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Republican Sponsors Bill To Protect Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.09.2012

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Planned Parenthood does not have many GOP friends in Congress, but one rare, pro-choice Republican in the House of Representatives stuck his neck out ...

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Planned Parenthood President: Mitt Romney's Plan To 'Get Rid Of' Us Won't Balance Budget

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.14.2012

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Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said that she was traveling in Texas Tuesday when she read about Mitt Romn...

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Komen To Donors: Should We Apologize?

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.23.2012

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After Susan G. Komen for the Cure's controversial decision several weeks ago to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, and the subsequent reversal of that...

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Handel Breaks Her Silence

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.07.2012

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Karen Handel, the politically embattled former vice president of public affairs for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has broken her silence about her role...

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The Republican Plan for Planned Parenthood

Linda Flanagan | Posted 11.20.2011

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"Defund Planned Parenthood" has become a rallying cry of the right nationwide, and an ideological purity test, despite the fact that the United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the industrialized world.

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Kansas Planned Parenthood Ruling Could Protect It In Other States

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 10.01.2011

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A federal judge in Kansas issued another victory for Planned Parenthood on Monday, temporarily blocking the implementation of a law that would have de...

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Defunding Planned Parenthood Opposed By Most Americans: Polls

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Six states -- Texas, Indiana , North Carolina, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Kansas -- have defunded Planned Parenthood during the 2011 l...

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Birth Control May Become Free Under All Health Insurance Plans

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A highly influential panel of medical experts recommended to the U.S. Department of Health on Tuesday that all health insurance plans be...

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The State War On Planned Parenthood Heats Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.13.2011

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When 21-year old Christina Martel would renew her birth control prescription at Planned Parenthood, it was usually a relatively simple affair. But thi...

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Kansas Hires Koch Brothers' Attorneys To Defend Against Planned Parenthood

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.11.2011

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After passing a measure to defund Planned Parenthood over the non-issue of "taxpayer-funded abortions" last month, the state of Kansas has hired an ex...

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Planned Parenthood Defunded In New Hampshire

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.10.2011

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Until July 1, a low-income New Hampshire woman paid an average of $5 to fill a birth control pill prescription at any of the state's six Planned Paren...

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Texas GOP Takes Drastic Measures To Defund Planned Parenthood

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood without breaking any federal rules, Texas lawmakers passed two measures this month that will ...

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Planned Parenthood Lands Victory

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.27.2011

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Four states have passed legislation defunding Planned Parenthood so far this year, but the family planning provider is not going down without a fight....

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Two More States Try To Pull Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.20.2011

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Lawmakers in Wisconsin and Tennessee advanced legislation this week to pull state funding from Planned Parenthood because some of its clinics offer ab...

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Kansas Anti-Abortion Bill Could Also Block Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Kansas state legislature passed a bill early Friday morning that bans insurance companies from offering abortion coverage in their g...

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Planned Parenthood Defunding Law To Proceed In Indiana

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a new bill that cuts off government funding to Planned Parenthood stands. Planned Parenthood of ...

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Oklahoma GOP Aims At Planned Parenthood, Hits Low-Income Food Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In order to stop Planned Parenthood from being able to distribute them, lawmakers in Oklahoma are mulling legislation that would make nu...

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Indiana Bill Would Force Doctors To Tell Women That Having An Abortion May Lead To Breast Cancer

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of protesters rallied at the Indiana statehouse on Tuesday in opposition to restrictive abortion measures that would, among oth...

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Scott Walker's Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood, Targets Contraception Access

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) continues to wait out the state's Senate Democrats on his budget bill that would strip collective ...

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The Nationwide Effort To Restrict Reproductive Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As has been noted here and elsewhere, 2011 has seen a nationwide resurgence in the effort to curtail women's reproductive rights. I know! It's almost...

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