Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced Tuesday that they plan on removing founder Margaret Sanger&#8217;s name from a key clinic after acknowledging Sanger&#8217;s legacy of supporting eugenics and racism and as part of an effort to reckon with the organization&#8217;s history.
Pro-life groups have long pointed out that Sanger&#8217;s purpose in founding Planned Parenthood was to encourage communities of color and other &#8220;<a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-sprinkle-010420-20200104-opc3c76o4na47mtdtun4nvqw3y-story.html">unfit&#8221; and &#8220;feeble-minded&#8221; groups</a> to practice strict birth control &#8212; at least according to Sanger&#8217;s own writings, which are widely available.
&#8220;Today eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough avenue in the solution of racial, political, and social problems,&#8221; <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-sprinkle-010420-20200104-opc3c76o4na47mtdtun4nvqw3y-story.html">Sanger wrote in 1921, </a>for example.
Previously, though, the abortion provider has brushed off concerns about Sanger&#8217;s beliefs as &#8220;complicated,&#8221; and described her own letters, which refer to using abortion “to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective,&#8221; as &#8220;<a href="https://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/">inartfully written</a>.&#8221; Supporters insist that Sanger&#8217;s ultimate goal was to empower women to control their own fertility &#8212; a goal which, for them, all but erases her more unsavory beliefs.
But last month, following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis police department, employees of Planned Parenthood Greater New York (PPGNY) published an open letter accusing the corporation&#8217;s hierarchy of gross mismanagement, and pointing out Sanger&#8217;s flaws as a key element of the group&#8217;s ongoing issues with &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221;
&#8220;Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist, white woman,&#8221; <a href="https://saveppgny.wordpress.com/">the letter noted</a>. &#8220;That is a part of history that cannot be changed. While efforts have been made to undo some of the harm from institutional racism, many of these issues have worsened.&#8221;
Tuesday, in response, PPGNY announced that they would take the extreme step of removing Sanger&#8217;s name from their clinic, now previously known as the &#8220;Margaret Sanger Center.&#8221;
“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” PPGNY&#8217;s affiliate board chairwoman announced in a statement, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html">per The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;The group is also talking to city leaders about replacing Ms. Sanger’s name on a street sign that has hung near its offices on Bleecker Street for more than two decades,&#8221; the outlet also noted.
Of course, the decision to scrub Sanger&#8217;s name applies only to a single Planned Parenthood affiliate, albeit one of the nation&#8217;s largest. National Planned Parenthood still lauds Sanger&#8217;s work. Until 2015, the organization gave out an annual award bearing Sanger&#8217;s name, and their national website features <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/9214/7612/8734/Sanger_Fact_Sheet_Oct_2016.pdf">a glowing &#8220;fact sheet</a>&#8221; about its founder, which recasts Sanger&#8217;s decision to initially target communities of color for reproductive services as a civil rights victory.
The Smithsonian&#8217;s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., also features a bronze bust of Sanger.

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Planned Parenthood NY Will Remove Margaret Sangers Name From Clinic Over ‘Harmful Connections’ To Racism, Eugenics

Margaret Sanger

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After announcing his interest in a 2020 presidential run, rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West came out swinging against abortion, specifically singling out Planned Parenthood, which he suggested was targeting black women and killing black babies.
“Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-praises-trump-hammers-planned-parenthood-likens-covid-vaccine-to-mark-of-the-beast">he said</a>.
In response, Planned Parenthood — whose founder promoted <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-sprinkle-010420-20200104-opc3c76o4na47mtdtun4nvqw3y-story.html">racist ideas</a> and openly <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=238946.xml">described</a> her movement as &#8220;practically identical in ideal, with the final aims of Eugenics&#8221; — tapped Nia Martin-Robinson, the organization&#8217;s Director of Black Leadership and Engagement, to rebuke the rapper&#8217;s forceful statement.
&#8220;Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have the best medical care available,&#8221; Martin-Robinson said. &#8220;Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing.&#8221;
Martin-Robinson went on to say that the greatest threat to the black community is lack of access to quality health care.
&#8220;The real threat to Black communities&#8217; safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence, and the criminalization of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;At Planned Parenthood, we trust and we stand with Black women who have, and continue to lead the charge when it comes to health, rights, and bodily autonomy of those in their communities.&#8221;
Over at <a href="https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/kanye-wests-anti-planned-parenthood-conspiracy-theory">Bustle</a>, Jake Viswanath even went as far as to argue that pro-lifers have been tied to white supremacy, even though leaders of the racist Alt-Right movement <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/alt-right-abortion-richard-spencer-upholds-margaret-sanger-eugenicist-legacy/">have expressed support for abortion</a>, arguing that it rids the country of undesirables.
&#8220;There has been more ties between white supremacy and pro-life activism in recent years, like when anti-abortion group New Wave Feminists was forced to oust their former leader Kristen Walker Hatten in 2018 after she shared white supremacist messages on Twitter and admitted that she was &#8216;racist by today&#8217;s standards.&#8217; Basically, if Planned Parenthood clinics were planted by anyone, it definitely wasn&#8217;t by white supremacists,&#8221; argued Viswanath.
In a 2017 piece for <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/alt-right-abortion-richard-spencer-upholds-margaret-sanger-eugenicist-legacy/">National Review</a> titled &#8220;The Alt-Right Carries On Margaret Sanger&#8217;s Legacy Of Eugenics,&#8221; Elliott Kaufman presents a far different take on the relationship between white supremacists and abortion:
<blockquote>Richard Spencer, the keynote speaker in Charlottesville and the central figure of the alt-right movement, finds abortion useful. He has explained that abortion will help to bring about his vision of an elite, white America: “The people who are having abortions are generally very often Black or Hispanic or from very poor circumstances.” The people whom Spencer wants to reproduce, he says, “are using abortion when you have a situation like Down Syndrome.” It is only “the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics,” he claims, “who use abortion as birth control.”
He has openly mocked conservatives who worry about a “black genocide” or “how [abortion] is destroying black communities.” He knows that an estimated 75 percent of women who have abortions are poor. He knows that black women, receiving an outsize 36 percent of all American abortions, are almost five times as likely to terminate their pregnancies as white women. Nothing could make him happier.</blockquote>
Aylmer Fisher wrote in Spencer&#8217;s Radix Journal: “It is important we not fall prey to the pro-life temptation. The only ones who can’t [avoid an unwanted pregnancy] are the least intelligent and responsible members of society: women who are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, and poor.”
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Officials with the abortion provider Planned Parenthood described cases of infanticide occurring at clinics during abortion procedures, according to Republican Sen. Ben Sasse.
Sasse (R-NE) slammed the abortion franchise on Wednesday after the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an investigative nonprofit that focuses on medical ethics, released edited footage of two top Planned Parenthood officials testifying on practices and incidents inside abortion clinics.
“The truth — as found in these sworn testimonies — is going to catch up to Planned Parenthood and their big business abortion partners. Their admissions have nothing to do with healthcare, but instead are an admission that they’re complicit to the practice of infanticide,” Sasse said in a <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/7/sasse-statement-on-planned-parenthood-infanticide-admission">statement</a>. “This is morally repugnant. It shouldn’t be hard to denounce the practice of infanticide, but Big Abortion practically shouts it from the rooftops. They must held accountable.”
CMP founder David Daleiden <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2020/06/sworn-video-testimony-describes-infanticide-in-fetal-organ-harvesting-and-planned-parenthood-clinics/">released</a> the testimony in question on Tuesday. One clip shows Jon Dunn, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Orange &amp; San Bernardino Counties, testifying that in at least one instance he remembered a fetus born alive during an abortion procedure about two decades ago.
“I know they kept it warm and comfortable for the very brief period that it was alive. I don’t think there was even time to call 911,” Dunn says in the video. “This is something that every obstetrician/gynecologist deals with on rare occasion … It is their medical judgment what to do in that circumstance.”
Dunn’s testimony was taken and unsealed as part of a civil suit filed by Planned Parenthood against CMP over Daleiden’s claim that the abortion network and Advanced Biosciences Resources, which works with Planned Parenthood to procure fetal body parts, profited off infanticide, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/planned-parenthood-tissue-procurer-abortion-clinic-testimony">Fox News</a>.
Daleiden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-unsealed-video-shows-planned-parenthood-execs-under-oath-discussing-baby-body-parts-sales">released</a> a similar video of testimonies at the end of May, saying at the time, “The time has come for federal consequences for Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood lied to the public and to Congress, but now there is no longer any reasonable doubt that Planned Parenthood sold fetal body parts, commodifying living children in the womb and treating pregnant women like a cash crop.”
CMP and Planned Parenthood have been engaged in court battles for several years. In 2016, the abortion clinic network <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/planned-parenthood-lawsuit-secret-videos.html">sued</a> CMP following the release of a series of videos in which Daleiden went undercover to interview a series of Planned Parenthood officials, uncovering what he said is proof that the abortion provider traffics in fetal body parts and sells them to biomedical research facilities for profit. Planned Parenthood denied the charge.
Last year, a jury rejected Daleiden and CMP’s free speech defense, finding them liable for at least $2.2 million in damages to Planned Parenthood. The jury convicted CMP under a 1970 law meant to target organized crime syndicates such as the mafia.
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Ben Sasse: Planned Parenthood Just Admitted To Committing ‘Infanticide’

