Stories tagged with: planned parenthood

• New rule to handcuff states on Planned Parenthood

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, September 12, 2016 (8 years ago)

  "This is merely a move of retribution against those who have called to keep abortion providers accountable."

  -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Sept. 7 a proposed rule that would effectively prevent states from prohibiting Title X funds for abortion providers.

  The proposed rule includes the country's No. 1 abortion chain, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). The federal government provides funds for family planning and preventive health services to states through the Title X program. Read More

• Critics resist Planned Parenthood-prompted bill

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, September 02, 2016 (8 years ago)

  "This proposed legislation is a transparent attempt to retaliate on behalf of Planned Parenthood."-- Russell Moore

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP) -- The California legislature has advanced Planned Parenthood-instigated legislation that further penalizes the efforts of whistleblowers in a move resisted by both pro-life and liberal, civil-liberties advocates.

  The California Senate approved an amended bill Aug. 31 that increases the punishment for a person who distributes a conversation with a health-care worker -- such as a Planned Parenthood employee -- that he or she has secretly recorded. Prior to the amendment, the bill penalized even those who distributed a recording on a website or via social media or another means without participating in the ... Read More

• Felony charges dropped over baby body parts videos

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, July 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN

  HOUSTON (BP) -- All criminal charges have been dismissed against two investigators who posed as procurers of aborted baby body parts in undercover videos of interactions with Planned Parenthood executives.

  The Harris County District Attorney's office in Houston dropped charges today (July 26) against Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden and his CMP coworker Sandra Merritt, who had sought to show in secretly recorded videos that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from the sale of aborted baby tissue. Read More

• Planned Parenthood videos' impact at 1-year mark

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, July 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Planned Parenthood remains a target of Capitol Hill investigation but retains its federal funding a year after undercover video first revealed the abortion giant's trade in baby body parts.

  A special congressional panel issued an interim update Thursday (July 14) on the one-year anniversary of the release of the first video showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of organs from aborted children. The series of secretly recorded videos featured Planned Parenthood executives discussing their sale of fetal parts as well as their willingness to manipulate the abortion procedure to ... Read More

• House documents strike at abortion clinic claims

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, April 29, 2016 (8 years ago)

  "No culture can call itself humane while it tolerates such wickedness." -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Denials by Planned Parenthood and its allies of profiteering in the fetal tissue business have received a blow from congressional investigators.

  A House of Representatives panel offered evidence at an April 20 hearing that abortion clinics profit from trade in body parts of babies in apparent violation of federal law. The House Select Read More

• Most Americans unfazed by Planned Parenthood videos

  by Bob Smietana, posted Thursday, February 18, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- "What videos?" seems to be the reaction of most Americans to the series of undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood over the past six months, according to a new LifeWay Research survey.

  The videos made national headlines, provoked outrage in Congress and prompted investigations in about a dozen states. In showing undercover activists from the Center for Medical Progress discussing with Planned Parenthood officials possible payments for donated fetal remains, CMP contends the videos show Planned Parenthood illegally selling fetal remains. Planned Parenthood denies the claim. Read More

• Veto override on PPFA defunding fails in House

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, February 03, 2016 (8 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. House of Representatives failed Tuesday (Feb. 2) to override President Obama's veto of a bill that would have largely defunded Planned Parenthood, but pro-life advocates remained hopeful about future success. Read More

• Ky. governor's stance stymies Planned Parenthood

  by Kristen Lowry/Kentucky Today, posted Monday, February 01, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  File photo

  FRANKFORT, Ky. (BP) -- Planned Parenthood stopped performing abortions at a Louisville clinic after Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin objected to violations of state law.

  The organization had begun offering abortions during the week of Jan. 18 but when that news was made public on Thursday, Jan. 28, Bevin reacted harshly.

  "They are openly and knowingly operating an unlicensed abortion facility in clear violation of the law," the governor said in a statement. "We will use the full force of the commonwealth to ... Read More

• CMP activists indicted by Houston grand jury

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, January 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  HOUSTON (BP) -- The Houston grand jury charged with investigating Planned Parenthood in conjunction with undercover videos produced by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress has said the abortion provider broke no laws and instead has indicted CMP activists on two felony counts.

  In response to the indictments, a spokeswoman for Texas Right to Life told Baptist Press the grand jury process "reeks of something amiss." She said the case illustrates "a pattern" in the Harris County district attorney's office of failing to issue indictments in "abortion-related" ... Read More

• Producer defends ethics of Planned Parenthood videos

  by Sharayah Colter/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Friday, January 22, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Chad Bartlett

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The process used by the Center for Medical Progress to obtain undercover videos outing Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby parts was not morally wrong, CMP founder David Daleiden said at the Evangelicals for Life conference in Washington.

  Daleiden shared his convictions during the opening day of the Jan. 21-22 conference in an interview with Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family. Co-sponsored by the ERLC and Focus on the Family, Evangelicals for Life is being held as a pre-event to Saturday's annual March for Life in Washington. Read More