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Planned Parenthood Funding

The Real Costs of Politicians' Obsession With Reproductive Rights

Toni Panetta | Posted 08.23.2011 | Denver
Toni Panetta

The GOP's anti-abortion, anti-birth control contingent is all too willing to sell out America's women and their families in their quest to out-pro-life each other.

Planned Parenthood Stops Seeing Medicaid Patients In Indiana

AP | RICK CALLAHAN | Posted 08.21.2011 | Politics

INDIANAPOLIS — Thousands of low-income Planned Parenthood of Indiana patients were left fending for themselves Tuesday to pay for birth control,...

Laura Bassett

Wisconsin Set To Defund Planned Parenthood, Slash Family Planning

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.21.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is expected to sign a budget bill on Tuesday that eliminates state and federal funding from nine of the ...

Planned Parenthood May Take North Carolina To Court Over Funding Cut

Posted 08.16.2011 | Politics

By Jim Brumm WILMINGTON, North Carolina -– Planned Parenthood said on Thursday it is considering a legal challenge of North Carolina's decisi...

Laura Bassett

North Carolina GOP Overrides Veto, Axes Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.15.2011 | Politics

Republican state representatives in North Carolina voted to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of the state budget Wednesday morning, ensuring...

GOP Rep Pressed Over Medicare, Planned Parenthood At Town Hall

Patch.com | Posted 08.10.2011 | Politics

Facing an audience with a liberal bent, U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Hunterdon County) spent two hours fielding questions as part of a town hall meeting...

Laura Bassett

The Cost Of Defunding Indiana Planned Parenthood

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.08.2011 | Politics

As a federal judge considers whether to block the implementation of a recently-passed law that defunds Planned Parenthood of Indiana, more than 20,000...

Betrayal On Capitol Hill

Tony Campolo | Posted 07.25.2011 | Politics
Tony Campolo

In exchange for getting support for Planned Parenthood from the Republicans, the Democrats were more than ready to betray the poor people they claim to represent.

Laura Bassett

Unintended Pregnancies Cost Taxpayers $11 Billion A Year: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.24.2011 | Politics

During a recent debate over a bill that would make it necessary for women to buy separate, abortion-only insurance policies to cover the expensive pro...

Laura Bassett

Two More States Try To Pull Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.20.2011 | Politics

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

Laura Bassett

Indiana Planned Parenthood Sees Flood Of Donations After Defunding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.16.2011 | Politics

Nicole Robbins, 31, is a single mother in Indianapolis, Indiana, who has been visiting Planned Parenthood for pap tests, breast exams and birth contro...

Laura Bassett

Kansas Anti-Abortion Bill Could Also Block Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.13.2011 | Politics

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

Planned Parenthood Funding: A Religion of Control versus A Religion of Life

Rev. Chuck Freeman | Posted 07.13.2011 | Religion
Rev. Chuck Freeman

This week Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a law that will cut off about $2 million of the $3 million Planned Parenthood of Indiana receives annually in federal funds and make Indiana the first state to prohibit the use of Medicaid at Planned Parenthood.

Laura Bassett

Planned Parenthood Defunding Law To Proceed In Indiana

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.11.2011 | Politics

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

Amanda Terkel

WATCH: Rick Santorum Ties Planned Parenthood To Racism, Eugenics Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.28.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Likely Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was a fervent crusader against abortion rights while in the Senate and told repor...

Laura Bassett

Indiana Set To Defund Planned Parenthood

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 06.27.2011 | Politics

The Indiana state legislature is on the verge of becoming the first state to block Medicaid reimbursements for low-income patients seeking basic healt...

Laura Bassett

Anti-Abortion Movement Targets Black Women In Latest Efforts

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 06.22.2011 | Politics

On March 29, Texas-based anti-abortion group Life Always launched a billboard campaign on the South Side of Chicago that features a picture of Preside...

WATCH: Stewart Rips Sen. Kyl For Lying About Planned Parenthood

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 06.12.2011 | Comedy

On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart picked up where he left off last Thursday: the (narrowly avoided) government shutdown over budget cuts. ...

Laura Bassett

What Exactly Is Title X Funding?

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 06.08.2011 | Politics

Title X, the only federal grant program dedicated solely to family planning and reproductive health services for low-income and uninsured patients, ha...

Jason Linkins

Shutdown Looms Over Tiny Sliver Of Planned Parenthood's Activities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2011 | Politics

The entire government will shut down in just about ten hours unless Democrats agree to allow House Republicans to hurl angry birds at every Planned Parenthood facility in America.

My Catholic Conscience: Doing The Right Thing For Women

Jon O'Brien | Posted 06.08.2011 | Religion
Jon O'Brien

As Catholics and as citizens, we must oppose the move to de-fund Planned Parenthood and stand up for our rights and freedom to follow our own consciences on these personal issues.

A Budget Proposal to Make Lives Shorter, Harder and Unhealthier

Carolyn Maloney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Carolyn Maloney

The Republicans have proposed a plan that will change the daily lives of millions of women and children for the worse. And the hard cruelty of the cuts spans all ages, starting in the womb.

Laura Bassett

WATCH: Anti-Abortion Rights Group Targets Planned Parenthood In New Ad Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.29.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List launched on Tuesday a television ad campaign targeting Planned Parenthood, whose fe...

We Cannot Go At It Alone

Rep. Karen Bass | Posted 05.28.2011 | Politics
Rep. Karen Bass

Since 1945, the UN has been the vehicle through which we ensure national sovereignty, democracy and human rights. Yet, the GOP seems determined to withdraw the U.S. from its obligations to the UN.

Laura Bassett

Why The Fight Over Planned Parenthood Is About More Than Abortion

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

As a teenager growing up in small-town Indiana, Elizabeth Miles didn't know that the local Planned Parenthood offered affordable contraception and oth...