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Before singer Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom were engaged and pregnant with a child, the famed &#8220;California Girl&#8221; singer says she contemplated suicide following the couple&#8217;s 2017 breakup.
&#8220;My career was on this trajectory when it was going up, up, and up, and then I had the smallest shift, not that huge from an outside perspective. But for me it was seismic,&#8221; Perry told SiriusXM&#8217;s <a title="(opens new window)" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mhN4u0p7CA&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="40">CBC Radio One</a>, referring to her album &#8220;Witness.&#8221;
&#8220;I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby-daddy-to-be, and then I was excited about flying high off the next record,&#8221; Perry continued. &#8220;But the validation did not make me high, and so I just crashed.&#8221;
Perry said the thing that &#8220;saved&#8221; her &#8220;life&#8221; was being able to find &#8220;gratitude,&#8221; following the hurtful breakup.
&#8220;Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life because if I did not find that, I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped,&#8221; the 35-year-old explained. &#8220;But I found the ways to be grateful. If it gets really, really hard I walk around and say, &#8216;I am grateful, I am grateful!&#8217; even though I am in a s*** mood.&#8221;
In March, Perry announced the pregnancy of her baby girl with Bloom.
&#8220;Katy Perry shocked fans this week when the music video for her new single, &#8216;Never Worn White&#8217; showed her rocking a bump,&#8221; <a href="https://www.mother.ly/news/pregnant-celebrities-2020/leighton-meester-adam-brody-are-having-baby-no-2">Motherly</a> reported at the time. The singer captioned the pregnancy post: &#8220;Let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s gonna be a jam packed summer&#8230;.&#8221;
&#8220;OMG, so glad I don&#8217;t have to suck it in anymore, or carry around a big purse,&#8221; she later tweeted.
&#8220;I am excited,&#8221; Perry said on a livestream. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited and happy and it&#8217;s probably the longest secret I&#8217;ve ever had to keep. Not only will I be giving birth, literally, but also figuratively to something you guys have been waiting for. So let&#8217;s just call it a double whammy. It&#8217;s a two-for.&#8221;
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Back in 2016, Perry dropped $10,000 to abortion mill Planned Parenthood and encouraged fans to similarly donate, <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7573554/katy-perry-planned-parenthood-donation-10k-letter-fans">Billboard</a> reported.
&#8220;It&#8217;s time to turn words into action,&#8221; she wrote via social media,  screen-capping the donation.
&#8220;I am making a public donation to Planned Parenthood for the teenage me who made several visits to first a clinic in Santa Barbara and then Los Angeles, CA to educate myself on my sexual health,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;a subject I had little to no information on because of my sheltered upbringing. I had no idea how things worked down there, and had no idea how to make a plan for them.&#8221;
&#8220;Planned Parenthood educated me on my body and my reproductive health, so that I could focus on my dreams and using my voice until I knew the timing was right for me to make a plan to have a family,&#8221; the singer wrote. &#8220;Since then, I have been able to focus wholeheartedly on bringing messages of strength and becoming a voice for others. Without this education, I may have had a different life path.&#8221;
&#8220;I am grateful for and stand in support of Planned Parenthood for giving Katheryn Hudson the knowledge to plan, and for continuing to be a haven for women to learn all options for their future,&#8221; added Perry. &#8220;Now, more than ever, we all need to protect and create safe places for each other. I hope I can help inspire you to make a gift as well, and become a member and an ally.&#8221;
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Katy Perry Opens Up About Contemplating Suicide Before Engagement, Pregnancy

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Since we are on the subject of defunding things in order to protect black lives, it seems someone should make the rather obvious and unavoidable point. While defunding the police is sure to kill many more black people than it saves, defunding Planned Parenthood, and then abolishing abortion entirely, is sure to save many millions of lives while costing none.
Abortion has destroyed over 60 million people in this country since Roe v. Wade. A disproportionate number of the victims are black. Indeed, the black abortion rate is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780732/">nearly 4 times higher</a> than the white abortion rate. In some American cities, the situation has gotten so bad that <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/more-black-babies-aborted-born-new-york-city-alec-torres/">more black babies are aborted than born</a>. According to the pro-abortion <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/report_downloads/us-abortion-patients-table1.pdf">Guttmacher Institute</a>, about 30 percent of the women who obtain abortions outside of hospitals are black. And this despite black women accounting for <a href="https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-of-color-in-the-united-states/">only 13 percent</a> of the women in the United States.
Doing the math, and taking into account the 330,000 abortions Planned Parenthood alone performs every year, it is fair to estimate that Planned Parenthood kills close to 100,000 black people annually. For comparison sake, police killed 1,000 people total last year — white, black, armed, and unarmed. Comparing just the number of unarmed black people killed by both groups, the ratio is 100,000 to 9. And yet police are the greatest threat to black lives?
Those who shout &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; must decide what exactly they mean by this slogan, or if they mean anything at all by it. Do black lives matter inherently or conditionally? When you declare that a black man&#8217;s life &#8220;matters,&#8221; do you mean that it matters all the time, in all situations, at all stages, because he possesses within himself, by his very nature as a human being, inherent value? Or do you mean that his life matters subjectively, under particular circumstances, because it has achieved a certain usefulness and desirability to society?
If you mean the latter, then it is perfectly consistent to support abortion. But the problem is that a life that &#8220;matters&#8221; in this way — subjectively and conditionally — doesn&#8217;t really matter at all, and it can never be a true moral outrage when such a life is taken. BLMC (Black Lives Matter Conditionally) would be, perhaps, an honest slogan, but not a very effective, inspiring, or moral one.
But if you mean that black lives matter inherently — that a black life, like any human life, is in principle and by its nature sacred — then you have made a statement that has certain implications. None of the implications should be frightening to a decent person, but they may be politically inconvenient. If black life matters inherently (and it certainly does), then it matters from the first moment that it comes into existence. Any quality or value that is earned or achieved over time is by definition not inherent. So, a black life that really matters, has always mattered. And that means that a black baby in the womb matters. He matters as much as George Floyd, and he has as much value.
There is no such thing as a pro-abortion Black Lives Matter movement. To be pro-abortion is to reject the premise that life inherently matters. It is to see life as a commodity whose value is dependent on various external factors. If this is all you intend to communicate with the slogan &#8220;black lives matter,&#8221; then you shouldn&#8217;t say it, because you don&#8217;t mean it. But if you do mean it, then welcome to the pro-life movement. We&#8217;ve been waiting for you, and we need your help.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-defund-the-police-is-a-stupid-crazy-idea-that-will-make-everything-worse">‘Defund The Police’ Is A Stupid, Crazy Idea That Will Make Everything Worse</a>

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WALSH: If Black Lives Matter, Defund Planned Parenthood, Not The Police

