuses in order to stitch their scalps and back skin onto lab rats and transporting fetal kidneys to other researchers.
According to the emails, Pitt’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Research Dr. Rob Rutenba acknowledged the existence of a federal probe into the school in response to an email from NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Dr. Michael Lauer requesting information on the fetal tissue projects at the university. 
“With regard to your request for documentation/information, please be aware that we received a subpoena from HHS OIG requesting similar documentation on October 28, 2021,” Rutenba wrote on Friday, November 2021. “We are happy to provide the requested information to both you and the HHS OIG, however, [redacted] instructed us not to provide the documentation you have requested information until he has had the opportunity to speak with you.”
The status of the HHS OIG investigation is not known. “We don’t know the results of the OIG investigation yet. We don’t know if the OIG has further referred that investigation to the FBI or the Department of Justice. The University of Pittsburgh has been completely in damage control mode,” Daleiden said. 
Agents with the HHS OIG have the ability to make arrests, conduct surveillance, serve search warrants, and seize evidence. The HHS OIG office told The Daily Wire that they could “neither confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation, should there be any.”
The scrutiny on Pitt focuses on its GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) program, which is believed to have run from 2016-2021. Daleiden describes the program as “an NIH-sponsored program for harvesting and distributing late-term aborted fetal kidneys and other body parts to other NIH-funded projects across the country.” 
In response to the reports and allegations of illegal activities, Pitt hired an “outside law firm” to look at its fetal tissue experiment program. The report from the firm claimed that Pitt was in compliance with state and federal law and the university has denied any wrongdoing.
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“As we have stated in the past: Fetal tissue research plays a critical role in advancing life-saving discoveries. We remain committed to maintaining robust internal controls and to extending our record of compliance at the state and federal levels, and we take these responsibilities seriously,” a Pitt spokesman <a href="https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/report-fetal-tissue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in January 2022. 
Republicans have <a href="https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-bicameral-members-want-immediate-check-on-claims-of-fetal-tissue-research-at-university-of-pittsburgh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a> to push for a review of Pitt’s activities and have demanded an audit from the HHS inspector general. 
“I think that the fact that a federal law enforcement agency like OIG thought that the information and allegations about the grant application were serious enough to open an investigation shows that the issue of fetal trafficking and selling aborted baby parts is not going away for the abortion industry,” Daleiden said. 
The University of Pittsburgh did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy organizations received nearly $2 billion in federal funding over a three year span, according to a new government report.
The Government Accountability Office disclosed in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/12/GAO-Report-on-Federal-Abortion-Funding-for-FY2019-%E2%80%93-FY2021.pdf">Tuesday report</a> that $1.89 billion in federal dollars was allocated to multiple different pro-abortion organizations, including those that perform abortion, over the three year period from 2019 to 2021. Planned Parenthood received the overwhelming bulk of the sum, a whopping $1.78 billion, during the three-year period, all while it performed 1.11 million abortions.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2022/1/blackburn-hartzler-smith-colleagues-request-gao-report-on-federal-funding-for-abortion-advocacy-groups">requested</a> in January 2022 that GAO produce this report, told The Daily Wire that the staggering amount of funding should shock Americans, whether they support abortion or not.
&#8220;We regularly hear from people — whether they&#8217;re pro-choice or pro-abortion — they don&#8217;t think taxpayer dollars should be used for this,&#8221; Blackburn said in a Monday interview. &#8220;You&#8217;re looking at close to 600 million federal dollars that are going into abortion every single year.&#8221;
The revelations come as poll numbers suggest that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to federal funding of abortion. Three out of five Americans said they are opposed to using tax dollars to pay for a woman’s abortion, according to a <a href="https://www.kofc.org/en/resources/communications/polls/2023-kofc-marist-poll-presentation.pdf">January 2023 Marist poll</a>.
While the <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12167">Hyde Amendment</a> bars the use of federal funds for most abortions, it does not prevent organizations like Planned Parenthood, America&#8217;s largest provider of abortions, from receiving those funds if they are earmarked for other purposes.