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On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/fetal-trafficking-under-oath/testimony/">Center for Medical Progress</a> (CMP) released an explosive video that appears to show Planned Parenthood executives admitting that they charged a fee to medical companies for aborted baby body parts directly, despite the taxpayer-funded organization claiming their only &#8220;fees&#8221; were for transportation and other legal services.
David Daleiden, project lead for CMP, alleged in a press release that the video (which can be viewed below) is more confirmation that Planned Parenthood lied to the public and Congress about aborted baby trafficking.
“The time has come for federal consequences for Planned Parenthood,” <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2020/05/planned-parenthood-testimony-on-selling-baby-parts-unsealed-new-videos-released/">Daleiden</a> said in a statement. “Planned Parenthood lied to the public and to Congress, but now there is no longer any reasonable doubt that Planned Parenthood sold fetal body parts, commodifying living children in the womb and treating pregnant women like a cash crop.&#8221;
&#8220;The U.S. Department of Justice must escalate the enforcement of laws against fetal trafficking to the highest level of priority,&#8221; he added.
The video, which is of court records and proceedings, shows emails and contracts, and features testimony from Planned Parenthood executives appearing to discuss the selling of baby body parts at certain corporation affiliates.
Pro-life organization <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/bombshell-planned-parenthood-admits-oath-aborted-parts/">LiveAction</a> argues that the video &#8220;disputes the argument that money received was nothing more than reimbursement for costs sustained by Planned Parenthood. Testimony revealed that payment was only made to Planned Parenthood if StemExpress was able to obtain &#8216;usable&#8217; body parts from one of its abortion centers — meaning Planned Parenthood deceived the public when it claimed it only collected reimbursements for employees’ time and costs.&#8221;
As noted by CMP, &#8220;42 U.S. Code 289g-2 broadly forbids the exchange of valuable consideration for fetal tissue.&#8221;
&#8220;While the law allows for reimbursements of specific costs when donating fetal organs, those reimbursements must meet specific guidelines;&#8221; LiveAction continued, &#8220;they must be fees associated with transportation, processing, and other such costs. Planned Parenthood did none of these things, yet they collected money when they provided StemExpress with marketable body parts.&#8221;
Additionally, while the abortion giant told The New York Times that they &#8220;rebuffed&#8221; a contract to sell aborted baby livers for $750 each and $1600 for liver/thymus pairs, emails and testimony from Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Senior Director of Abortion Access Tram Nguyen appears to reveal that she was looking to &#8220;move forward&#8221; with a deal.
At just one affiliate, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the clinic reportedly took in $25,000 in just three months from deals for aborted baby body parts, invoices showed. Founder and CEO of Planned Parenthood partner Advanced Bioscience Resources, Linda Tracy, was repeatedly told by her lawyer on video not to disclose how much the company was taking in.
Planned Parenthood is currently not charged with any violations of U.S. code and has yet to fall under an investigation over the matter of selling or exchanging fetal tissue.
&#8220;PPMM does over 17,000 abortions a year, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unsealed-invoices-planned-parenthood-daleiden-25k">unsealed invoices</a> show PPMM making $25,000 in just 3 months from StemExpress,&#8221; CMP said. &#8220;When asked how much money an abortion clinic could make per year from selling fetal body parts, the founder and CEO of Planned Parenthood partner Advanced Bioscience Resources, Linda Tracy, was forbidden by her lawyer to answer.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-heres-why-planned-parenthood-booted-lenan-amanda-prestigiacomo">REPORT: Here’s Why Planned Parenthood Booted Leana Wen As President. It’s Unbelievable.</a>
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) called for President Trump to fire the bureaucrats who illegally approved millions of dollars worth of small-business loans for Planned Parenthood clinics.
Sasse issued a strong statement on Wednesday slamming the well-known abortion provider for taking advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans that it is ineligible to receive.
“Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, tried to defraud taxpayers during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,” Sasse said. “The Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to be a lifeline for small businesses, not a slush fund for Big Abortion. The administration needs to reclaim that money and fire the bureaucrats who signed off on this scam.”
Thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received over $80 million dollars in PPP loans. The funds were approved by Congress in March to go to small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, and affiliates of any organization with more than 500 employees are ineligible for such loans. Planned Parenthood has more than 600 employees.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-planned-parenthood-affiliates-improperly-applied-for-80-million-they-got-it-now-the-government-wants-the-money-back">slammed</a> the abortion provider on Tuesday and called for each clinic to immediately return the funds it had received.
“There is no ambiguity in the legislation that passed or public record around its passage that organizations such as Planned Parenthood, whose parent organization has close to half a billion dollars in assets, is not eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program,” Rubio said.
“Those funds must be returned immediately. Furthermore, the SBA should open an investigation into how these loans were made in clear violation of the applicable affiliation rules and if Planned Parenthood, the banks, or staff at the SBA knowingly violated the law, all appropriate legal options should be pursued,” Rubio added.
Officials in the Small Business Administration (SBA), which oversees the PPP, have been reaching out to the funds’ recipients, telling them to return the loan money, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-coronavirus-stimulus-money-ppp-return">Fox News</a>. The SBA is also warning that if any Planned Parenthood employee lied on an application to get approved for the loans, they and their clinic could face criminal and civil penalties.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for a federal investigation into the lending, and for charges to be brought against anyone found to have lied on a PPP loan application.
“The money needs to be recovered and if anybody knowingly falsified applications, they need to be prosecuted,” Hawley said.
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Within the past year, Planned Parenthood has made several decisions that have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthood-commits-45-million-to-democrats-running-in-2020">cost</a> the organization significantly more money than clinics requested in PPP loans. In August, the abortion provider opted to lose more than $60 million in federal funding rather than stop performing abortions.
In January, Planned Parenthood’s political action arm committed $45 million to pro-abortion candidates running for office in 2020, claiming that “the stakes have never been higher” in an election year.
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Sixty million human beings have been slaughtered by abortion since it was legalized in this country. It is no surprise that the supporters of this massacre would lack ethical scruples. Which is why I was disgusted though not surprised by the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right">article</a> in the Daily Beast gloating about a documentary that supposedly shows Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade fame “confessing” on her “deathbed” that her pro-life conversion was all an act that she put on for money. 
Backing up for moment, Norma McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, was the woman at the center of the infamous legal case that resulted in abortion being legalized across the country. It is well known that McCorvey, later in life, had a change of heart and became an outspoken and prominent pro-life activist. This fact has always been a source of heartburn for pro-abortion activists who were quite upset that they couldn’t continue using her to keep abortion legalized after using her to get it legalized in the first place. But it seems that they’ve found a way to manipulate and exploit her again, in death. 
According to The Daily Beast, the upcoming FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe” will show McCorvey shortly before her death in a nursing home in 2017 claiming that her pro-life turn was all an act. Supposedly she “admits” that pro-life operatives paid her to lie and pretend to be pro-life. This supposed revelation has been met with all of the grotesque bragging and football-spiking that you would expect from people who, again, support and applaud the mass butchery of human children. But there is good reason to be extremely skeptical.
McCorvery was an elderly woman hooked up to an oxygen tank in a nursing home when Nick Sweeney, the documentary’s director, showed up to interview her. We should note that Sweeney is a far left radical whose <a href="https://www.nick-sweeney.com/My-Transgender-Kid-Ch-4">previous films</a> include a BBC special celebrating “transgender” children. This is someone with an obvious political agenda talking to an old, dying, and clearly troubled woman. Another figure who apparently features prominently in the film is Reverend Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister who had his own conversion experience several years ago. In his case, he went from being a pro-life activist to a staunch defender of abortion rights. Schenck now says that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to “chaos and pain.” This, to reiterate, is not an objective piece of work dispassionately documenting a woman’s honest confession. This is far left propaganda. The appropriate portions of salt must be taken along with it.
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It is important to realize that McCorvey’s pro-life transition happened over the course of several years. If she was acting, then this was method acting that would put Daniel Day Lewis to shame. Many people who knew McCorvey personally have come forward to say that she spoke passionately about her pro-life convictions even in private. Was that all part of the act? Or are these people in on the conspiracy? Speaking of conspiracies, who are these nefarious pro-lifers who conspired with McCorvey and paid her to pretend to be pro-life for 20 years? I have been in the movement myself for many years and I’m not aware of any smokey backrooms where these kinds of plots are hatched. Maybe I just haven’t been invited. 
In fact, The Daily Beast mentions that McCorvey, as part of her conversion to Catholicism, eventually broke off her romantic relationship with another woman. Her struggle with same sex attraction is something that McCorvey spoke about, as The Daily Beast says, in “anguished interviews.” So was that an act, too? Did this woman dedicate decades of her life to some sort of bizarre conservative satire routine? That’s what you would have to believe in order to take the deathbed confession story at face value. McCorvey would have had to lie about almost everything, to almost everyone, for decades, and all for what? Some money from a non-existent pro-life cabal? I’m sure she could have made much more as a pro-abortion figurehead. Planned Parenthood, Guttmacher Institue, NARAL, NOW — these are organizations with a lot of cash to throw around. Much more than any pro-life organization can offer. If McCorvey was nothing but a mercenary out for a quick buck, she didn’t need to fake a pro-life conversation to earn it. The whole idea is plainly absurd.
So then why did she make this claim? I don’t know. Maybe it’s all true. Maybe Jane Roe was a very dedicated performance artist. Or maybe she was a confused old woman being manipulated by pro-abortion activists. Or maybe some other explanation. Who knows? Of course, in the end, none of this has any effect on the reality of abortion. And that reality is what I said at the top. It is an act of violence against the innocent, and 60 million innocents have died because of it. Whatever Norma McCorvey did or didn’t think, abortion is a hideous evil. And the transparent attempt to exploit an old woman, who is now dead and unavailable for further comment, is also hideously evil. Truly these people will stop at nothing.

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WALSH: Pro-Abortion Doc Claims Prominent Pro-Life Advocate Confessed That She Was ‘Acting.’ There Is Good Reason To Be Skeptical.

According to the federal government, thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates filed for a total of $80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) despite the fact that they weren’t eligible for the loans.
The Planned Parenthood affiliates received the money. Now the federal government wants the money back.
As Fox News&#8217; “Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; reports, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is contacting the Planned Parenthood affiliates to point out affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees cannot receive PPP funds. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-coronavirus-stimulus-money-ppp-return">Fox News</a> noted, “The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PFFA) alone has had more than 600 employees.”
SBA noted that if the Planned Parenthood affiliates made knowingly false statements, criminal or civil sanctions could be imposed, adding, &#8220;PPFA&#8217;s bylaws, a version of which is publicly available, reveal that becoming a PPFA affiliate requires a certification by the PPFA board. Once certified, each Affiliate shall be governed by written bylaws, which conform to PPFA polices.&#8221;
On Tuesday evening, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) stated
<blockquote>There is no ambiguity in the legislation that passed or public record around its passage that organizations such as Planned Parenthood, whose parent organization has close to half a billion dollars in assets, is not eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program. Those funds must be returned immediately. Furthermore, the SBA should open an investigation into how these loans were made in clear violation of the applicable affiliation rules and if Planned Parenthood, the banks, or staff at the SBA knowingly violated the law, all appropriate legal options should be pursued.</blockquote>
Last August, after the Trump administration said it would cut off federal funds from Planned Parenthood if it made abortion referrals, Planned Parenthood’s president and CEO, Laura Meyers, boasted, &#8220;Planned Parenthood is never going to allow the Trump-Pence administration to bully us into withholding critical health information from our patients,&#8221; asserting that the organization would reject federal funds rather than obey the Trump administration’s order.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthood-commits-45-million-to-democrats-running-in-2020">The Daily Wire</a> reported in January:
<blockquote>Abortion provider (and corporate welfare recipient) Planned Parenthood is committing $45 million to helping Democrats get elected in 2020, the group announced Friday, and launching a massive new effort called “We Decide 2020” to help fans of “reproductive choice” win or keep elected office.
The “stakes have never been higher,” Planned Parenthood’s website whines. “More than three-fourths of voters say abortion should remain safe and legal. There is no state in which banning abortion is popular. But anti-abortion politicians continue to try to undermine our rights and our access to reproductive health care, putting the ability of many people to obtain birth control, safe and legal abortion, and accurate sexual education in question — yet again.”
“We decide who our leaders are. We decide our future,” the website for “We Decide 2020” says. “At the ballot box this year, we — not out-of-touch politicians — decide what we do with our own bodies.”</blockquote>
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Report: Planned Parenthood Affiliates Improperly Applied For $80 Million. They Got It. Now The Government Wants The Money Back.

As both lives and livelihoods are lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, the popular game show &#8220;The Price Is Right&#8221; donated nearly $100,000 for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood in the latest primetime special “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/tv" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Price is Right At Night.</a>”
&#8220;The longest-running game show in television history aired Monday evening with regular host Drew Carey joined by Emmy-winning host of &#8216;RuPaul’s Drag Race,&#8217; RuPaul,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/price-is-right-planned-parenthood-donation-debate">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The famous drag queen was on hand to help raise money for charity, with the show promising to match all the contestants&#8217; prize winnings with a donation to Planned Parenthood.&#8221;
&#8220;Contestants won big during the special, totaling $97,266 in prizes,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;This meant that the same dollar amount is now going to the organization as a charitable donation.&#8221;
RuPaul has long been an outspoken supporter of Planned Parenthood. In 2017, he even told <a href="https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/q-and-a/a25674/rupaul-interview-drag-race-season-nine/">Marie Claire</a> magazine that his mother used to work there.
&#8220;Women in our culture have been so marginalized and so really beaten down. We live in a masculine-dominated culture,&#8221; he said. &#8220;How dare some man tell a woman what to do with her body. That is outrageous! Outrageous. As a human, that is a big issue for me that really strikes a chord. My mother, she had never really had a job before. Planned Parenthood represented so much freedom for us. For me to watch her blossom into a working woman and self-sufficient after this sort of system of being married to a man and staying home, after that façade fell apart, she built herself back up. In my heart, it represents so much strength, and I think it&#8217;s a very important organization.&#8221;
As noted by Fox News, people on social media were largely upset that &#8220;The Price is Right&#8221; waded into such polarizing political waters.
&#8220;I went to watch the price is rights night time special with RuPaul&#8230;but&#8230;.his charity was planned parenthood. They lost this viewer. #TRUMP2020,&#8221; said on Twitter user.
&#8220;The Price is Right at Night is raising money for the &#8216;charity&#8217; Planned Parenthood. Are you kidding me??? Wow&#8230; #whatisthisworldcomingto,&#8221; said another user.
&#8220;Tell me I’m wrong but The Price is Right is a disgrace.  They raised $97,000+ for Planned Parenthood with their evening show tonight.  How many lives will be lost because if this?  They celebrate the deaths,&#8221; said another.
Abortion advocates <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-op-ed-covid-19-abortion-restrictions-are-a-public-health-crisis">have been stressing</a> the importance of the grisly practice since the outset of the pandemic, arguing that certain states have used the lockdown as a vehicle to enact a post-Roe v. Wade society.
“Abortion is an essential component of comprehensive health care. It is also a time-sensitive service for which a delay of several weeks, or in some cases days, may increase the risks or potentially make it completely inaccessible,” the New York Times Editorial Board argued in March. “The consequences of being unable to obtain an abortion profoundly impact a person’s life, health and well-being.”
The historic $2 trillion stimulus bill passed by Congress provided no relief funds for abortion providers. At the time, Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, denounced President Donald Trump and the GOP for not allowing abortion clinics to benefit from the package.
“It has become shamefully clear that not even a global pandemic will stop the Trump administration or Republican Congressional leaders from attacking access to reproductive care,” said McGill Johnson in a <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/senate-covid-19-response-package-leaves-much-to-be-done-for-our-families-and-public-health-response">statement</a>. “Our leaders should be working to support the nation’s full network of safety-net health care providers during these uncertain times. Instead, the Senate bill targets Planned Parenthood and expands the harmful and discriminatory Hyde amendment, putting up even more barriers to care for women, people with low incomes, and communities of color.”
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There was much consternation and outrage when President Trump suspended funding to the World Health Organization last week. Outrage aside, WHO clearly deserves to lose funding just on the basis of the past two months alone. This is a health organization that has addressed a global pandemic by getting nearly everything wrong every step of the way. WHO originally covered for China and <a href="https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/the-world-health-organization-bows-china">downplayed</a> the threat posed by COVID-19, then reversed itself and called for draconian lockdowns, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52386386">insisting</a> that easing them could cause the virus to &#8220;reignite,&#8221;  and then seemingly reversed itself again by putting Sweden forward as a &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/who-lauds-sweden-as-model-for-resisting-coronavirus-lockdown/">model</a>&#8221; for battling the epidemic. I&#8217;m not sure that this performance is quite worth the $400 million in funding that we had been forking out.
But the case against WHO goes well beyond its stumbling response to the coronavirus. For many years, WHO has been a leading advocate for sexualizing and grooming children with <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/24/world-health-organizations-history-of-promoting-radical-sex-ed/">radical</a> &#8220;sex ed&#8221; courses. The Federalist has some details:
<blockquote>On the WHO’s official <a href="https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/about_us/hrp/partners/en/">website</a>, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is listed as one of the WHO’s major partners. Planned Parenthood is one of the largest world abortion providers. Additionally, the names and logos of top-tier UN agencies, including the WHO, all appear on the front cover of UNESCO’S “International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education” published in January 2018. This <a href="https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/technical-guidance-sexuality-education/en/">document</a> — posted on the WHO website — is laced with references to childhood sexuality, including these statements:</blockquote>
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It gets much worse. As Summit News <a href="https://summit.news/2020/04/29/who-guidelines-encourage-children-younger-than-4-be-taught-masturbation-and-gender-identity/">reports</a>, the World Health Organization&#8217;s Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe: A framework for policymakers, educational and health authorities and specialists&#8221; provides a framework for sexual education, and the guidelines for even the youngest age groups are fairly shocking. The <a href="https://www.bzga-whocc.de/fileadmin/user_upload/WHO_BZgA_Standards_English.pdf">document</a> promotes a &#8220;holistic approach&#8221; that empowers children to become &#8220;more empowered in order to live out their sexuality and their partnerships in a fulfilling and responsible manner.&#8221; The true horror of this approach becomes clear when you realize that they want children as young as four to be &#8220;empowered&#8221; in this way.
An educational matrix within the document provides specific guidelines for different age groups. Children from ages 0-4, we&#8217;re told, should be &#8220;given information&#8221; about the &#8220;discovery of own body and own genitals&#8221; and &#8220;enjoyment and pleasure when touching one’s own body, early childhood masturbation.&#8221; They are also supposed to be informed of their &#8220;right to explore gender identities.&#8221; Children between 4-6 are supposed to be informed about the wonders of masturbation and genital exploration as well, with the added wrinkle that homosexual relationships are supposed to be introduced.
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The guidelines get more graphic as you move into the older age brackets. About kids between the ages of 16 and 18, we are told: &#8220;The sexual career of young people usually proceeds as follows: kissing, touching and caressing with clothes on, naked petting, sexual intercourse (heterosexuals) and, finally, oral sex and sometimes anal sex.&#8221; The phrase &#8220;sexual career of young people,&#8221; coming from a giant bureaucratic organization, should severely creep you out. But then all of this &#8212; indeed, the very idea of government schools teaching sex ed &#8212; should creep you out.
It&#8217;s inevitable that government sex education will take a sharp left turn into this sort of grotesquery. That&#8217;s because every statement about sex is wrapped in the moral and philosophical beliefs of whoever is making it. It&#8217;s one thing to teach about human anatomy or the biological facts of human reproduction, but once you veer into lessons on the relative merits and proper or improper contexts for specific sexual acts and behaviors, you&#8217;ve entered a realm that will always be more ideological than scientific. It is the opinion of the degenerates at WHO that four-year-olds ought to be masturbating. Children at school don&#8217;t need to hear anyone&#8217;s opinions about sex &#8212; especially not that opinion. But that&#8217;s what sex ed always comes down to: opinions. And if the curriculum is developed and taught by hedonistic perverts, the children will be taught hedonistic and perverse opinions. There is no way around it.
The best way to stop these outrageously inappropriate and not-so-vaguely pedophilic sex ed courses is to stop all sex ed courses. Let the kids learn about the science of sex in science class. All of the rest of it should fall to parents to handle. And, no, this is not a veiled sales pitch for &#8220;abstinence education.&#8221; I don&#8217;t want government employees teaching my kids how not to have sex anymore than I want them teaching him how to have it. The case for abstaining until marriage is mostly moral, and I don&#8217;t think the classroom is the right place for that sort of instruction, nor do I trust the average school teacher to make the moral case against premarital sex effectively. All of this, again, should go to the parents. All the teacher needs to do is stick to the biological basics, though frankly I&#8217;m not sure we can trust them to handle even that anymore.