The report exhibits the limits of executive action when it comes to separating the abortion industry from federal dollars. The Trump administration attempted to end federal funding of pro-abortion organizations in 2017 by establishing the <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/guidance/document/trump-administration-actions-protect-life-and-conscience">Protect Life Rule</a>, which mandated that all organizations receiving funding through Title X grants <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/grant-programs/title-x-service-grants">intended to assist family planning services</a> must agree to refrain from offering referrals for abortions, and must also maintain both physical and financial separation from abortion providers.
Planned Parenthood refused to comply with the new rule and forfeited the Title X funding, which was the abortion group&#8217;s second largest source of federal funding behind Medicaid reimbursements. The GAO report found that Planned Parenthood’s refusal “led almost all affiliates to discontinue using family planning grants under Title X” in both 2020 and 2021. The Biden administration, however, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/us/politics/abortion-biden-trump.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9COur%20nation%27s%20family%20planning%20clinics,health%20and%20human%20services%20secretary">rescinded</a> the Trump administration’s Protect Life Rule in 2021.
In addition to the federal dollars that went to Planned Parenthood, another $2.03 million went to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The international organization <a href="https://www.ippf.org/about-us">operates</a> in 146 different countries and works alongside 150 <a href="https://www.ippf.org/about-us/member-associations">member associations</a>. The IPPF <a href="https://www.ippf.org/resource/2022-annual-performance-report">brags</a> that in 2022 alone, it provided 5 million “abortion services,” an increase of 11% since 2021. The figure includes 14,000 chemical abortions that were facilitated by the federation.
MSI Reproductive Choices, an organization that works in 37 countries and <a href="http://www.msichoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/msi-annual-report-2021.pdf">bragged</a> in 2021 that “4 million clients accessed an abortion or post-abortion care with MSI,” received $1.35 million in taxpayer funds. MSI states that by 2030, it hopes to provide a third of abortions in the areas it operates. The organization laid out this goal in a <a href="https://www.msichoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/msi-2030-external-strategy-11112020.pdf">strategy document</a> that says MSI intends to ensure “1 in 3 women who have an abortion will access it from a safe MSI or MSI-supported product or service.”
The report found that another $107.74 million went to “four domestic regional organizations,” which remained unnamed and were identified only as “privately-owned providers of health related services within various regions of the United States.” The report also noted that the groups “operated in a total of eight states during the time frame of this study” and that “the services they provide include sexual and reproductive health-related service.”
The report found that a large chunk of the money sent to Planned Parenthood was &#8220;illegally&#8221; taken from the Paycheck Protection Program, which was intended for small businesses to keep people employed as the government responded to the COVID pandemic.
&#8220;While small businesses struggled to make ends meet during the pandemic, Planned Parenthood illegally siphoned over $90 million from the Paycheck Protection Program,” Blackburn said, noting that the program was “specifically designed to help our mom and pop shops keep their doors open.”
Blackburn was joined by 141 other Republicans in Congress in January 2022 when she requested that the GAO produce a report detailing federal funding of abortion advocacy organizations.

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New state abortion bans are resulting in tens of thousands more babies being born per year, a new analysis of the data shows.
About 32,000 more babies were born per year due to state abortion bans enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned, <a href="https://docs.iza.org/dp16608.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to an analysis published Friday by the Institute of Labor Economics. Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, was overturned in June last year.
Births have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> in every state that has an abortion ban, the analysis found, using birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stretching from 2005 to June.
Between a fifth and a fourth of women living in the 14 states with abortion bans who otherwise may have had an abortion did not get one, data from the first six months of this year shows.
An average of 2.3% more babies were born in states with abortion bans compared to states without bans, the analysis shows.
Nationwide however, the number of legal abortions has remained about the same, even increased slightly, since the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision last year. This is likely due to new clinics opening in states without bans and more ways to order abortion pills online.
The groups that saw the biggest increase in births were women in their 20s, black women, and Hispanic women. These groups tend to be less able to afford to travel out of state for an abortion, the researchers said, and they are more likely to seek abortions.