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Womens groups that came out in force to support Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in leveling her unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, are nowhere to be seen now that a sexual assault allegation has been leveled at former Vice President &#8212; and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee &#8212; Joe Biden.
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-have-womens-groups-gone-dead-silent-on-biden-assault-accusation">The Daily Beast</a> attempted to contact 10 women&#8217;s rights organizations, including Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Emily&#8217;s List, the National Organization for Women, and others to get their comments on Tara Reade&#8217;s claim that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she worked as an aide in his Senate office in the early 1990s. Reade made the claim several years ago and repeated it on a progressive podcast earlier in April.
Reade has little to prove her allegations, but does have some evidence that she gave contemporaneous accounts of the attack to her brother, coworker, and neighbor, all of whom seem to substantiate Reade&#8217;s story. Reade&#8217;s mother, who has since passed away, cannot directly corroborate Reade&#8217;s claims, but in a newly resurfaced tape from the mid-1990s, a woman, believed to be Reade&#8217;s mother, can be heard asking a &#8220;Larry King Live&#8221; panel how to handle a powerful man in Washington with whom her daughter had an &#8220;issue&#8221; &#8212; and whether to bring that issue to authorities.
The Daily Beast says all ten organizations refused comment.
&#8220;The Daily Beast contacted 10 top national pro-women organizations for this story, including Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the National Organization for Women,&#8221; the outlet reported Wednesday. &#8220;Most organizations did not respond to a detailed request for comment about the allegation by Tara Reade, a former staff assistant in Biden’s Senate office who has accused the former vice president of forcibly penetrating her with his fingers in the early 1990s. Others replied and did not provide a statement.&#8221;
&#8220;One prominent women’s political group cited a scheduling conflict and asked to be kept &#8216;in mind for other opportunities!&#8217; When pressed if the following day would work better, an associate said it would not, citing another scheduling conflict,&#8221; the Daily Beast continued.
The outlet labeled the incident a &#8220;near-total lack of acknowledgement.&#8221;
The code of silence extends to Biden&#8217;s slate of potential running mates. The <a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdemocrats-react-to-biden-accusations-with-pleas-for-an-explanation--or-silence%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fb07ff9da-8967-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7CSGuest%40gop.com%7C4494aa8ca5ac4ea1355308d7ec568c3e%7C4a082c81950a410d9618462a9c74d6ae%7C1%7C0%7C637237728769026688&amp;sdata=2uwkjdSn04nxmgAF0xdzsWVNR7P3wpd%2F5Dy8LhJxA6E%3D&amp;reserved=0">Washington Post</a> reports that despite several recent appearances on network news programs, neither Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), nor Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) have commented on Reade&#8217;s allegations.
Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW, and Emily&#8217;s List were all actively involved in anti-Kavanaugh efforts and held near-constant protests outside of the U.S. Capitol, and in <a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/organizations-host-vigil-for-sexual-assault-survivors-protest-against-kavanaugh/103-600978753">a number of state capitals</a>, during Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation hearings. Planned Parenthood was one of the primary sponsors behind the final &#8220;Cancel Kavanaugh&#8221; protest that drew out celebrities like Amy Schumer and Whoopi Goldberg, among thousands of other demonstrators.
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Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights have partnered with an abortion rights law firm to sue the state of Texas after Republican governor Greg Abbott declared abortion services &#8220;non-essential&#8221; amid the coronavirus crisis, forcing the nation&#8217;s largest abortion provider to shutter its doors.
Abbott issued the ban, Fox News reports, to protect the state&#8217;s supply of emergency medical equipment and personal protective gear &#8220;after warnings from health care professionals that patients sick with the coronavirus might overwhelm hospital capacity and deplete supplies, such as personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses.&#8221;
The governor implored health care providers like Planned Parenthood to postpone any procedures that are not medically necessary and donate their medical supplies to doctors and hospitals treating an influx of coronavirus patients.
Planned Parenthood, however, does not believe abortions are &#8220;non-essential&#8221; services and, Wednesday night, announced in an email to supporters that it would be suing governor Abbott to continue its practice statewide.
&#8220;Gov. Abbott and anti-abortion activists nationwide are forcing a legal and political fight in the middle of a public health crisis,&#8221; Planned Parenthood&#8217;s acting president said in her letter. &#8220;Elected leaders are expending valuable time and resources exploiting a global pandemic to score political points instead of rallying to respond to this crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;Abortion care is time-sensitive and essential health care that has a profound impact on a person’s health and life, which is why it is protected as a constitutional right. Texas is abusing the state’s emergency powers and we are filing suit today to stop it,&#8221; added the Center for Reproductive Rights&#8217; own president.
The suit demands a restraining order be put in place against Abbott&#8217;s directive, and argues that Planned Parenthood uses only minimal personal protective equipment. The group claims that Abbott is &#8220;singling abortion providers and their patients out for differential treatment from providers of other medical services and their patients,&#8221; even though Abbott&#8217;s ban applies to all ambulatory surgical centers statewide.
Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive rights also claim Texas&#8217;s directive violates the 14th Amendment, because it restricts access to a constitutionally protected activity.
The abortion provider defended its lawsuit in a second fundraising email, suggesting that Planned Parenthood is somehow on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus: “Planned Parenthood doctors, nurses, cleaning staff, counselors, and administrators do so much, from reassuring a scared patient to providing expert care without judgment. And right now, they’re putting their health and lives at risk to ensure patients get the information and care they need.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he finds Planned Parenthood&#8217;s commitment to abortion in the face of a national pandemic &#8220;unconscionable&#8221; and says he will defend the state&#8217;s decision to shut down abortion services.
&#8220;It is unconscionable that abortion providers are fighting against the health of Texans and withholding desperately needed supplies and personal protective equipment in favor of a procedure that they refer to as a ‘choice,'&#8221; Paxton said on social media in response to Planned Parenthood&#8217;s announcement. &#8220;My office will tirelessly defend Governor Abbott’s Order to ensure that necessary supplies reach the medical professionals combating this national health crisis.&#8221;

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On Friday, March 20, the Ohio Attorney General’s office <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/assets/pdf/OH34675321.pdf?vcrmeid=6saFsKqA30uopb10lVbo1w&amp;vcrmiid=KLWddqIr60CjfOaBq0B90Q">issued a letter</a> to Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio’s Cincinnati Surgery Center and <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/assets/pdf/OH34659321.pdf">another</a> to the Women’s Med Center in Dayton that pointed out that the non-essential and or elective surgeries and procedures utilizing personal protective equipment the two organizations were continuing to perform must be canceled.
But as the pro-life organization <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/ohio-ag-facilities-halt-elective-abortions/">Live Action</a> pointed out, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio’s Cincinnati Surgery Center thumbed its nose at the state, writing on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ppswo/photos/rpp.45323637297/10158108317382298/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook page</a> the very next day that it was “complying” with the order, but added, “Under that order, Planned Parenthood can still continue providing essential procedures, including surgical abortion … Our doors remain open.”
In the letter to Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio, Attorney General Dave Yost’s office had written:
<blockquote>On March 17, 2020, the Ohio Department of Health issued an order pursuant to the Department’s powers under R.C. 3701.13. That order (attached) cancelled all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures utilizing personal protective equipment (“PPE”) as of 5:00 p.m. on March 18, 2020. The order was issued, in part, to preserve PPE for health care providers who are battling the COVID-19 pandemic that is spreading in our state and also to preserve critical hospital capacity and resources.
The Ohio Department of Health has received a complaint that your facility has been performing or continues to offer to perform surgical abortions, which necessarily involve the use of PPE. On behalf of the Department, you and your facility are ordered to immediately stop performing non-essential and elective surgical abortions. Non-essential surgical abortions are those that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient. The Department of Health has outlined criteria to consider when determining whether a procedure is essential (see attached order). If you or your facility do not immediately stop performing non-essential or elective surgical abortions in compliance with the attached order, the Department of Health will take all appropriate measures.
This is an unprecedented time in the state’s history and everyone must do their part to help stop the spread of this disease.</blockquote>
LiveAction noted, “According to <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/03/21/ohio-abortion-clinics-ordered-closed-yost-under-health-directors-order/2891100001/">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, one abortion facility spokeswoman whom the news outlet contacted &#8216;pointed to a statement from a consortium of gynecological groups saying clinics should remain open,’ disregarding the state of Ohio’s order.”
Ohio Right to Life president Michael Gonidakis wrote to Ohio Planned Parenthood President Iris Harvey, “By performing surgical abortions, your company is putting the health and safety of all Ohioans in danger. Your current noncompliance will undoubtedly contribute to the spread of COVID-19 and put the lives of first responders, nurses and doctors in danger.”
As Live Action noted, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently stated in a <a href="https://aaplog.org/press-release-aaplog-statement-on-acog-abortion-agenda-during-covid-19-pandemic/">press release</a>:
<blockquote>Continuing to perform elective abortions during a pandemic is medically irresponsible. Abortions use up much needed resources such as masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment. The practice also potentially generates more patients to be seen in already overburdened emergency rooms &#8230; Uterine perforation and hemorrhage can occur with surgical abortions. Because most abortion providers do not manage their own complications, instead instructing women to go to an ER if they have problems, emergency rooms who are already struggling to keep up with the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to need to provide care to these women.</blockquote>

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Ohio Planned Parenthood Ignores State Order Banning Elective Surgical Abortions During Coronavirus Crisis

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A registered nurse who works at Planned Parenthood in New York boasts in a published article that she is “proud to be an abortion provider” and works “with a smile.”
Sunoz Soroosh, who noted her article was published on National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers, writes in <a href="https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/10/im-a-proud-abortion-provider-heres-why/">Rewire</a>, “Every day, I walk through the doors of the Planned Parenthood health center where I work with a smile, often singing along to a song playing on my headphones. Many find this surprising considering there are usually anti-abortion protesters outside the health center taunting me and my patients or trying to convince me to ‘find a better job.’ They fail to realize I’m proud to be an abortion provider who puts patients first.”
Soroosh posits that her work has given her “clinical skills to pursue a higher education” as well as “the confidence to support patients during a deeply personal experience.”
After opining, “Abortion is health care, and health care is a fundamental human right that needs to be accessible for everyone,” Soroosh segues to claiming racism and economic inequalities “block people from getting vital health care—including safe, legal abortion care.”
She continues, “Women, especially women of color, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people, suffer the most from these systemic injustices that are exacerbated by lawmakers who oppose abortion rights.”
Then she launches into an attack on the Trump administration:
<blockquote>Unfortunately, the Trump administration, through its domestic &#8220;gag rule,&#8221; has forced health-care providers to stop offering a full range of reproductive health options if they are to continue receiving Title X family planning funding. That means Title X recipients can’t refer patients for abortion care even if that’s the option they want.</blockquote>
Soroosh writes, “People must have the freedom to decide on their own if, when, and with whom to have a family, without interference from politicians or anti-abortion extremists fixated on stripping people of their bodily autonomy. I trust my patients to make their own sexual and reproductive health-care decisions, and in return, they trust me to be honest and deliver care with dignity and respect. I will never cower from my vow to my patients or my community.”
She concludes, “Being an abortion provider is more than a job for me. It’s a deeply personal commitment to helping people prioritize their health care needs and determine the future they want. Providers are here, protecting the lives and health of millions of people and their families—and we will be here for generations to come.”
As <a href="https://www.heritage.org/life/commentary/planned-parenthoods-annual-report-out-heres-what-you-need-know">The Heritage Foundation</a> noted in January 2019 following Planned Parenthood&#8217;s annual <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/80/d7/80d7d7c7-977c-4036-9c61-b3801741b441/190118-annualreport18-p01.pdf" data-external="yes">report</a> covering 2017-2018:
<blockquote>Planned Parenthood performed 332,757 abortions during the reported year, the most the abortion giant has reported since 2011-2012. In contrast, non-abortion services have declined significantly. Planned Parenthood reported a decrease in the provision of various services in 2017-2018, including:</blockquote>
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<li>570,444 breast exams and pap tests, down from 617,677 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>614,361 cancer screenings and prevention procedures, down from 660,777 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>216,722 well-woman exams, down from 235,355 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>2,620,867 provisions of birth control information and services, down from 2,701,866 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>2,831 adoption referrals, down from 3,889 in 2016-2017.</li>
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Nurse Who Works At Planned Parenthood: I ‘Work With A Smile’