Driving distances to abortion clinics had a significant effect — the greater the increase in the driving distance, the bigger the spike in the birth rate.
Texas saw a 5.1% spike compared to states that had similar birth trends but did not pass an abortion ban. The average increase in driving distance to the nearest abortion clinic was 453 miles after Texas passed its ban.
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Mississippi had a 4.4% increase in births, and the driving distance there increased by an average of 240 miles.
Abortion pills ordered online also appeared to drive down the birth rate in certain states with bans. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana had big increases in orders for abortion pills from Aid Access, a major overseas abortion pill provider. Researchers had expected the birth rate to jump higher than it did in those states.
“The insinuation of a lot of coverage of such data points is that it’s a bad thing for there to be more children welcomed in states with better laws than in states that fast-track abortion,” Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times.
“It’s a triumph that pro-life policies result in lives saved,” she said.

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Google&#8217;s search results consistently favor pro-abortion sources over pro-life ones, according to a <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/gabriela-pariseau/2023/10/31/mrc-free-speech-america-research-censortrack-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new study</a> that tested the search engine giant against its competitors.
A new report by researchers at the Media Research Center&#8217;s Free Speech America says that a pro-abortion bias exists across Google’s search engine, its AI chatbot Bard, Google Ads, and company policies. Researchers at the MRC compared Google results to those of Bing and DuckDuckGo, saying that results from Google tilted in favor of a pro-abortion perspective.
During one test, researchers searched for the word “pregnancy” on all three search engines the day before the 50th Annual March for Life. According to the researchers, Bing and DuckDuckGo had more neutral results, while on Google, the top link produced was to a <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/pregnancy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page on Planned Parenthood</a>, the country&#8217;s leading advocates for abortion. This search result was also confirmed on Friday by The Daily Wire — on both Bing and DuckDuckGo, the top search result for &#8220;pregnancy&#8221; was a link to the same <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/symptoms-of-pregnancy/art-20043853" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayo Clinic page</a>.
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A spokesperson for Google told The Daily Wire that claims of bias were without merit. &#8220;There’s no validity to these allegations of bias. We don’t manipulate search results, modify our products or enforce our policies in any way to promote or disadvantage any particular ideology or viewpoint. For the search queries that were studied, Google shows a range of sources and perspectives, contrary to the misleading suggestions of the report,&#8221; a spokesperson said.
Researchers also said that pro-life information on how many women regret having abortions was relegated to the bottom of the page when looking for answers from Google on that topic.
“When MRC researchers searched Google for the terms ‘study women did not regret having baby’ on October 20, Google buried the pro-life results at the bottom of the page as the twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh results,” the study, written by Gabriela Pariseau, said.
Information that was at the top of the page, according to the study, directed searchers to click on an article from the University of San Francisco that was a flawed analysis of the pro-abortion “Turnaway Study” that said most women who had abortions said it was the “right decision.”
“The article made no mention at all of the 96 percent of women who did not regret having their baby,” Pariseau said.
Google disputed the search results cited in the report, saying that their results were similar to other search engines.
In another test, MRC researchers asked Bard, Google’s artificial intelligence tool, about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. According to the report, Bard did not detail the pro-life argument that abortion ends the life of an unborn child.
&#8220;Google is in lock-step with their leftist allies and the legacy media,” MRC President Brent Bozell said in a statement. “Google&#8217;s algorithm continues to elevate research favorable to the pro-aborts while suppressing good news for the pro-life movement.&#8221;
The study also pointed to Google’s <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/google-live-action-pro-life-groups-ads-unproven-medical-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous decision</a> to ban abortion pill reversal ads <a href="https://censortrack.org/case/live-action-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> pro-life organization Live Action and conservative news organization LifeSiteNews.
“We do not permit ads with unproven medical claims and medical experts have raised serious concerns about abortion pill reversal. Beyond protecting users from medical harm, our ads policies do not distinguish between promoting pro-choice and pro-life messages. Live Action is currently running ads on our platform and they continue to be eligible to promote their perspectives and services as long as the ads do not violate our policies,&#8221; a Google spokesperson said.