On Monday, the city council of Spokane, Washington, passed an ordinance permitting police to cite pro-life protesters who have been singing and praying outside a Spokane Planned Parenthood for violating noise restrictions.
Prompted by the council’s 6-1 vote in favor the the ordinance, which was introduced by the council’s Lori Kinnear, Students For Life in America (SFLA) issued a <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/03/04/spokane-city-council-passes-ordinance-to-silence-pro-life-christians/">furious statement</a> reading in part:
<blockquote>Kinnear previously had asked <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/02/18/city-councilwoman-tries-to-get-police-to-shut-up-pro-lifers/">the police to intervene</a> to stop the pro-lifers, but also bizarrely claimed the ordinance had nothing to do with abortion, but was about <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/02/14/pro-choice-councilwoman-wants-to-stop-pro-lifers-from-publicly-praying-outside-abortion-facilities/">protecting access to all healthcare facilities</a> (again we ask, were a lot of people protesting outside a dental surgeon’s office? We think not). <a href="https://www.khq.com/news/spokane-city-council-votes-yes-on-noise-ordinance-that-aims/article_99e5e8aa-5d08-11ea-88a1-93acbf43764e.html">Councilwoman Karen Stratton</a> said that “noise is a weapon, words is a weapon,” in case you still had any doubts that the Spokane City Council missed their First Amendment lessons in grade school.</blockquote>
Karlie Lodjic, the Washington Regional Coordinator for SFLA, said bitingly, “This ordinance directly targets pro-lifers in Spokane. We know that this is about one thing; making it harder for people to hear the truth about abortion and what happens inside abortion facilities every day. As Millennials and Gen Z continue to be more pro-life than generations before them, pro-choice politicians are looking to weaponize the law against pro-lifers. This is a clear and direct assault on the First Amendment.”
Protest Planned Parenthood Spokane <a href="https://www.facebook.com/protestppspokane/">added</a>, “This is how we fight our battles outside of Planned Parenthood and in Spokane City Council Chambers. The City Council has labeled us Christians as violent terrorists and our speech as violent hate speech. The City Council sides with Planned Parenthood as they murder 1,000,000 babies a year but those of us standing for the babies and the moms who are hurt are the terrorists.”
<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/mar/02/city-adopts-law-to-keep-the-noise-down-during-plan/">The Spokesman-Review</a> reported that Stratton stated, “All we’re asking is that you keep the noise down to a reasonable level. Councilwoman Kate Burke added, “It’s not about religion, it’s not about freedom of speech, it’s about health care and access to the clinic.”
The Spokesman-Review continued, “Planned Parenthood has said the demonstrations can be heard through its walls and interfere with the services it provides to patients, which include abortion but also STD and cancer screening, pregnancy testing and birth control. Members of the Church of Planned Parenthood believe their activities are protected by freedom of speech. They claimed that their amplified gatherings are not intended to disrupt the health clinic’s operations.”
The Spokesman-Review noted, “The Church at Planned Parenthood (TCAPP) is the most visible of the groups that regularly protest the Indiana Avenue clinic, but representatives for the nonprofit note that various anti-abortion activists demonstrate at different times.”
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office said that to violate Washington state law, the noise must “be unreasonable to an ordinary person seeking health services.”
The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=41873275045&amp;story_fbid=10163153088695046">Center for Justice</a> claimed on Facebook that the Spokane Police Department was indifferent to the needs of clients visiting Planned Parenthood, writing, “To date, the Spokane Police have demonstrated through its officers’ actions that SPD has no desire to hold TCAPP and its members accountable for violations of the noise ordinance … At the core of the current controversy, however, is SPD’s apparent indifference to the disruption inside a health clinic and its deliberate non-enforcement of the noise ordinance.”
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On January 22, 1973, Americans woke up to a different republic. At the will of seven unelected justices, Roe v. Wade made dramatically expanded abortion access both the policy and the law for our entire country. The opinion was an alarm bell, a warning that the moral dimension of our country had been irrevocably altered and would continue to change unless something stopped it. Speaking conservatively, 61 million babies have since been killed under this regime.
Every year since, pro-life Americans have come to Washington to express their hope and defiance at the March for Life. Two generations of pro-lifers have bent the arc of their lives toward undoing the injustice of abortion. I’m proud to be among them and to work for the most pro-life president in history. As pro-lifers gather in Washington once again in the fourth year of the president’s first term, it is worth taking stock of how President Trump has advanced the cause of life.
By any fair reckoning, we are in a golden chapter for our movement. President Trump has pushed the boundaries of the art of the possible further than ever. His appointment of constitutionally faithful jurists — 187 federal judges, including two associate justices of the Supreme Court, for overall over a fifth of all federal judgeships — will arrest the Left’s hold on the courts. One in four federal circuit court judges today have been appointed by President Trump.
Within weeks of taking office, President Trump did not just reinstate the Mexico City Policy to stop foreign aid from subsidizing organizations that perform abortions; he went even further, applying the policy to more funding streams and more foreign aid activities than has any other president. Last September, at the opening of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, he announced, “Global bureaucrats have no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to protect innocent life,” making it clear to the world that our support for the sanctity of life doesn’t stop at the water’s edge.
President Trump prohibited Title X grantees from referring patients for elective abortions and prevented their physical co-location with abortion providers. As a result, Planned Parenthood quit the program, cutting off its access to hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding. He issued a robust conscience rule in order to ensure, among other things, that those who care for us when we are ill are not forced to perform or encourage abortion. Moreover, the president has just finalized a rule to stop insurers from quietly billing taxpayers for abortion services, ending an Obamacare loophole that left pro-life taxpayers unwitting accomplices to the violation of their conscience. He has also restricted the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions in government-funded medical research.
But the battle is not over. Policies like the Hyde Amendment, a bipartisan provision that has prevented federal funds from paying for abortion for more than four decades, are now suddenly under unprecedented attack. In the yearly funding process, we fought off attempts to overturn our administrative successes, and it was only through the president’s staunch opposition and the unwavering work of the life movement that we prevailed.
The urgency of our labors is often informed by the texture of our own lives. My daughter, Porter, suffers from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that shortens lives and requires expensive care. According to a Kaiser Permanente report, 87% of babies diagnosed with cystic fibrosis before birth are tragically aborted. These children are robbed of their lives and their parents miss out on the daily joy of loving their children, as we gratefully experience every day with Porter. Her life is a battle, but it is a glorious one, just like any other child growing up. So it is with our movement.
There is much work to be done to protect these gains and pursue others. President Trump will keep fighting in the months and years ahead for the cause of life and freedom for all Americans. And I am heartened to know that the president’s efforts will be joined by the hundreds of thousands of Americans from all walks of life who come each year in the cold to stand up and fight for our nation’s most vulnerable individuals, the unborn.
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Russ Vought is acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Follow him on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/russvought45">@RussVought45</a>.

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Abortion provider (and corporate welfare recipient) Planned Parenthood is committing $45 million to helping Democrats get elected in 2020, the group announced Friday, and launching a massive new effort called &#8220;We Decide 2020&#8221; to help fans of &#8220;reproductive choice&#8221; win or keep elected office.
The &#8220;stakes have never been higher,&#8221; Planned Parenthood&#8217;s website whines. &#8220;More than three-fourths of voters say abortion should remain safe and legal. There is no state in which banning abortion is popular. But anti-abortion politicians continue to try to undermine our rights and our access to reproductive health care, putting the ability of many people to obtain birth control, safe and legal abortion, and accurate sexual education in question — yet again.&#8221;
&#8220;We decide who our leaders are. We decide our future,&#8221; the website for &#8220;We Decide 2020&#8221; says. &#8220;At the ballot box this year, we — not out-of-touch politicians — decide what we do with our own bodies.&#8221;
The group is focusing its efforts on swing and battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Carolina, and is pressing its fans to register to vote, pledge to cast a ballot, and spread the word about &#8220;out-of-touch&#8221; candidates using Planned Parenthoods helpful &#8212; and not-at-all-biased &#8212; &#8220;candidate scorecard&#8221; to their friends and family.
&#8220;[The Trump Administration} has managed to undo so much over the last three years,&#8221; Planned Parenthood Vice President Jenny Lawson said in a statement to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-parenthood-45-million-we-decide-2020-elections-investment-today/">CBS News</a>. &#8220;The fact that this summer the Supreme Court might gut Roe v. Wade is an indicator of their intention and they&#8217;ve never been so bold.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democratic candidates collectively have the boldest reproductive rights policies we&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Lawson added. &#8220;Every major candidate in the 2020 elections, except for Donald Trump, has spoken out against dangerous abortion bans and many of them have actually introduced real plans to protect the reproductive rights in this country.&#8221;
Planned Parenthood has a right to be scared. Although they claim that fully 75% of voters support abortion, the number declines markedly when there are details added to the question. Many Americans support common-sense restrictions on the brutal procedure, and fewer than a quarter of Americans support late-term abortion.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the heat has been on abortion activists in the states. At least 12 states have passed sweeping abortion restrictions, including outright bans (those bans are now under litigation).
The abortion provider has also lost at least one source of Federal revenue. Last August, the Trump Administration gave Planned Parenthood a choice to stop providing abortions or risk losing their funding under Title X. They chose to pull out of the Federal program, losing $60 million in government money in the process. Of course, they pleaded poverty, begging supporters to make up what Trump cruelly denied them.
Friday, however, Planned Parenthood showed its hand, pledging nearly that amount of money to abortion-friendly candidates in Federal and state elections. The organization, of course, claims the money comes from its political action arm &#8212; a different entity than Planned Parenthood&#8217;s clinic operation, but the money is fungible.
Senator Ted Cruz had one of the best responses to the news, suggesting, on Twitter, that perhaps the<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1218051917638750209"> announcement meant the abortion provider</a> could forgo even more of its Federal funding.

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Planned Parenthood Commits $45 Million To Democrats Running In 2020

On Thursday night, Daily Wire Senior Editor Ashe Schow joined The Heritage Foundation’s Charmaine Yoest on EWTN’s “Pro-Life Weekly” with host Catherine Hadro to discuss Planned Parenthood’s annual report regarding its services and organization.
Hadro opened the segment by explaining that Planned Parenthood performed 13,000 more abortions in 2019 than in 2018, for a total of 345,672 abortions, for an increase of 3.88% over 2018. These staggering numbers caused Yoest to refer to Planned Parenthood as “Abortion, Inc.” Schow noted that while the organization increased the number of abortions it performed, all other major services actually declined.
“As abortions go up for Planned Parenthood, all of their other services that they like to saying, ‘no we’re not just [about] abortion,’ have gone down,” Schow said, citing numbers from the report <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/06/planned-parenthood-annual-report-shows-it-killed-345672-babies-in-abortions-more-than-ever-before/">and LifeNews</a>. “You’ve got contraception down 2%, pap smears and tests down 7%, breast exams down 11%, cancer screenings down 8%. Prenatal care? Down 68% since 2010, and to put that in perspective, for last year, Planned Parenthood killed 35 babies for every one woman it helped with prenatal care. Adoption referrals down year over year and again, killed 80 babies for every one adoption referral.”
Many of the services listed by Schow had dropped, but were still provided at a higher rate than abortions. Contraception services, for example, dropped 2% to 2,556,413 in 2018, but far outpaced the nearly 350,000 abortions provided by the organization.
Schow also discussed the fact that Planned Parenthood’s annual report completely glossed over the fact that it underwent a leadership crisis in 2019 after firing Dr. Leana Wen because she tried to get the organization to focus on more than just abortion.
“She was trying to get the organization to actually focus on women’s health and other things. She tried talking to pro-life groups and people who weren’t necessarily for abortion but didn’t like medical intrusion in medical health,” Schow said. “She wanted more services for maybe mental health and addiction but within Planned Parenthood it was just, ‘no, abortion’s our thing [and] we’re sticking to it.’”
Schow also bemoaned the constant messaging surrounding abortions, suggesting women can only succeed if they abort their child.
“People know: ‘If I need an abortion, I can go to Planned Parenthood.’ And it says a whole lot about the culture. You’ve got Democrats and progressives just constantly – just recently at the Golden Globes, you had a pregnant Michelle Williams saying the only reason she was able to accept this award was because she aborted a child,” Schow said. “You’ve got this constant messaging to women that if they have a child, their life is over and they can never succeed. And it’s working, it’s clearly working. Abortions are going up even though polls show Americans don’t agree with abortion. By and large, Americans want it at least limited to just the first trimester, and yet you have all this messaging that you should have an abortion in order to succeed in life.
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WATCH: Schow On ‘Pro-Life Weekly’: As Abortions Rose At Planned Parenthood, All Other Major Services Declined

Planned Parenthood is now reporting record-high numbers of abortions nationwide.
&#8220;Planned Parenthood reported a record-high number of abortions and government funding for 2018-2019, despite encountering a wave of Republican-led measures designed to restrict resources and access to the controversial procedure,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-record-abortions-government-funding">Fox News</a>.
The organization&#8217;s <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/2e/da/2eda3f50-82aa-4ddb-acce-c2854c4ea80b/2018-2019_annual_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">annual report</a> released on Monday showed that Planned Parenthood received a whopping $617 million in taxpayer funds for the fiscal year ending in June 2018 — a full 9% increase from the previous year and representing 37% of its overall organizational funding. Those funds could decline with the next fiscal year, given the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to strip Planned Parenthood with &#8220;executive-level funding for clinics that refer clients for abortion.&#8221;
Acting Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson said in the report that the organization has been forced out of government-funded programs due to &#8220;unethical&#8221; gag rules on referring women for abortions.
&#8220;We stand at an inflection point for reproductive health and rights,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Our opponents moved to dismantle our nation’s program for affordable birth control this year, forcing providers like Planned Parenthood out of the program with an unethical gag rule.&#8221;
Pro-life groups were largely frustrated with Planned Parenthood&#8217;s reported figures. Alison Centofante, director of external affairs for Live Action, said the record-high numbers only proves that Planned Parenthood needs to be stripped of its governmental funds.
&#8220;This abortion machine, which is responsible for the taking of more than 345,000 preborn lives this year — a number consistently on the rise — should be defunded immediately and shut down,&#8221; said Centofante.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-record-abortions-government-funding">provided further background</a> on Planned Parenthood&#8217;s source of government funding, which goes beyond the federal and into state and local governments:
<blockquote>Other than through Congress, the group receives state and local grants in addition to money through Medicaid reimbursements. It also stands to receive a massive influx of cash if Democrats take the presidency and repeal the Hyde Amendment, a historically bipartisan measure that blocked federal funding for most abortions. A large sum of its money – $591.3 million – came from private contributions and bequests.
While some states have tried severing funding to the organization, they&#8217;ve faced legal challenges along the way. Over the past few years, Planned Parenthood has joined with groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge a veritable onslaught of pro-life measures throughout the U.S.</blockquote>
Speaking with Fox News, famed Planned Parenthood defector Abby Johnson, who has repeatedly accused the organization of treating abortion as a for-profit enterprise, said that Planned Parenthood has only ramped up its efforts.
&#8220;Planned Parenthood is laser-focused on promoting abortion over any other service,&#8221; Johnson told the outlet. &#8220;They now run abortion-only clinics in several cities and have given up any semblance of trying to hide behind &#8216;family planning.&#8217; They fired Dr. Wen because she wanted to provide more services to women than just abortion. Planned Parenthood is the nation&#8217;s largest abortion vendor and their annual report only solidifies that fact.&#8221;
Planned Parenthood has always maintained that abortion constitutes just 4% of the organization&#8217;s services. Pro-life advocates have countered that assertion, arguing that Planned Parenthood manipulates the statistics to conceal its profitability. As Lila Rose stated <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/what-you-need-to-know-about-planned-parenthood/">in a video with PragerU</a>:
<blockquote>They count every “discrete clinical interaction” as its own service. What is a “discrete clinical interaction”? Pretty much anything you do from the moment you walk into one of their clinics.
I’ll give you an example. Let’s say a woman comes into Planned Parenthood for one service—an abortion. Before providing an abortion, Planned Parenthood has to confirm that the woman is pregnant, right? So, they administer another service—a pregnancy test. That’s two services! Then, after the abortion, on your way out the door, they hand you a prescription. That’s three services!
And there are many other services provided during the abortion process that Planned Parenthood claims as “discrete clinical interactions.”</blockquote>

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