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Internal policies at the company also indicate the company’s pro-abortion stances. In the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Google executives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-petition-for-more-abortion-benefits-slam-company-for-use-of-gendered-language" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the company would cover out-of-state abortions and allow employees to “apply for relocation without justification.”
Employees for Google also have a history of donating to Democrat candidates and Planned Parenthood, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/20/google-charitable-donations-set-record/95636922/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raising</a> nearly $800,000 for the abortion provider back in 2016.
&#8220;Whether it’s censoring key Senate races, pro-free speech platforms, COVID-19 wrongspeak or former President of the United States Donald Trump, Google&#8217;s leftist bent is clear,&#8221; said MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris. &#8220;So it should come as little surprise that Google&#8217;s pro-abortion agenda is trumpeted loud and clear also. ‘By their fruit, you shall know them.’ In Google&#8217;s case, the fruit is obvious: evil.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood</a> is reportedly helping trans-identifying teenagers obtain cross-sex hormones after just a 30 minute consultation.
Planned Parenthood prescribes cross-sex hormones to adults 18 and up without an official gender dysphoria diagnosis or a letter from a therapist, just a brief consultation with usually a nurse practitioner about the hormones&#8217; effects, the Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/planned-parenthood-is-helping-teenagers-transition-after-a-30-minute-consult-parents-and-doctors-are-sounding-the-alarm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In one case, Planned Parenthood prescribed estrogen to a special needs 18-year-old while his parents were out of town in July, the outlet reported.
The New Jersey teen, who was diagnosed with ADHD with autistic traits at age four, was consistently interested in guns, power tools, and metalworking. In December though, he announced that he was a transgender woman, just a few months after his autistic best friend made the same announcement.
He arrived at his local Planned Parenthood at 11 a.m., and by 11:39, his estrogen prescription was on its way, according to records reviewed by the Free Beacon.
Cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. They can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
As far back as last fall, the nation’s largest abortion provider was offering gender transition services at hundreds of clinics across the country. At least 344 Planned Parenthood clinics in 41 states across the country <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthoods-foray-into-child-gender-transitions-featuring-your-tax-dollars">were offering</a> gender transition services as of a year ago, according to its website. Many clinics <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-care/our-services/transgender-hormone-therapy">offered</a> cross-sex hormones for minors, and some provided puberty blockers.
Since then however, several states have cracked down on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children, so some Planned Parenthood locations may no longer be offering those services for minors.
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Planned Parenthood also encourages trans-identifying people to ask for hormones at their local clinic, even if the clinic doesn’t offer them yet.
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&#8220;If your closest Planned Parenthood health center doesn’t offer gender-affirming hormone treatments, and you want them to, you can tell them,&#8221; Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/transgender/what-do-i-need-know-about-trans-health-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> on its website.
Also, because Planned Parenthood and its affiliates get more than half a billion dollars in government funding every year, their gender transition services represent Americans’ tax dollars at work.
Planned Parenthood&#8217;s foray into gender transition services is also a significant departure from the organization&#8217;s core mission of “family planning.”
Even some of the most prominent figures supporting gender transition services have criticized Planned Parenthood&#8217;s process for doling out hormones.
&#8220;I have always been a very strong supporter of Planned Parenthood and am pro-choice,&#8221; <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/planned-parenthood-is-helping-teenagers-transition-after-a-30-minute-consult-parents-and-doctors-are-sounding-the-alarm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Laura Edwards-Leeper, one of the founders of the country&#8217;s first pediatric gender clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital.
&#8220;But they have taken on something that they are not equipped to handle,&#8221; Edwards-Leeper said.
Erica Anderson, who is trans-identifying and a former president of the U.S. Professional Association for Transgender Health, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/planned-parenthood-is-helping-teenagers-transition-after-a-30-minute-consult-parents-and-doctors-are-sounding-the-alarm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;I’ve had patients desperate to get hormones where I’ve been the voice of caution,&#8221; and &#8220;In some cases, they say, ‘I’ll just go to Planned Parenthood when I’m 18.’ Usually I can dissuade them but sometimes I can’t.&#8221;
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.
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